The Las Vegas Review-Journal says a comics store run by a musician has closed after nearly a decade, though its owner will continue running a sales website:
Torpedo Comics, founded by System of a Down sticksman John Dolymayan, has ended its run of nearly a decade in a shopping center near Rainbow Avenue and Warm Springs Road.
[…] “I started selling in the early ’90s, because at 18 years old, it’s tough to go to your parents and say, ‘Can I have some money for comic books?’” Dolmayan told the Review-Journal before the store’s opening in May 2017. “Initially, I started off by losing a lot of money trying to sell books at conventions and stuff like that until I figured out how to do it. By the time System got signed (in the late ’90s), I was making $55,000-$60,000 a year. I took a huge pay cut to join System.”
While the Torpedo store has closed, the brand will continue to live online at torpedocomics.com.
Too bad, but what could’ve been made much clearer is that if merit’s plummeted, you can’t be surprised when store units lose money this way. Yet nobody in the liberal press wants to ask if poor quality has long been an issue, and probably never will.
And again, I really wish specialty retailers would make the switch from pamphlets to paperbacks.
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