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Posted by: Foreigner Jun 7 2006, 06:30 PM

I was wondering:

Could there be a connection between Lone Star and this RL company?

http://www.mycomicshop.com/

It's a comic book and RPG store in Texas.

P.S.: Sorry, folks. I double-posted earlier, and couldn't delete the extra one.

--Foreigner

Posted by: Calvin Hobbes Jun 7 2006, 06:35 PM

My thoughts are vauge ont he subject, but I feel very strongly about it.

Posted by: HalloranElder Jun 8 2006, 02:14 AM

I disagree, but I don't want to explain any further and start a flame war.

Posted by: Calvin Hobbes Jun 8 2006, 06:20 AM

I'm extrapolating that you hate me, and are just make an attack against my person.

Posted by: Catsnightmare Jun 8 2006, 08:50 AM

Ahhh, Lone Star Comics. This brings back childhood memories, I used to get all my comics and RPG's from Lone Star back in jr high and high school.

Posted by: Taran Jun 8 2006, 02:29 PM

Is it a Texas-based corporation? More likely the two are both drawing from Texas' nickname: "the Lone Star State".

Posted by: Shrike30 Jun 8 2006, 06:34 PM

I was wondering:

Could there be a connection between Lone Star and this RL state?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas

It's a state in the USA.

Posted by: nezumi Jun 8 2006, 06:51 PM

Shrike, is that a serious question? Or a joke?

(The answer is yes, Lone Star started in Texas and took its name from there.)

Posted by: Shrike30 Jun 8 2006, 06:54 PM

Sorry, forgot the

Posted by: Akimbo Jun 9 2006, 12:36 PM

Or perhaps Lone Star from Spaceballs?

Posted by: Moon-Hawk Jun 9 2006, 01:08 PM

There's only one man who would DARE give me the raspberry!
Lone Star!

Posted by: Calvin Hobbes Jun 9 2006, 08:15 PM

It's the reason I have an RV in our SR game.

Posted by: psyberian Jun 9 2006, 08:22 PM

no relation, move along, nothing to see here.....


I actually used their subscription service for a while. It was ok, nothing great, comics aren't bagged and boarded and packed really tight which could bend bindings. They also had issue with changing addresses if you moved. I went with a local store, which I should have in the first place, and am much happier.

Posted by: ronin3338 Jun 9 2006, 11:15 PM

I'll go you one better, I used to work for them.

If you have to have something, and nobody else has it, order from Amazon. Their service and respect for gamers has completely deteriorated over the past 5 years. They're still great for comics, and pretty good for action figures, but unless it's the hot new CCG or collectible whatever, they're not that interested in your business.

Posted by: Kyoto Kid Jun 10 2006, 03:20 AM

...in RL Portland (TT), there used to be a concrete firm named Lonestar.

Posted by: Protagonist Jun 10 2006, 05:19 PM

Posted by: Toptomcat Jun 10 2006, 09:07 PM

Give him a break, folks, he's a Foreigner.

Posted by: Daddy's Little Ninja Jun 12 2006, 12:54 PM

More likely this will come out of Japan. A couple of weeks ago a lot of the traffic warden/meter maid stuff was licenced out to a private company. There are a lot of complaints. The companies are for profit and get a take on how many tickets they write. The Government thinks they will get an increase in revenue. People are worried the private corps will be more heavy handed, giving tickets where a real policeman might just give a warning.

There has already been a case where a man kicked one of the traffic wardens working for a private company and then drove off. Of coure his plate had been written down.- here is the tie in to SR- Although the warden worked for a private corporation, he was working under a contract issued by the government so the man is being charged with assaulting a police officer.

Posted by: Foreigner Jun 12 2006, 01:16 PM