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COMIC BOOK MEN: SEASON 1 - REVIEW

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Led by Kevin Smith, Comic Book Men was AMC's geekier version of a Pawn Stars -style reality show with Red Bank, New Jersey comic-book store Jay & Silent Bob's Secret Stash as the central setting. Cleverly using a podcast recording as a framing device, the show would include goofy comics-themed conversations, transactions with customers selling or purchasing all kinds of items and a mini-storyline involving the main cast. A sort-of spin-off from popular Smodco podcasts Tell 'Em Steve-Dave and I Sell Comics , the cast in question was a mix of both with Walt Flanagan and Bryan Johnson joining Ming Chen and Mike Zapcic behind the Stash's counter. Season 1 is a short one in that it only has 6 episodes but each of them is about 45 minutes long, a running-time that would be reduced by half soon enough. And this is why this first season remains the best of the bunch: by giving us more time with the cast and having more space to develop the main stories, the show allo