Diamond List for May 28th, 2008

[TheCorpulent1]

I've developed a similar system for lunch, since I read comics while eating lunch so frequently now. I split my table area into quadrants:

- top-left contains my drink, isolated far enough away from the comics that I can move them if I knock it over or something
- bottom-left contains my comics, adjusted occasionally for glare if necessary
- bottom-right contains my food, which may only be accessed using my right hand
- top-right contains a generous supply of napkins.

 

[iloveclones]

I sat down in a Starbucks and read comics while drinking coffee. It felt really weird to me.

That's because it was Starbucks. you need to find an independent coffee shop. One of the ones where they require of their employees piercings and clothing that looks like it came from Goodwill. Try your local college, I'm sure they have a few dozen...

 

[venom892]

I never even drink anything near my comics.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

That's because it was Starbucks. you need to find an independent coffee shop. One of the ones where they require of their employees piercings and clothing that looks like it came from Goodwill. Try your local college, I'm sure they have a few dozen...

People at my college seem to love Starbucks, actually. Mother****ers built one into our main library, in fact.

There are two independent coffee shops that I know make good coffee, though. I still wouldn't really feel right reading comics at either of those, though. Maude's is downtown and tends to draw all the trendy hipsters--the kind of people who'd laugh at me for having a 70/30 ratio of superhero to indie comics--and the other tends to have students studying all the time, to the point that I feel weird if I'm not there with a laptop and a giant textbook. Meh, I think I'm just too picky to read comics anywhere except at home and at work.

 

[iloveclones]

People at my college seem to love Starbucks, actually. Mother****ers built one into our main library, in fact.

You're not alone. Colleges will ****e themselves out to any ******* with two dimes to rub together.

On the plus side, our local public library (which I must say, kicks 10 kinds of ass) gave the contract for a coffee shop to a local shop.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Nice. My local public library is pretty good, but they don't have a coffee shop. They seem to cater more to kids than the coffee-drinking demographic; but that's also kind of cool because I guess they consider graphic novels and comics "kids' stuff," so every branch has a whole section in or near the kids' section devoted to them. I've checked out a bunch of TPBs from them.

 

[SpideyInATree]

ALL STAR SUPERMAN #11
BATMAN #677 RIP
FABLES #73 (MR)
FINAL CRISIS #1 (OF 7)
DAREDEVIL #107
IMMORTAL IRON FIST #15
MARVEL 1985 #1 (OF 6)
NEW AVENGERS #41 SI
ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN #122
WIZARD MAGAZINE #201 MCNIVEN X-MEN CVR $5.99

Very solid week. Gonna check out 1985 and see what that turns out like. I have been looking forward to it for a while.

 

[Hans]

I didn't know people still bought Wizard. Huh.

 

[SpideyInATree]

Yup it's a good magazine

 

[Hans]

Whatever floats your boat.

 

[SpideyInATree]

It doesn't float my boat. It's reading material for when I am taking a poop

 

[Anubis]

So it floats your poop?

 

[Hans]

My poop mostly sinks to the bottom.

 

[Anubis]

Too much iron in your diet.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Comics are reading material for when I poop. They're quick enough reads that I can read a whole one and feel completely satisfied before my butt gets too numb.

 

[Norman Osborn]

Comics are reading material for when I poop. They're quick enough reads that I can read a whole one and feel completely satisfied before my butt gets too numb.

I'm sorry but taking comic books into the bathroom is just wrong!! ....and anyone who can read a comic in the alloted time it takes to poop, should seriously consider seeing a doctor about the latter

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I never said I was constantly pooping.

 

[Anubis]

Comics for the constipated.

 

[Spade]

FINAL CRISIS #1 (OF 7) $3.99

DAREDEVIL #107 $2.99
IMMORTAL IRON FIST #15 $2.99

Hmm...short visit to the shop for me.

 

[Spider-Jay420]

DC COMICS
ALL STAR SUPERMAN #11 $2.99
BATMAN #677 RIP $2.99 (that was fast!)
FINAL CRISIS #1 (OF 7) $3.99 (lets see what Morrison has in store, shall we?)

MARVEL COMICS
DAREDEVIL #107 $2.99 (considering dropping this one...)
GIANT SIZE ASTONISHING X-MEN #1 $4.99 (my last Astonishing)
NEW AVENGERS #41 SI $2.99
THOR #9 $2.99
ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN #122 $2.99

WIZARD MAGAZINE #201 MCNIVEN X-MEN CVR $5.99
nice big week for me, thanks Teardrop

 

[Spider-Jay420]

Comics are reading material for when I poop. They're quick enough reads that I can read a whole one and feel completely satisfied before my butt gets too numb.

Thats when I flip thru Wizard. Your butt goes numb, or your feet?? I've never had my butt go numb, but my feet...all the time.

 

[venom892]

Wait a minute!First eating around comics now taking them to bathroom!It's an outrage!I do take Wizard to bathroom when I read though.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Thats when I flip thru Wizard. Your butt goes numb, or your feet?? I've never had my butt go numb, but my feet...all the time.

My feet fall asleep, and then I've gotta do the awkward pins-and-needles walk over to the sink to wash my hands.

 

[Sebastos]

IMMORTAL IRON FIST #15 $2.99
NEW AVENGERS #41 SI $2.99

#15 of Immortal Iron Fist looks awesome. Bei Bang-Wen is one of the Iron Fist's of the past that I thought had a cool look.

 

[JTStarkiller]

Huge week for me.

Action Comics #865
All-Star Superman #11
Batman #677
Final Crisis #1
Daredevil #107
Giant Astonishing X-Men #1
Star Wars: Dark Times #5
The Sword #8