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Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 01:17:20 No.5845782 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>5846046 >>5846135 >>5846531

Anyone know the name of a web comic about a guy and his friend who get into buying toys and selling them at conventions?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 03:12:21 No.5846046 Report

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>>5845782
No not really, i don't think a comic like that is out there.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 04:01:53 No.5846135 Report

Quoted By: >>5846683 >>5849499 >>5849570 >>5849581 >>5849610 >>5850745

>>5845782
>Anyone know the name of a web comic about a guy and his friend who get into buying toys and selling them at conventions?

http://www.thewebcomicfactory.com/comic/dealers-1-1998-was-the-year/

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 10:04:18 No.5846531 Report

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>>5845782
I remember this thread. good times. we had this last year, right?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 13:44:01 No.5846683 Report

Quoted By: >>5846702

>>5846135
Thanks man.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 14:06:57 No.5846702 Report

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>>5846683
It's a good read.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 14:09:38 No.5846705 Report

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Breaking Bad

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 14:16:55 No.5846721 Report

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>>5846531
yes

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 16:07:34 No.5846881 Report

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>>5846531
Yeah. Great comic though. This business never crowded out my job or destroyed a relationship but damned if the market collapse leading up to the end doesn't hit close to home.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 21:24:21 No.5847368 Report

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I read this comic after seeing the thread last year. I definitely enjoyed it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Aug 2016 00:54:40 No.5849494 Report

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>>5846881
>This business never crowded out my job or destroyed a relationship but damned if the market collapse leading up to the end doesn't hit close to home.
This. I have so many comics from the days before (and after) the Great Comic Book Crash, but the toy stuff is also a big nostalgia bomb.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Aug 2016 00:56:22 No.5849499 Report

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>>5846135
I love this. Can anyone recommend anything like it?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Aug 2016 01:19:51 No.5849547 Report

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>>5849499
Rusty Brown for you.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 11 Aug 2016 01:29:19 No.5849567 Report

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>collect toys
>i take them all out of the boxes

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Aug 2016 01:31:29 No.5849570 Report

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>>5846135

>Getting in to reselling toys
>In 1998

Oh god that poor bastard.

My dad and I were hardcore in to collection comics in the early 90s. I do my best to insulate him from the realities of that crash still.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Aug 2016 01:36:00 No.5849581 Report

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>>5846135
>Guy lies repeatedly to his girlfriend or wife or whatever about what he is doing
>What he is doing is spending lots of money and time on something he could be honest about

Oh man I am waiting for him to get shit on for being stupid.

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Anonymous Thu 11 Aug 2016 01:48:08 No.5849610 Report

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>>5846135

Does this end horribly? Im at the part where they finished going to their first convention and got fucked over on the stretch armstrong hulk, and the story feels like its going to go horribly for these guys.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Aug 2016 01:53:32 No.5849622 Report

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>>5849610
I'm ahead of you and it gets worse.

It's painfully accurate in many ways to the toy market, right down to guys who resell toys thinking they are tough and hating on customers hardcore.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Aug 2016 02:14:25 No.5849679 Report

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>>5849622

Ive read more into it and they are making decent money now and the wives still arent happy.

Im up to the part where they want to go to a big show in florida, and dont want to bring the wives because it would eat up all the profits, and I feel like its going to end badly.

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Anonymous Thu 11 Aug 2016 02:17:53 No.5849689 Report

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>>5849679
They make money, but hide it, and act like complete assholes. I'm not surprised the wives aren't happy.

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Anonymous Thu 11 Aug 2016 02:31:57 No.5849725 Report

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Why is Tamara such a cunt?

>wanda show sup to phantom menace premier dressed like Leia, all excited
>tamara shows up late and goes "its just a moooovie, who cares..."

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Anonymous Thu 11 Aug 2016 02:33:53 No.5849732 Report

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>>5849725
Tamara was never really interested in that stuff. She was exceptionally flexible of him in most all of this crap, while he was getting progressively more and more shitty about stuff.

Also, that whole deal about phantom menace toys blowing everyone out, accurate.

Holy shit the cons right after those hit were like hasbro vomited all over everything.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Aug 2016 02:41:07 No.5849750 Report

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>The dealers collude to price fix and keep new dealers out

Aw man, this is really common. The worst places have price fixing and no haggling agreements between dealers and you may as well stay home and just buy on ebay.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Aug 2016 02:49:01 No.5849768 Report

Quoted By: >>5858539

I collect shit and buy almost all my stuff online directly from places like Amiami, or Toys R Us because they usually have discounts on shit.

Actually walking into stores to buy shit is usually bad because scalpers clear stores out of anything good on delivery days and put it all up on their own Ebay stores.

I feel bad for people trying to run their own small toy shops.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Aug 2016 02:52:10 No.5849780 Report

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[spoiler:lit]I want a divorce. You should go to your parents place. You can stop by sometime and get your stuff. Im leaving for a few hours, please dont be here when i get back.[/spoiler:lit]

Bitch, how about Im staying right here, and if you dont like it you can leave.

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Anonymous Thu 11 Aug 2016 02:59:55 No.5849797 Report

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>tamara was cheating on him all along

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Aug 2016 04:32:16 No.5849969 Report

Quoted By: >>5849974 >>5850131 >>5850145 >>5850756

There's another comic about collecting toys you might like, but I think it's also about owning a comic book store but I'm not sure because I haven't read it in a long time, but it's called Shortpacked.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Aug 2016 04:35:26 No.5849974 Report

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>>5849969
If I recall, it turned in to feminist nonsense

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Aug 2016 07:03:25 No.5850131 Report

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>>5849969
That newspaper comic in webcomic form?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Aug 2016 07:19:33 No.5850145 Report

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>>5849969
last time i heard of shortpacked people were blasting it

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Aug 2016 18:07:52 No.5850745 Report

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>>5846135
Good read.
The relationship between him and his wife is so accurate.It reminds me my life a little. Wifes are hard to live.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Aug 2016 18:15:53 No.5850756 Report

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>>5849969
>recommending Shortpacked to anyone

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Aug 2016 15:28:32 No.5852348 Report

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Holy fuck I really liked this comic, just read through the whole thing this morning. Apart from toys, I collect some video games and I can relate so much to all the shit that was shown in the comics here. Dealers conspiring together, backstabbing, ripping off parents/little kids, poor speculation, and the eventual "crash" of the market (even though retro games aren't necessarily near a crash yet, imo) Any /vr/ bros here that can relate?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 16 Aug 2016 00:36:21 No.5858539 Report

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>>5849768
>I feel bad for people trying to run their own small toy shops.
Absolutely. If you don't mark up hot figures, scalpers clean you out and nobody will so much as look at the rest. That's directly at odds with how I envisioned running a toy store and I hate that I got caught up in that.

>>5850756
>>recommending Shortpacked to anyone
Shortpacked was actually OK until the SJW/self-loathing faggot side of Walky started to show through. Though how fast you saw it is up to interpretation...

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