[Freak]

Hi guys, I doing a bit of research, and I would like your help.

What I want to know is:-

1. Would you read a comic’s?
2. Do you collect them?
3. Do you read comics that are imported form the US, (Namely Marvel, DC and the other major publishes, of well know comics.) or British comic like 2000 AD?
4. Do you have Specialist Comic Book Store near you, and far do you have to travel to get to one?
5. If you don’t have a Specialist Comic Book Store near you, do you buy them online, IE form Forbidden Planets or ebay?
6. If you don’t have a Specialist Comic Book Store near you and don’t buy them online, would you if there is a Specialist Comic Book Store near you or a British website, that would send them to your door?

The reason I am asking these question is that, I have found that shops like WH Smith’s and Waterstones do not sell original Published comic’s form the US. They do sell reprinted Issues of comics, in hard back book with four or five stories together, but they don’t sell the original Issue’s.

The only places I have found in the UK that sell the original publication of these comics, are form Specialist Comic Book Store.
In London there are about seven Specialist Comic Book Store dotted about the city with the biggest one being Forbidden Planet in Central London. However none of these stores are easy to get to. (Not so much for Adults as its normal a twenty minute drive to the nearest store.)

With 4 major movies coming out this summer based on comics, (Iron-Man, The Incredible Hulk, The Dark Knight and Hell Boy 2) there will be a demand for these comics that will not be filled.