On the Pseudo-Ubiquity of Walmart · 5:52pm Mar 1st, 2013
As with most things:
It's my own fault, I suppose. I heard the horror stories about Walmart spreading over the U.S. countryside like some vast retail form of kudzu, gobbling up the landscape and choking local businesses out of existence, and I just accepted them at face value. I mean, it wasn't as if there were any Walmarts around for me to look into.
See, I live near the end of this three mile long appendix of sand curling away from the California coast. Less than two football fields wide for the most part and with just the one road leading out here, there just isn't what you'd call room for a Walmart. And since three of my four part-time jobs keep me happily here, I only hafta venture onto the mainland once or maybe twice a week. So at the age of four dozen and a couple weeks, I had never set foot inside a Walmart. I didn't even know where the nearest one was.
But looking for something to distract me from chapter 6 of "History"--I posted it yesterday despite wanting to do more editing to it--and needing to pick up the third issue of the Pony comic book and the Twilight Sparkle one-shot, I figured I'd kill two pegasi with one stone as it were: see if there was a Walmart anywhere near the comic book store three towns inland and pick up the Walmart exclusive "Pinkie Pie Party" DVD while I was out driving.
I mean, I'd already checked eBay and the Walmart website for the DVD without finding a copy for sale, so I figured I had no choice. But with it being a Walmart exclusive, and Walmart being a massive conglomerate set on world domination, well, how in the name of fiendish monopolies everywhere could any given Walmart possibly not have a copy of this DVD?
Well, the one I went to didn't have it. They'd never even heard of it. And the next nearest Walmart, supposedly just a freeway exit south and west a few blocks, didn't seem to be there at all--I drove clear through to the big shopping mall by the other freeway and never saw hide nor hair of this alleged Walmart.
So I got the comics--I'm quite enjoying them, all told--but I'm stymied as to the DVD. I suppose I'll hafta call around and ask...
Mike
I personally got over the awkwardness and imho laziness of the art and how the buck that leg rest was supposed to work with having no feasible way to turn, I found that one shot Twilight issue quite enjoyable. I really wish more people would buy it. I'm dieing to see who gets AJ, I already know Andy from the main story arc has Rarity—He wants AJ's issue too, she's his favorite Pony—so I know we can look forward to a fun read later this month.
Man, it's good to know that the comics at least will not be all that tied to the TV show and deliver more of the action we wouldn't normally see on the actual show. Still, glad to see us getting extra comics alongside the main arc.
Bit of a tangent there, still, sounds like you had quite the adventure lol since you got the comics, at least it appears to have been a successful enough run :P
Haven't looked myself, but you might check walmart.com and see if you can order it online.
Wally World is actually really bad about not having stuff. The ones around where I live are consistently one or two waves behind on anything Hasbro.
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I'm a big fan of:
Thom Zahler's webcomic Love and Capes, but there, he does his own coloring. On the Twilight Sparkle book, someone else colored his art, and it came out a little peculiar to my eyes. The story was pretty fun, though, especially the off-hand way Twilight figures out the "big reveal" before it happens. I also like the way the regular Pony book is dancing to its own drummer. I'm not quite sold on Cook's version of the changelings, but then I still haven't figured out how they're s'pposed to work in the show, either...
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Sentient? Possibly. Sapient, though, that might get you a bit of an argument. Besides, what need have I of Walmart? A little pony, a glass of milk, and half a macaroon: what more could anyone want?
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I gave their website a look last week to no avail. It might be the caravans of dromedaries crossing the Mohave are moving slowly this month. I'm sure it'll show up somewhere within my purview at some point...
Mike Again