COMIC SHOP OF THE MONTH

By Sidra Roberts *

For this installment, we feature:

    Genesis Comics

1947 Gessner Dr.
Houston, Texas
713-464-1209

http://www.flash.net/~genecom/index.htm

Chris Abel does the Swipe of the Week.
Hello everyone, last month I was supposed to appear as guest writer of this series of articles. Well, as it turns out I am now your permanent local comic shop corespondent in the Houston Area. Now on to the real star of this month, Genesis Comics. You might have seen the owner, Chris Abel’s Swipe of the Week page on the web. Besides having a impressive web site, Chris has an great comic shop too.

Genesis Comics has a wide array of comics, comic related merchandise, games, and rental anime movies too. The second you walk in you can see the grand diversity of the merchandise. Boxes of back issues, trade paperbacks, and board games line one wall. While the opposite wall is lined with new arrivals.
The comics vary in topic, publisher, type, etc. and the trade paperbacks are composed of everything from archives to sourcebooks and to graphic novels. The amazing thing about the trade paperbacks and comic books is the diversity of selections. Magazines about specific genres of collecting are also sold at Genesis comics.

The games at Genesis Comics have even more diversity than the diversity of the comics and trade paperbacks. There are boxes full of gaming books and action/RPG modules. For the most part the gaming books are RPG’s (Role Playing Games). There is also a wide variety of board games. Some of the board games are based on books, television shows, or movies. A great deal of them though are original board games. Speaking of gaming every Saturday Genesis Comics has a Magic Gaming Night, where people can come and play some friendly games of Magic.

There is a large selection of anime movies that are available to rent at Genesis Comics. You have to be eighteen or older though or at least have parental permission. One video can be rented for two nights at the price of one and a half dollars American or three videos can be rented for two days at the price of four dollars American. I don’t know about you, but this sounds like a great deal to me.

Genesis Comics also has comic posters, comic T-shirts, and a few figurines. Posters include things like promo posters, and posters others of individual comic characters. I didn’t look fully through the T-shirts, but I did notice that there were some that some of the other comic shops don’t have. Figurines I did see were a couple Xena dolls and a few Kiss dolls.

Genesis Comics is an marvelous comic shop with a wide assortment of things to offer. Chris Abel is a very nice man, who makes every person who comes into Genesis Comics feel welcome. He and the rest of his staff are eager to help and very polite. If you haven’t visited his store or his website I recommend you do you are in for a treat.

* Editor's Note:

Sidra is a national Silver Key winner in the Scholastic Writing competition.

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