Elizabeth Banks

So all the news this week is about the premiere of The Walking Dead. I DVR that shiz so no spoilers please. But AMC premiered the pilot of another show that same night - Comic Book Men with my friend Kevin Smith. I’d been looking forward to capping off my birthday weekend by tapping into nerdville so of course I watched.

Kevin Smith owns this comic book store in Jersey called Jay and Silent Bob’s Secret Stash. He doesn’t actually work there. He still writes and directs movies sometimes but he does show up for a podcast where him and the three guys that do actually work there plus another big-bearded guy that just hangs out at the store way too much to poke fun at one of the other employees, sit around a table with mics and talk about the people that walked into the store trying to sell their hopefully-one-of-a-kind memorabilia - A Jack Kirby Thor poster, a Dawn of the Dead movie poster, a Million Dollar Man toy, a Chucky doll. Reminded me of Pawn Stars.

My honest assessment: I was really looking forward to this series (and still am, it’s only had it’s first episode), but I wanted to see more Smith and more comic books and more real customers just walk into the store. Nobody deals with people better than Kevin - have you seen this? *And this video is NSFW!! (It's Kevin Smith, y'all!).

And I half expected Rosario Dawson to also work at the store. It's a little weird that there are no chicks there. Actually, thinking on it a second longer, it's not weird at all.

Did you watch? Do you care? Favorite comic book?