My Comic Shop Country is a feature-length documentary film exploring the business, fandom, and community of comic book stores across the United States. In 2015, New York's Alternate Realities closed after 23 years in operation, setting filmmaker-and former AR employee-Anthony Desiato on a quest to explore the comics retail industry from coast to coast. Comic book characters are box office gold, but why isn't the same necessarily true for comic stores? See how the 20 shops featured in the film are turning the tide, one customer at a time, seven days a week. Plus: Learn the fate (and future?) of Alternate Realities.
Anthony Desiato
Director
McQueen74%
John Candy: I Like Me78%
Public Speaking70%
Directed by John Ford70%
The Class of ‘9271%
The Summers of It - Chapter Two: It Ends71%
Night Will Fall76%
Room 23761%
Above Majestic73%
Dawg Fight65%
Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home67%
A Plastic Ocean75%
LA Originals69%
Seduced and Abandoned62%
In the Realms of the Unreal71%
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Hawkeye71%
Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition86%
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty77%
That's Entertainment!73%
Louis Theroux: Twilight of the Porn Stars63%
