TIL the difference between a 90s comic fan and a modern one is wild
I swear back in 1993 my local shop was all guys arguing over who could pull a full run of McFarlane's Spawn the fastest, but last month I saw a kid spend 20 minutes debating the symbolism in a single panel of Saga, so what changed more, the fans or the books themselves?
Keep your hands off the table if you see someone getting heated, store management hates calling security over a book. Grab the issue yourself and ask the clerk to check the price or condition on their scanner, that usually breaks the tension. Once they see you're just a normal customer trying to buy something, they cool down fast.