Words & Pictures

For me, walking into Words and Pictures was like entering an unknown dimension. No offense to nerds or geeks, (which does include my spouse), but this would be a store where my spouse, his buddies and anyone else I’d consider to be a nerd or geek would hobby shop. I am not one (based on my opinion and a recent pole for the purposes of this review) and realized how much of their world I am oblivious to as I perused. The only thing I could connect with was the Archie Comics and a few crazy figurines.
W&P is jam packed with items such as comic magazines, books, role playing games, collectible cards games (my spouse just helped me to figure out those acronyms — RPG’s and CCG’s), figurines, toys, there’s an entire section of Tokyopop, etc. I was intrigued by a lot of the books and actually spent a fair bit of time in here. I found a special edition Bizarro Comics book that was a good birthday gift for my spouse and a great addition to our coffee table books. I actually laughed out loud while leafing through it, which sold me.
The staff was very friendly and being that I was an obvious stranger to this territory, they asked several times if I needed help. The store is very organized and clean. Also awkwardly quiet even with others shopping there, which of course suits the nerd stereotype.
This store is a great place for gamers, collectibles shoppers and folks looking for a bit of a blast from the past. They provide comics appraisals as well.
²⁷⁄₃₀ for Unilocal’s 30 Day Challenge

This place is definitely one of the best animé stores that I have ever been to and I have probably dropped a fair amount of coin at this store in the 8 months that I lived in Calgary. It was a very convenient location within the University of Calgary Student Union. The staff are very friendly and knowledgeable and I most assuredly enjoyed picking their brains on the odd occasion.
I did rate it as non-​wheelchair accessible simply because of the fact that it just was not given all of the display racks and bookshelves would not support a wheelchair. It was most definitely a small space.