<DIV>Hmm... regarding your local shop's refusal to hold Solo 11 for you- it wasn't necessarily a lazy clerk; I worked at a large comic shop for a while, and you would not <STRONG>believe</STRONG> the number of clowns who ask you to set such-and-such aside for them (often tying up hundreds, occasionally literally <EM>thousands</EM> of dollars worth of merchandise, particularly when dealing with things like anime box sets or collectibles)... and then vanish, never to be seen again. If a comic has not sold within a short while of arrival, odds are it's not gonna sell (at least for the vast majority of them). There are ways around that- if you'd asked them to hold you a copy until closing time of the day it arrived, or something to that effect, odds are they would've said yes (particularly if you'd asked the manager or someone with authority- many of the lowly wage-slaves in any retail store simply don't have the authority for even such a trivial matter as
that).</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Of course, it's equally possible that the peon you spoke to was simply lazy and didn't feel like bestirring their chair-bound posterior to fetch something for a relatively minor sale. *shrug* It all depends on the shop.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Cheers,</DIV> <DIV>David Reinhardt</DIV><p> 
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