The Midwest in Panels (Comic Shop Documentary 2015)
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- Опубликовано: 5 сен 2024
- Available finally to watch for free! Captain Logan and Vince travel the Midwest interviewing store owners and customers at ten different comic shops to gauge the climate of independent comic retail culture.
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Had this sitting in my watch later playlist since 2015, finally sat down and watched it today and kicked myself for taking so long. I'm nine years late in saying this, but you guys crushed this. A lot of great interviews with some wonderful insight. Every time Dominic was on screen I was entranced. What a presence that guy had. I was gutted when I saw the dedication at the end and that he'd passed so soon after his interview was recorded. I hope his family is doing well these days.
To those who produced this: thank you so much. I didn’t know this existed. I am Dominick’s sister in law. His son is missing Nick and has no video or recording of him or his voice. This will bring him so much joy.
I am so glad you found the documentary. We recorded this two months before he passed away and I was gutted to find out he was no longer with us. I spent three hours interviewing him. It was one of the profound experiences of my life. He had a real impact on me, my crew, and everyone I've shown the documentary to. He was filled with wisdom, sage advice, passion for his business and the comics medium, and good humor. His son is lucky to have had a father like that and I'm so sorry he lost him so soon.
@@Geekvolution he was all that and so much more. Adam is a good and compassionate young man just like his father. The part about him going to his son’s games was dead on. He was always there for him. He is turning 30 this year and another milestone where his father will not be there. We, his family, hope that this documentary will help with the loss he will always feel. Bless you!
I really loved watching this. I am 54 years old and go to my comic shop every week here in California. This was a Joy to watch. Thank you again for sharing this.
I was one of the supporters and made an "Unboxing" video. I enjoyed all the extras, especially the Trix/Lucky Charms incident in your hotel room. I just wish more of your trip to the Field of Dreams was in the movie.
This documentary was incredible. Very jealous of this trip. Very sorry to learn of Dominic's passing, he seemed like a great guy. I live in St. Louis, and go to Star Clippers regularly. They've changed location and ownership since this video, but the store still looks virtually the same. You guys also visited one in St Charles which is only 30 minutes from me. You have inspired me to go there!
I am Nick’s sister in law and Nick was great. He is truly missed.
Great job. Need more docs like this. 😁
I love this documentary. I watch it often.
This is great, guys. It's changed the way I view comics and the industry quite a bit. Man, I had an emotional reaction watching this. It really hit me in the right place. Thanks, Cap, Vince, and everyone else who worked on this. The Midwest in Panels is such a blessing to me.
Great doc! It would be cool to see a doc on "the other guys"; the ones with the hole-in-the-wall shops. The stores aren't always pretty, or slick, but some of these guys have been doing it for a long time. The oldest comics store in Oklahoma, The Comic Empire of Tulsa, is one of these. Great community, great atmosphere, and the owner is friendly and knowledgeable. There is a short doc of the Empire on RUclips.
Community is the key to this business
No one has no idea how happy I am to have seen this project :). Great film guys! Worth the watch!
You guys, this is one of the best documentaries I've ever seen. Excellent work!
honestly I have watched this at least 20 times. Makes me want to do something like this for my local shop Symbiotik Comics in Victoria, Tx. I love this documentary
Jeff Lemmons :)
I love re-watching this vid. Thank you!
Such a great documentary!! Thanks for sharing it on your channel!! When I found out you were making this project I was sad that I wasn´t going to be able to watch it (since I´m in another country with currency control), but I never thought you were going to show it here on Geekvolution!! You guys are pretty damn awesome :)
Rap at the end was sick!
I'm about to release my comic book conspiracy theory in this comment. I thought of this theory several years ago, which was before I started writing comic books. My theory was that the movie industry needed comics to create plots, and dialogue, and shots, etc, but they didn't want comics to be too popular, because they needed to harvest ideas from them, without losing market share to them. Again, just a theory. But I jumped into comic books anyway, because they really are the best medium. You get the speed of viewing like a movie, but with a production budget of a fraction of 1% of the movie budget. Plus the reader can flip back and forth and enjoy the book on their terms.
Awesome movie! Loved seeing all the different comic stores, make me appreciate mylocalstore even more.
Great job Jaymes and Vince. Was fun and informative to watch.
Didn't expect to find you here!
really enjoyable watch! gutted dominic postiglione passed, he seemed like a really nice guy in this doc
I am Nick’s sister in law, he was a great guy. He could make you feel so at home wherever you were. We miss him.
I loved the documentary. I'm surprised you decided to make it free.
Great documentary - very well put together, informative and fun. Was sad to read of the passing of Dominic, he had presence on screen and seemed like a lovely guy.
I am Dominic’s sister in law. He was a lovely man. He could make anyone feel like a good friend within minutes of meeting him.
Spectacular! Great job, Geekvolution.
Such a great documentary. You guys asked all of the questions I didn't know I wanted answers to. I have a greater respect for comic shops now. Do another one boys
Thanks for showing it online for us
Thanks a bunch Cap for generously uploading this. Can't wait to watch! :D
Awesome documentary. So glad you made this free. By the way, to the guy at 1:53:00, my local comic store is called Crit Hits.
I'm not a comic book reader myself. I have some respect for the medium i just personally can't get into them (i just enjoy this channel for the movie stuff primarily) but I've got to say that you guys have intrigued me with regards to the culture surrounding comic books. I wish that something that i can get into had a similar culture surrounding it.
Didn't even know this excited but what a great documentary
WOW! I'm so glad I watched this excellent documentary! A very interesting and entertaining look at comic book shops. Great Upload!
Great documentary, Cap! Very professionally done.
R.I.P. comic shops
Great documentary, you guys! Very informative and very entertaining all the way through! Now I wish I could visit all those comic book stores. lol I'm glad you guys could accomplish this project of yours. It was well worth the wait :)
That was REALLY well done. Thanks guys
Great documentary. Thank you
This is a great documentary. There aren't that many comic documentaries out there.
This was incredible to watch. It has a very Christopher Guest vibe, but it's an actual documentary. I feel like every interview was natural or off the cuff, just a couple of fellas shooting the shit. And everyone's passion shows through, from owner to customer( besides that one guy, he's kind of a bitter douche about the whole thing). I love to see everyone's business sense and how their personality/disposition affects their business and life. But seriously I appreciate the dissenting voice of the jackass and all, but he obviously never gave it everything if he's going around telling people "Don't open a comic book shop!". If you've had trying times in any business, but eventually saw the light through pure perseverance and putting the axe to the grindstone, you wouldn't ever tell anyone not to attempt it because of your own shortcomings. That shit is for failures, if you love it, you make it work.
We Love ComicBooks so much! This wine never ends.
How did I miss this when it was uploaded? It's fantastic.
Out of the park, guys
Very much loved your documentary. Excellent work!
I'm honored that you took the time to watch it and some of our other work lately, George. Means a lot, man.
Loved this documentary, gents. And was genuinely bummed when I found out Dominic had passed away!
He is greatly missed.
This was fantastic! Now I want to visit all of these stores myself lol
Great documentary dude 😀😀😀😀
This is great! I have been to most of these shops!
Home run!!!
this is a great film
this is best thing could ever watch
I loved this documentary before it was free 😜
amazing stuff, I've got to get to know my comic store guys better.
The Comic Relief seems pretty awesome. If I would open a store it would be similar as I also wouldn't want to open a gaming store. Also a big fan of the cabinets as my local store has a nice custom cabinet system too.
Another great comic book shop is Rainbow Sports in Sioux Falls South Dakota. It's a small store but big enough for old and new comics etc
I'm thinking the book that got him hooked was Fantastic Four Annual #9 or 10 since they both reprinted the Reed and Sue wedding from Annual #3?
Well done, this is excellent!
Great work! Man I am intimidated by that Dominick guy who owns the source even though he's in a video. You guys went to some cool comic shops, I wish there were some cool ones like those in my area. All the ones you went to presented themselves well and were clean. I've been to some (game stores in particular) that are in a bad part of town with staff that are dicks and risqué posters up all over the place. Those kind of places embarrass me to be a fan of comics or games.
word.
Nick, Dominick, was my brother-in-law. He would sit you down and you would be best of friends in five minutes. We miss him.
@@Mandcfrey Rest in peace, thank you for reminding me of this all these years later! How did you come across this documentary?
@@urmanascrewed I created a Remembrance Page for him and found the trailer for it. I then search for the actual documentary.
@@Mandcfrey That is amazing! I saw your other comment too. I'm glad you found this documentary.
Wow this is great
I would love to see a post covid update to this.
AWESOME!
1.48.58 Dark Horse's Lone Wolf & Cub individual volumes. Holy Shit!
These guys nailed it....freaking nailed it....MOOOOOORE COMIC DOCS PLEASE! Actually do a Go Fund Me......Id willingly support it....Thanks guys well done!
44:44 No way I'm letting that guy into my house to read me a comic book.
Free comic book day should do incentive variants lol
I'm always amazed when these people can remember the first comic book they read. I'd be as libel to remember the fist sandwich I ever ate.
Just an update. I live in Des Moines, and capes cafe is no longer there. They left about a month ago. They have said they will come back, but I havent heard anything else.
I'm really sorry to hear that :(
It's awesome that these comic shops are all independent. I know people think, "Wouldn't it be great if we also made money?" Yes, it would be great, for a while, until the whiff of profits caused someone to start a chain that steamrolled everyone. I'm not saying that to scare anyone, I'm just typing my own fear. I'm enjoying seeing these independent shops and hope they all last forever.
Elite comics guy seems like the right kind of angry. It seems like we have similar perspectives even about the phone thing, probably wouldn't get along then.
I have been into comics for a while but I live in the uk and options are limited and expensive, 4x what I see on American websites.
Pull-List is not the "life blood" of a store, it's more like people not showing up to pay for the comics a store was silly enough to keep buying even after a box is kept open and unpaid for going on weeks. **Pull-lists are a drain on a store, and turns the customer and store against each other, and so is pricing comics at the register**
Isnt the life blood of a comic shop by doing things that are not comic books, since if more than 50% of your store is devoted to comics then expect to fail? Or do you think people are stupid enough to still spend $5 on comics every Weds, knowing those books are going to end up discounted soon?
im from Nicaragua and we have no shops, so Digital is the way to go, i do buy in ebay or amazon, but thats hard to get them in Nicaragua after.
I will not let comics die
Port city comics is the best comic shop in my area Mobile Al
I need that Venkman shirt Vince, where did you get it?
Personally I love digging through boxes of back issues.
I really do believe that Marvel and Image are the new "Big 2" publishers.
What’s the best ambush bug run
I love comics that we make comics and made a comics
by the way, anyone know how the large gentleman died, think the name was Dominique? He didnt look that old, but he was overweight. But he had a stellar personality......im guessing complications from diabetes...
I just read this as he showed up... oh... to bad!
Heart attack. We miss him so much.
tip my cap to emerald comics in tampa
I miss my wife
When was this filmed? What year?
AFTA Comics 2014
Who is that dude at the end?
I recently ordered a reprint of Detective comics #38 the first appearance of Robin and Action comics #1 the first appearance of Superman I really love comics I Got into comics in January of this year I have Been collecting since of January of this year and I have over 120 now I am going to my local comic book store later I was at comic con back in October I Meet Kevin Conroy he let me talk to him and take a picture with him for free a couple weeks before comic con I Did a copy of Spider-Man 2099 #1 the first appearance of Spider-Man 2099 at my local comic book store they have 12 boxes of comics for $1.00 a piece I really hope to find a copy of Green lantern #1 the first appearance of Green lantern
Astro Kitty's!
YAWN!!!!
What's interesting is that all the comic owners have the same stereotypical view of comicbook stores, even though their store and all the stores they know are not "typical".