Ray McGillicudddy (Donal Logue  The Tao of Steve) is a lonesome local comic book store owner who lives and dies for comic books; he's obsessed with them to the point of insanity, across town is Norman (Michael Rapaport  Higher Learning, Boston Public) and Judy (Natasha Lyonne  But I'm a cheerleader, Detroit Rock City), own a rival comic book store, but they're into comics for a different reason: profit. When a local collector of rather rare comic books dies, the rivals discover his mile-high million dollar collection and fight it out for the prize resorting to cheating, robbery, and murder.
    Often times, a movie occasionally slips through the cracks of Hollywood inevitably going straight to video to collect dust in low-budget video stores or to just disappear in the movie "Bermuda Triangle". This is one of those movies. Released straight to video, this is a rare find, but it's a pretty good watch. First off what drew me in was "Comics". I am a major comic book fanatic; and as I watched this I was able to see an interesting array of characters very well portrayed by this top-notch cast of character actors. They're all twisted demented caricatures of the world showing this movie's true undertone: Greed. Donal Logue's character basically resorts to anything in the movie to get the comic books, even going to his old school bully to help him rob the old lady that has these comics. The characters Norm and Judy are pathetic yet ruthless characters that see the profit in the comics and also resort to anything. I loved how the real character of the movie were the comics collection. This resembled "The Treasure of Sierra Madre", the stuff that dreams are made of; a cast of characters fighting for this treasure. Anyways, this is a pretty good watch with some good moments, but be advised this is a black comedy, so don't expect a whole lot of laughs.

As the movie reached it's final ten minute mark I wasn't surprised that it fell through the cracks of Hollywood as I mentioned in the aforementioned paragraph above; The movie is hardly a masterpiece. We have an array of cad characters amidst a seemingly lifeless town without many other characters. The movie's message is clear, but I also got the impression that James Robinson was telling the audience that if you collect comic books or engage in any other type of hobby, you're really pathetic. The character that collected dies in the beginning and is portrayed as a sad lump whose sole purpose was none other than collecting. The main character Donal Logue is also a pathetic creature whom gives off a stench in this movie. The plotline was unoriginal and at times, contrived to the point of predictability.

If you want, check it out; it may be hard to find but when you do, I suggest you give it a shot. I guess it's available at comic conventions or something; but I find that incomprehensible because of the fact that this movie discourages collecting pretty much anything.