u/TorstenAdair
Crapload is a measure of money.
Crapton is a measure of weight and volume. (Yup, it's relativistic. YMMV, Schrödinger.)
A crapton of rain is any amount which causes temporary street flooding in certain neighborhoods. In Omaha, roughly ten craptons causes Missouri River flooding. If the Papio floods? That's an Ark of water.
In Omaha, nobody wants to park more than two blocks from their destination.
Downtown has lots of cheap parking.
Myself? I'd rent a bay in a strip mall near UNO/Aksarben. (You're gonna be a destination for fans, and a bar for everyone else.) As with all good bars, you've got the bar, and a party room.
Then, as business improves, you set up satellite bars. The small size and standardized plan makes it easy to relocate if your landlord is a jerk.
All y'all are defining the ages based on superhero comics? Not on the actual history of the medium?
1999 is the turning point, with Pokémon and manga and anime exploding. It thrives outside the comics shop ecosystem, with bookstores and libraries catering to young readers and women who were largely ignored by comics shops. Heroes World is also significant.
Then there are comicstrips, which were almost a separate fandom before the Millennium. I was always surprised how few comics shops sold comic strip collections in the 1990s, even when those collections were hitting the NYT bestseller lists.
