Alex Manning will need plenty of “Super Friends” to help keep his new comic book shop alive. Can they possibly "save the day?"

SYNOPSIS:

Young Alex peers through the window of the empty storefront and makes a wish to open a comic book shop here someday. Alex’s Dad tells him to stop daydreaming because they must catch a bus. Sadly, Young Alex leaves the storefront.

Time shifts to the present as Alex opens his store, steps into the back office, and sees his whiteboard which focuses on his “start-up” debt and his “emergency three-month savings. Can Alex draw enough customers to cover the daily budget he has set for himself and make the store profitable? He receives his “opening day” balloons from a courier. He places them around the shop.

Alex welcomes his first visitor, but it’s his fiancé, Carmen. She tells Alex that if he wants to draw attention to his store, he should have the balloons outside instead of inside. Alex grabs a ladder, gathers some balloons, and hangs them outside. Carmen brings up the subject that her dad is still pressuring her to stop seeing him. He is worried that Alex will drag her promising career down with his shop’s failure. Her Dad told her that if the shop doesn’t succeed in six months, and she decides to stay with Alex, he will pull her funding for graduate school. He said she would have thrown away her career by staying with a loser. She recommends even more balloons to draw attention and leaves.

Alex orders more and fills the front awning with them. This decreases his savings, but he still has most of it left. No customers. Alex’s friend Chip arrives and advises him to do something bigger to draw customers, like rent searchlights, then leaves. Alex orders searchlights and places them outside. Still no customers. This decreases his savings, but he still has most of it left. His savings is now almost two months, and he is not covering his daily costs. Alex can’t continue to keep digging into his emergency funds or he will be flying without a net.

He gets a phone call and just misses it because he was in the bathroom. He listens to the message only to find that it is from another comic shop in town that hopes that he doesn’t succeed. This is disheartening Alex. He is about to close the store for the night.

Finally, a customer named James enters the store. Alex listens to his story about how much he has been looking forward to the shop’s opening day. James buys comics from Alex who realizes that that is why he dreamed about the store. He opened it to be a haven for people who love comics…The money will come.

He closes his shop for the night. Alex sees a young boy peering into the closed shop with his dad. The boy tells his dad he wants to open a comic shop of his own someday. Alex walks home smiling.

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