It’s about time that I participated in this thread. However, I don’t want to identify my location on the Internet. Luckily, my LCS is part of a chain of three stores located in different cities:
Aw Yeah Comics
https://www.awyeahcomics.com/
The chain is co-owned by Art Baltazar and Franco Aureliani of Tiny Titans, Superman Family Adventures, Green Team: Teen Trillionaires, Super Powers, and many other (creator-owned) things fame.
I am lucky enough to live five minutes away from one of these stores. The ultimate irony, though, is that… I’m not a comic shop guy. I don’t buy physical comics, so I’ve only been in the place twice, both times to buy things that could only be bought in comic shops. My most recent purchase:
As I detail in that post, they did a very commendable job of selling the book to me, and didn’t play any games like some other shops are doing.
It’s a really cool little store that makes me wish that I was a comic shop guy so that I could spend more time there. Alas.