Comic Book Men series premiere
Stars: Walter Flanagan, Bryan Johnson, Ming Chen, Mike Zapcic & Kevin Smith
Network: AMC
I love comics. I like comic-book shops. And I like a number of Kevin Smith films. With that in mind, I was looking forward to Comic Book Men. I informed my wife that whatever other plans she had in mind for the weekend, I was reserving a two-hour block Sunday night for The Walking Dead “mid-season premiere” and the debut of Comic Book Men. I enjoyed the former, but the latter was a fiasco. Apparently designed to be Pawn Stars for frat boys, Comic Book Men perpetuates stereotypes about comics fans and speciality-shop staffers, and it fails to capitalize on the lead-in that was bound to boost its premiere viewership. I suppose one could argue it’s not incumbent on Smith and his cronies to act as ambassadors for the comic-book industry, but it is their job to be entertaining. In that regard, they failed.
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