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February 28 2008
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The Comic Shop offers social venue for gamers
Joseph Dunlap
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originall) across the street
from Hurl) Elemental) School
next to Charlie's Appliances
and Tim Tattoos. The build-
ing was about the si.e of a
small classroom. Eventual!)
because of increased business
the shop had to expand taking
over two buildings.
Since then The Comic Shop
has moved twice eventually
taking root three years ago
at 108 East Baker across the
street from the fountain on
Center Avenue and within
walking distance of Taylor
Clinic.
The Comic Shop orders its
StarCraft
by Steve Ellingsen
YJ AssistantEditor
Six Game of the Year awards.
Induction into the Walk of
Game in San Francisco. Major
televised gaming tournaments
in South Korea.
Clearly StarCraft has done
all right for itself. It has even
thrived on the campus of
Howard Payne where weekly
competitions and an online
Facebook group ensure that
the game is growing strong.
For the uninitiated StarCraft
is a real-time strategy
photos bv Joseph Dimhip
Above: The Comic Shop is packed with shelves of comic books and
displays of trading cards. In the game room a Magic: the Gathering
tournament is underway. Left: The outside of The Comic Shop.
merchandise from Diamond
Comic Distributors Inc.
which is tied with both Marvel
Comics and Wizards of the
Coast. This means custom-
ers can order a specific comic
book or Magic: the Gathering
card set and The Comic Shop
can get it for them.
The store is run by three
brothers: Ray Tipton founder
Eric Tipton who runs the shop
and orders cards and comic
group at Howard Payne continues to grow
HPU SUB-CULTURES
computer game in which the
player must choose to take con-
trol of one of three races: the
ingenuitive human Terrans; the
efficient mysterious Protoss;
or the bloodthirsty swarms
of the Zerg. While building
a formidable balanced attack
force the player must secure
resources gather enemy intel-
ligence and in some cases
plan subterfuge.
The game was originally
books and Jarrod Tipton who
comes to the shop after school
and helps run the Magic tour-
naments. Their mother Sandra Tipton
helped get the store sanctioned
by the Duelists' Convocation
International the national
organization that organizes
Magic: the Gathering tourna-
ments. Since then the Saturday
tournaments have been DCI-
sanctioned meaning players
released in 1998 and has since
maintained a strong follow-
ing even in the face of such
new multiplayer games as
Halo 2 and Super Smash Bros:
Melee.
The StarCraft community at
HPU started small. Originally
"the only people playing
StarCraft were students living
off campus" mentioned senior
Richard Lewis founder of the
Facebook group. "I decided
that we need people on campus
playing."
Games now take place at
least once a week with up
can have a local and national
ranking.
"The tournaments have got-
ten pretty crazy" said Eric
Tipton. "The police were over
and I even had to throw some
guys out."
Groups have also come to
play Dungeons and Dragons.
"People have come by to
order Dungeons and Dragons
dice and books" said Tipton.
"Once two groups came on
to eight people at a time bat-
tling for victory. A single per-
son serves as host while all
other players connect over the
schools network.
Freshman Josh Sherman was
introduced to the game after
watching one of his friends
play and deciding he wanted
to play "Almost everyone has
a computer nowadays and it's
all that you need to play"
Sherman said. "It's easy to get
a game together since we're all
connected on the same network
already and in my opinion it's
easier to play than Halo 2."
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the same day to play and they
didn't even know the other
group existed. There were like
1 5 guys in here."
The Comic Shop's customers
aren't just limited to teenagers.
Its clientele includes lawyers
college students high school-
ers and local teachers. "We
even have a college profes-
sor from Tarleton who drives
down every Saturday" said
Tipton.
Lewis compared the game's
continued popularity to another
revered game from the late 90s:
Final Fantasy VII. Speaking of
StarCraft Lewis said: "Back
then it was so revolutionary
so creative that we just got
hooked on it and it's got qual-
ity to it - the kind of substance
that we can keep coming back
for the experience."
Sherman credits the game's
appeal to the unique com-
bination of units and strate-
gies which ensure that "each
time you play it is a different
experience."
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