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Comic Geek Speak Podcast - The Best Comic Book Podcast

1349 - Super Show Updates/Let's Talk Shop with Wild Pig Comics

Comic Geek Speak Podcast - The Best Comic Book Podcast

Speakers of Geek

Comic Book, Comic Books, Superhero, Arts, Comic, Comicbook, Graphic Novel, Comics, Comicbooks, Arts & Entertainment

4.3668 Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2013

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

CGS hits the road! We travel to Wild Pig Comics in Kenilworth, NJ for their Grand Reopening Part II and stick around after closing to record. After some Super Show updates, we talk with Wild Pig owner Chris Eberle about the challenges of operating a comic shop today - how to get/keep customers, what books to order, what kind of in-store events to have and more. (1:16:31)

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0:00.0

This is Comic Geeks Speak, episode 1349, Super Show updates, and Let's Talk Shop with Wild Pig Comics.

0:08.5

Welcome to the show. I'm Brian Christman. I'm Chris Eberley. I'm Adam Murdo. And I'm Jamie D.

0:13.9

And we are on location. This is like on the road with CGS. At 14, South Michigan Avenue, Kenneworth, New Jersey, Wild Pig Comics were in the back of the store. Chris, thank you for having us. Comrades in arms, I am honored you were here. I've been wanting to do this for years, and to have you here now recording in our essentially finished store is a real thrill for me. Thank you. We are bathing in the afterglow of the re-reopening,

0:42.2

having re-reopen the store, enter our, exit our heroes.

0:46.4

I love that she used the word afterglow, by the way.

0:48.2

Thank you.

0:48.9

So hopefully the sound quality is fine because it's, I mean, I did bring the equipment,

0:53.5

but, you know, it's not like the studio where we have the absorbing things in the vault absorb the sound, like those foam things.

1:00.7

Yeah, that's what's called.

1:02.2

Plus, of course, you know, microphones are like stretched.

1:05.6

Everyone is holding a microphone except for me, so I'm going to do a little lounge act for us a little later.

1:10.2

I don't know.

1:10.6

I can do a whole Bill Murray thing.

1:13.4

Star Wars.

1:15.3

And synchronicity.

1:16.4

Oh, yeah, exactly.

1:19.0

So let's get the Super Show talk out of way.

1:22.8

First, we're going to talk about all about Wild Pigs.

1:24.8

Yeah, let's get that crap out of the way.

1:26.8

So as we record this so as we record this wild

1:28.2

as we record this super show is just two weeks away unbelievable i cannot believe it and sunday april

1:35.6

seven so as i've always said please go to c gs super show dot com for all the pertinent information

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