text: All About Books ComicsnnYou I likennYour staff is just helpful enough to say Hey as I am walking in the front door or the back as this godless Briton often does but not so hell bent for sales that I cannot get to the New Comics wall without a short bushyhaired managerial figure latching himself to my leg and dryhumping with reckless abandon See Atomic Comics in MesannWhen you walk in the front door it smells like comic books Which is somehow appropriate because AABC is one of those nononsensetype specialty retailers like those stores you see in a strip mall in South Phoenix with the simple title of GUNS What is next A restaurant called FOOD But I digestnnAt first glance you might wonder what AABC has that other comic retailers do not Frankly as far as buying comics on a weektoweek basis goes nothing really But when it comes to old comics All About is all alone at the top of the heap nnYou see I have not lived in AZ all my life but someone was kind enough to inform me that in the s All About was not just one store They had a bajillion stores spread all across this absurdly large civic pitri dish we call Phoenix But when the comic book crash happened in the late s or whatever they narrowed down to just one location So ALL of the old back issues from seven or so stores had to be put into one warehouse Which is why if you ask for basically any old comic that is not Action Comics they will have itnnThe only complaint I can offer is the music selection It is just so wimpy and noncommittal The classic rock station REALLY What is the matter The Easy Listening station was not coming in clearly What a bunch of girls Not that I want to hear hardcore Gangsta Rap or Thrash Metal while I buy my XMen comics or anything but still