[perrych]

To kind of play devil's advocate here, you really do want to keep up your LCS as much as you can. In the age of digital comics, ebay and amazon.com, these places are struggling for the most part. I live in a pretty large city - we have 2 comic stores (but lost one due to poor sales) and fortunately Savannah College of Art and Design students really keep one of them open all by themselves.

Now I have NO RESPECT for stores that go around and buy all the stock from WM and Target and TRU to fill the pegs at 2X the price for their stores. But I look at my store that has an incredible selection of Marvel Select figures for $25, were selling TF Grapple for $25, and generally has BBTS type prices on most toys and I would rather pay a little more for a figure from them than go to ebay.