Comic shops are an easy target. But even the most famous of stereotypes have glowing exceptions. Every year, the Eisner Awards honor shops that stand out for retail excellence. They don't give them to folks selling comics out of basements. We won the award in 2006. Here was our video submission. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3uOt-l4YJs (in 2006 YouTube video quality :-)

It seems to me (which admittedly is very limited) that spam comments are only as valuable as google/users allow them to be. Most users can recognize a spam comment and ignore them, but Google can recognize links. Make links have "nofollow" in them.

L33T... and LOL I think.