Comic Book Store (Open)

[rhett]

March 14, 2009

Rhett Butler was supposed to be teaching at his Archeology class at New York University today. However, today he just decided to let his students know that he had to take care of some family issues. Actually to be quite honest he didn’t need to take care of some family issues. He wanted to go to the book store and buy some new books. He was bored with reading the books that he was accustomed to. He needed to get himself new reading material. Perhaps even read up on some Forensic Anthropology books.

He didn’t know what he wanted to do with his money. Maybe he would buy a new science fiction book. He liked science fiction and comic books. He just wanted something to read that he hadn’t read yet. It kind of got boring reading the same books over and over again. It was that dull and lifeless. He wondered where he would end up today. There was a lot of book stores in New York and he knew he would end up at one. He just didn’t know which one actually.

Rhett ended up at a comic book store. It wasn’t something he expected. He thought that he would end up at a book store. Not a comic book store. Oh well He thought as he strode into the comic book store and looked around. Perhaps he could find something. He wondered if the new shipments came into today. That would be good. He browsed through the comic book store as he came across something that was of interest to him. He grabbed the issue of the 9th Wonders and skimmed through it.

[alexei]

Alexei had had a long week at work, staying late hours working with some of his colleagues on their latest project, finally managing to finish on Friday night, and he decided to take a day off for himself and go into New York for the day. He didn't have anything specific in mind, but Alexei was quite content just to wander, so to speak, around the city, just go wherever he felt like it. Alexei had paused next to a bench for a minute to write something down - he randomly thought of things that he didn't want to forget and he had to write them down - and then swung his backpack over the back of his wheelchair again, continuing down the sidewalk.

He paused outside of a comic book shop, glancing inside. He hadn't been inside a comic book shop for ages, but yes, he wasn't ashamed to admit that he liked reading comic books. He was a rocket scientist for Pete's sake. It's not like he could be any more of a nerd.

Alexei turned and went into the shop, absently going up and down the aisles, scanning the comic books for any that looked interesting. He was passing a tall, dark-haired man in the aisle, and he thought there was enough room for him to get by, but apparently there wasn't, as he felt one of his wheels accidentally roll over the tip of the man's shoe. Damn. It had been ages since Alexei had done that, accidentally or on purpose. He turned and glanced up at the guy. "Damn, I didn't mean to do that. Sorry about that, man."

[rhett]

Rhett was reading the 9th wonders and it seem very interesting. He wondered if he should by this comic book. It was talking about ordinary humans with abilities. It seemed like an interesting comic book almost like the X-Men series that Marvel had out. Rhett was a hardcore X-Men find and always enjoyed reading those comic books.

However, Rhett wanted a change and perhaps the comic book in his hand would give him the change he wanted. After all traveling different parallel universes and teaching Archeology was kind of lame and people needed to blow off steam once in a while and Rhett’s way was just read a comic book, no matter how geeky it made him.

“Jeho Fena” Rhett said in Czech with a bit of a thick Southern Accent. It seemed kind of weird, but that was the way he was. He had said son of a bitch in Czech. He tended to curse in different languages. Sure it got him odd looks, but he really didn’t care.

He looked down at the man who had ran over his shoe. “Sorry” He said in an apologetic tone “Didn’t mean to say son of bitch in Czech” He said when he noticed the man was disabled. He hoped the man didn't get mad at him for noticing that he was disabled.

[alexei]

Alexei glanced curiously up at the man as he swore - or at least it sounded like swearing - in another language, and then proceeded to apologize. "No problem." He had to smile to himself a little bit, though, people could be funny sometimes. Someone would do something and apologize for it, and the other person would also apologize for something that wasn't really their fault. People were just funny.

Alexei couldn't help but notice the comic book that the man was looking at. "That's a good one," he commented before he could stop himself.

[rhett]

Rhett felt dumb. He hated when he went off cursing in different languages. He did that a lot in his classes and he was always the teacher of the year or month at the college. He hated to be an idiot in public, but that is what you got when you were a hard core geek and did embarrassing stuff in public. Oh the humiliation.

“Oh the Ninth Wonders?” He asked with a puzzled look as he looked at Alexei. He seemed to know his comic book stuff – kind of like him. Scary!.