Modern family: Addition

Inspection

Wearing my usual clothes, I along with my siblings alighted from the car towards what should be a waiting line.

With one of my appointed employee in tow, we lined up along with the crowd of Dunphy fans that had their own hypotheses of what is in the store.

Fortunately, this month's weather in LA  isn't too bad so those awaiting for Dunphy Store to open can be in relative ease.

For apparent Volume Book reasons, it would seem that everyone has prepared themselves for this day.

The waiting line was filled with not only with debating nerds, steadily waiting parents and their excited children, peers of other stereotypical teens, hanging out and talking, but also regular socially normal kids as well.

Aside from the stereotype of happy- go- luckys, geeks and normal regular guys, it would seem that there were even jocks as well in the waiting line.

Perhaps they weren't part of the same school as the nerds or they are well-grounded jocks that are much more friendly than how they are portrayed in movies. At least, no trouble was brewing from them as they discusses amongst themselves.

Of course, not far from those teen stereotypes and norm kids are the pretty ladies whose cheerleader figures are hidden by their baggy winter wear.

There are still a lot of high school classifier groups to go through but from what I saw, Dunphy Comics seems to hook a lot of high schoolers as well.

It was not so surprising though given that grade-schoolers were amped up every day about comic books. It was in due time that their relatively teen-er counterparts should follow the same route as well.

It would seem that the people of the 70- 80s, or any people in any era for that matter, would always be caught up with what is trendy but it is somewhat unprecedented for the comic book industry. It shows that my efforts of pulling Comic books and related industry out of niche market to more diversified customer base is starting to show its due results.

Since comic books are the current entertainment trend, the diversity in the Dunphy Store's waiting line naturally fell into place.

Whichever the case, this made me assured of my next way to go. Children, parents, geeky nerds and ' new socially normal' dudes are stable demographics to work with while the entire teenage population itself is the true gold mine alongwith possible penetration in adult market.

The film industry's entire summer file is dependent on teens going to the cinema during their summer break after all.

There is no way that I'm passing up on that, so I have to maneuver my methods once again when the next year comes around.

The expansion from few comic book people should be done by then and steadily building up teen-attracting titles should be the way to go.

Shonen was manga's largest and most popular target type and Dunphy Comics should cater to the 'young men' of the generation.

Of course, to make use of the 2020s gender equality uprising, shojo or 'young women' should be catered to as well.

I listened in to whatever I could hear as I lined up and is quite looking forward to how they would react when they enter.

"Volume Books" here and "Volume Books" there could be heard all around, so it would be intriguing to see their expectations to technically not be overturned but exceeded.

The warmed-up expectations gradually heated up as the opening time came close and everyone's patience was tested against the season's weather.

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Finally and to ease everyone's patience, Mr. CounterBoy flipped the store sign to say 'Open' and the crowd rushed in.

The comic book release day seems to happen quite a lot of times for the crowd, so there was no dangerous stampeding that happened.

The usual crowd practiced and adapted themselves that the store 'rush' they were going through was not in any way dangerous or akin to a yak stampede.

Usually, the ones on the front had their own designated places to head towards, which is either on the Dunphy release section, survey and popularity poster display, shelves for Volume Books, grabbing a copy of the popularity posters, and few else does un- Dunphy- related stuff.

Today's top pick should be the expected mass of new Volume Books. As such, the crowd should be heading to the usual shelves as they crowded along.

However, for some reason, the leaders of the crowd stopped early in place. Everyone whose view was obstructed didn't know what the hold-up was about and assumed that the Volume Books were too shocking that those at the front can't take it in.

They were mostly right about the Volume Books though but they soon got the true reasoning behind things as they took in the pausing sight that beheld everybody.

Slowly but sequentially, a wave of pauses, shock, view-relishing, and so on and so forth happened as the crowd finally saw the new store decorations.

Everyone eventually spread out in dumbfounded eagerness and everyone from the waiting line had their space to settle in.

At this point, everyone was finally clued in on the unexpected pause to their 'rush'. It was because everything inside wasn't the usual comic book store they knew. Dunphy Store didn't have much to do with toys but this time it was all different. Dunphy Store, with it's toy section release, have  generated a lot of toy apparel.

The shelvings were arranged quite nicely,and what was displayed was Toys, Toys, Toys!

It wasn't about old Marvel or DC toys though but dazzling toy designs of the characters and stories that wowed them for the past couple of months now.

From Dragonball to RoboCop, sections of dazzling toy cases were on display and everyone just can't look away. They had seen a lot of toy aisles before but somehow they just can't help but want to imprint this Dunphy view to their minds.

If Dunphy Comics is the comic brand to go for, then the Dunphy Toys in the eye-catching packaging should be the next big thing.

Everyone who took in the new sight was either gulping salivas, in silence or gaped shock.

Fortunately, their collective silence was broken through...

"Oh my... whoever said it was all about Volume Books today should get punched." One of the neutral jocks can't help but let out his violent tendencies with things.

The jock's words were the precursor to things though as the stilled crowd became energized like ants in a hotpot.