Comic Book Villains

Synopsis: Told from the point of view from Archie, a comic book collector, this is the story of a rivalry between two comic book shop owners. One does it for the love of comics, while the other shop, run by a husband-and-wife team are in it strictly for the money. The situation brews to a head when a sneak collector, Conan discovers a large collection of perfectly-preserved classic comics, leading the two shops to vie to acquire them, along with a "villain" who hopes to steal them first.

Genre: Comedy

Director(s): James Robinson

Actors: Donal Logue, Cary Elwes, Michael Rapaport, Natasha Lyonne

Production: LionsGate Entertainment


IMDB:: 5.6

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: R
Year:: 2002
: 92 min
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You know comics?
You know comics?
Oh, please.
I'm listening. I'm all ears.
Please, please, tell me!
It's not just comics.
It's about cash.
We could have split it.
We could have split it? No!
It's all mine!
Why? Why? Why would
I split it with you?
Because we were
in this together.
No! I'm in this alone!
My whole life!
Every waking, sleeping,
dreaming moment of my life,
I spent for comics.
What do you
live for, my friend?
You know comics?
You know shit!
You know comics?
You know shit!
Is that what it would
have taken to share?
I know comics, too.
I--I grew up with them.
Oh, yeah, you know comics.
You're the oracle
of delphi of comics.
Yes, um, uh...
First appearance
of superman?
Uh,
action comics
#1.
Everyone knows that.
Batman?
Detective comics
Spider-man?
Spider-man
#1.
Uh-uh!
Oh, wait, wait. Uh...
Amazing fantasy
Amazing fantasy
Golden age flash?
Golden age flash...
Uh,
flash comics
#1.
Silver age flash?
Showcase 4.
Human torch?
Uh,
fantastic four
#1.
No! I'm taking about
the 1940's torch!
Oh, uh...
Marvel mystery
#1.
Wonder woman?
Wonder woman...
Come on!
Wonder woman...
Wonder woman--
sensation
Wrong!
No, no, wait.
I'm right.
It's definitely
sensation
I'm right.
It's definitely
sensation
No!
No!
It's not
wonder woman #1,
if that's--
what are you trying to do?
What are you trying to do?
Insult me?
Are you patronizing me,
or are you just trying
to get yourself killed?
Because if
you're doing that,
you're doing
a very... good... job.
Our town?
Um... it was normal.
Walk down main street
on a busy Saturday,
and you knew
almost everyone.
Yep, a normal place.
Normal stores
and normal people.
And if it was
a little boring,
no one seemed
to notice but me.
The thing is, looking back,
I see it wasn't just normal.
It was real, too--
the real world,
where parents paid bills
and kids worried
about football tryouts,
and kids worried
about football tryouts,
where folks argued
whether the president
was a Saint or a sinner.
Yep. Real.
A little piece
of the world
that my friends and me
didn't belong to.
See, we had
a world of our own.
Why argue about
the president
when you could argue
for the fate of earth
with galactus,
devourer of worlds?
Why try out for football
when you could try out
for the X-Men?
Nah, we didn't
do any of that.
Nah, we didn't
do any of that.
But read enough comics,
and it sure made
you feel like you did.
Pathetic? Yeah, maybe.
But all you out there
with your daytime soaps,
as far as I'm concerned,
you're in glass houses
throwing stones.
That's me.
The name's Archie lake.
I have to say
that I'm a bit different
from a lot of guys here.
Not by choice,
my parents dying and all.
I was alone.
I had a single room
in a guesthouse.
Me, a bed, and more comic
boxes than I could count.
Me, a bed, and more comic
boxes than I could count.
Most of these guys
live at home.
Why? No rent.
And guess what that
extra dough gets spent on.
And not just
new books every month,
back issues, too,
some costing
some serious dough.
Which is
how and why things turned
a little crazy last year.
Ah, and this
is Raymond macgillicuddy,
owner of this
heaven on earth.
Getting in with Raymond
so he thought you were
worth talking to...
Now that was
something to strive for.
Now that was
something to strive for.
When he thought
you were worth the effort,
boy, those talks...
Stimulating.
About things
that really matter.
If you want to f*ck
a superheroine,
the golden age canary
wins hands-down over
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