“The community is really all there, everybody loves comics.
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Whether observing Seki’s New Comic Wednesday or just glancing at the shop during the annual Free Comic Day, it’s clear his store has caught on. He asked me, ‘What happened to that comic book store?’ He died in 2013, I opened in 2015.” Right before he died, he pushed me to open it. “Bruce said it wasn’t worth it, so I waited. I had the last revenants of my collection–he was respectful of my collection and renewed my faith.”īefore Maui Comics, Maui had Compleat Comics, which closed in 2005. In 2010, I met Bruce when he moved out here to spend his last days. “After that, I was turned off from comics. “In the ‘90s, with The Death of Superman, everyone thought they would be a millionaire if they bought it,” Seki says. Ellsworth owned Tropix comics on the Mainland and was featured on CNN for selling Superman #1 for five figures. Seki’s journey to opening Maui Comics and Collectibles began with Bruce Ellsworth, his mentor. It speaks for that time period, America in the late ‘80s but it’s still so relevant.” Four bros with distinct personas–I love it. Those characters are so well crafted, they can’t fail in any form. If they’re your subject matter, it works. “There’s something so perfect about the Ninja Turtles. “For me, the pinnacle is Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,” he says. Prodding Seki to talk about comics leads me on a journey to a sewer, which reeks of pizza. That’s how I used to keep my comics–I used to sleep with them when I went to bed.” I destroyed them and slept with them under my pillow. I still have them: Wolverine #71, Excalibur and another X-Men. My first physical comic was when I was 11. I was just reading it and having my brain rot. “ Mad Magazine and all the funny papers,” he says. I ask him what his first comic book was as a child. He’s a family man who received his college degree in Massachusetts. Neither portly, crusty nor snooty, Seki is a thin, soft spoken young man with kind eyes and, at the moment, a beard/hairdo that makes him resemble a samurai in training. But he’s nothing like the famed Comic Book Guy from The Simpsons. Better still, they see only positive aspects with both the word “nerd” and how it plays into Maui’s mixed plate population.Īlika Seki is the owner of Maui Comics and Collectibles, Maui’s new comic book shop in Kahului’s Akaku center. At Maui Comics and Collectibles in Kahului, a group of nerds are proud and out in the open. In fact, the word “nerd” has become, according to its newest gate-keepers, a badge of honor. With many nerds out and proud of it, the culture of nerds on Maui is alive and well and growing. Yet, even as things once deemed un-hip are now a part of popular culture, some nerds still have a problem fully embracing their identity and have yet to come out of the proverbial closet.
It seems the nerds haven’t merely had their revenge but taken over as well. Abrams and Joss Whedon the cinematic storytellers of our time, things have changed monumentally. Now, with Mark Zuckerberg at the helm of Facebook, Steve Jobs’ inventions in seemingly every American home and guys like J.J. The word was a means of condemning smart kids with unique, blossoming tastes and deeming them fatally un-cool. The term “nerd” used to be a cruel, judgmental way of dismissing someone who, in spite of their intelligence, had poor social skills.
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