The shame of buying comics

[mg_productions]

Originally posted by eris
screw all of you, you have no idea, what do you think its like to walk into a comic shop & get the "what the hell are you doing in here?" (& im not that pretty, ok maybe they are cheaking out the rack)...thank gawd for the snail (comic shop with a lot of female staff)....or the odd look when you buy a toy or the searching for the rug rat that you are buying it for...not to mention getting shown the E games for your kid or the "i think your boyfreind will like this one" when you are looking at ones with an M...not to mention him sulking when you beat him at a game or being mistaken for a groupy at a rock show...so

Uh hmm,uh hmm....'thank gawd for the sna'.......wait...Wait,I'm sorry,di...did you say rack?Oh okay,great.










I'm sorry,I thought it would be funny.

 

[Stoner_Fanboy]

Tell them to read some Henti comics and see if that's for kids? lol Ok, maybe that shouldn't be for anyone either lol, nah **** it, what you do in your home is no one business but you're own, just listen to Vinilla Sex by NoFx

 

[the defenders]

heheh
I wish i knew a girl who liked comics and punk rock
I'd be set

 

[eris]

Originally posted by mg_productions

I'm sorry,I thought it would be funny.

what i find funny is you seem to be the only one who has picked up that their is a female in thier midst

 

[mg_productions]

Yeah,I'm good.

Unlike some fanboys,I have an interest in other things as well

 

[Godlovinspidey]

I do too.

 

[Roughneck]

I do as well.

I started Buying comics after highschool. I have never been emmbarassed about it. I do get bugged but I don't care. If a girl I'm dating has a problem with the comics then she can leave. That is like her saying "It's either me or the dog."

Some people undersatand that the comics are not just great entertainment but also an investment. I know that if I am ever in finacial trouble I have a room full of stuff I can sell for some good coin. Also the amount of stuff that I have actually learned from comics is unfathomable. But the people who say that it is childish can kiss my ass when I make my living in a childish career.

As for the girls. I have never met one that has a broblem with it. (Yes I have met a few). The way most of them see it is 'well he spends some money on comics, at least he reads.' or 'hey he spends money on comics, at least he doesnt blow all of his money on booze and drugs."

That is what I find in my experience anyway.

 

[Godlovinspidey]

Yeah, I was surprised, when I actually started telling people that it was one of my hobbies, they were like: Cool, what kind do you read? And I've met many a collector or at least someone who was genuinely interested like that. So now, if they don't like them, I honestly don't care. And if they think I'm a loser because of my hobby, I wouldn't want to be their friend anyway.

 

[Mr. Edward Hyde]

Well lets face it. most of comic collectors are morbidly obease , live in there moms basements and will remain virgins (and your hand doesnt count) the rest of their lives. sad but true. i hardly see any girls in comic shops. i saw one covered in warts one time and i thought i was going to vomit. most of the men i see walk in are over 200 lbs. its sad but true. some of them are older and like to buy the old valuble comics hanging on the wall. and i hated it when i was like fourteen and i would go into the shop and the old dude would be like "dont touch" "its for sale" "dont wrinkle the pages" he thought i was a ***kin idiot or something. but i wasnt that stupid.

 

[eris]

Originally posted by Mr. EDWARD HYDE
Well lets face it. most of comic collectors are morbidly obease , live in there moms basements and will remain virgins (and your hand doesnt count) the rest of their lives. sad but true. i hardly see any girls in comic shops. i saw one covered in warts one time and i thought i was going to vomit. most of the men i see walk in are over 200 lbs. its sad but true. some of them are older and like to buy the old valuble comics hanging on the wall. and i hated it when i was like fourteen and i would go into the shop and the old dude would be like "dont touch" "its for sale" "dont wrinkle the pages" he thought i was a ***kin idiot or something. but i wasnt that stupid.

where do you live? cus that isnt the sceene where i'm from

 

[THE8th]

Its always nice to meet people who are into comics and a cool,good looking, and are not morbidlly obese, and have a girl friend. I have met very little of these people, as a matter of fact I dont think I ever have. If only I new where the hot chick who are into comics and punk rock are hideing.

 

[Lt. Figgnuts]

My girlfriend has no problem with my comic habit. She doesn't read them, but sometimes I'll get carried away and start overexplaining Ultimate Spider-Man or Superman/Batman and she won't even care...one of the reasons I'm so into her.
As for people just looking at the pictures, or assuming that that's all comic fans do...I HATE that. I am VERY into reading, and the person that said that comics are a form of literature is very true. The art is a big part, and bad art will drive some people away, but if the art rocks and the story sucks the buyer is going to regret buying the comic once he realizes that he wasted his money for pretty pictures.
I love to read. It's one of the reasons I got into comics. The art and the writing all come together to make a monthly masterpiece. As good as some of the best novels out there, I say.

 

[Godlovinspidey]

Originally posted by Mr. EDWARD HYDE
Well lets face it. most of comic collectors are morbidly obease , live in there moms basements and will remain virgins (and your hand doesnt count) the rest of their lives. sad but true. i hardly see any girls in comic shops. i saw one covered in warts one time and i thought i was going to vomit. most of the men i see walk in are over 200 lbs. its sad but true. some of them are older and like to buy the old valuble comics hanging on the wall. and i hated it when i was like fourteen and i would go into the shop and the old dude would be like "dont touch" "its for sale" "dont wrinkle the pages" he thought i was a ***kin idiot or something. but i wasnt that stupid.

Wow, I don't know where you live, but I don't know anyone over 200 pounds that reads comics. All the comic-readers I know are perfectly normal people, with a good group of friends, and some are pretty popular. Comic books [here at least] doesn't really bring down your social status.

 

[Roughneck]

True some fans are te typical stereotype. It had to come from somewhere. I see fat loser guys, no offence, in my store but I also see nomal guys too guys like me. The only time I see a girl in the store is if she is with a child or her boyfriend. But me, I make my mom wait in the car.

The thing I really hate is when the guy working at the store is not a comic fan. That just pisses me right off.

 

[Lt. Figgnuts]

Exactly. You have no right to be in the business in any way, shape, or form if you're not at least marginally interested in the medium.
Most of the people I know that read comics aren't the "typical comic loser" either. But there is one guy who works at my comic shop who definitley fits the stereotype...his upper half is like...twice as huge as his bottom half. He has a huge upper-body and peglegs, it's freaky.

 

[FlameHead]

So comic shop nerds are stereotyped to be illproportioned people now?

 

[Jugsy]

man, if people want to call be a ner, fine, I LMAO when I'm making 80K a year designing video games, or writting stoies or some ****, and there working at the local 7-11, with some nocked up b**** at home, and a run down car.

Read ANY charles dickens story (y know, the type that examiners are just SO happy to make you study for a diploma)

then read ....eani-meani-miny-mo.....Alias, and tell me which one is better.


it's funny how people don't even take into consideration that comci writers, make books, write movies, Tv shows, ect.

what i hate the most thoug, is how the goverments (US, UK, ECT) aren't even trying to get kids off of their PS2 and reading, yeas, READING (ya know, like you are required to do to become succeful in life) comics or somesuch. People studying for GCSE's shouldn't have to read Romeo and juliet (boring as hell), but something that they would like. A lot of people like fantasy or sci-fi, so why not let them read LOTR or Starship troops, a lot of people know who superman is, why not let them read Kingdom Come?!

 

[Lt. Figgnuts]

Originally posted by FlameHead
So comic shop nerds are stereotyped to be illproportioned people now?

Well, no, but I mean the grossly overweight thing. The rest of it is just a side note.

 

[Acro]

There are no better group of people that analyse different factors than comicbook readers.

 

[THE8th]

you'd think it to be a stero-type but its just a thing. People who read comics are usually weak,fat,wear glasses or are 50 years old men who are fat and have beards. But when I read interveiws with these wreslers who were probably brought up into a very repulication family and were school yard bullies and for it got all the girls. And there yapping about starting their own comic store, or that they've read comics all their life. Us nerds in theroy after a life of alienation from women and friendship, tend to strike back at the world which has shunned us and become big time derectors, Great vissonaries of the generation. And end up becomeing filthy ****ing rich. Becouse we are on a diffrent imaginative track then the rest of the world. I'd like to find out were the hot chicks who are into comics and punk have been hideing and go find them.

 

[vegeta21]

I just did a presentation in my popular literature class on comics and graphic novels last week.

 

[DBM]

I have to chime in on this.

IMO there is a reason for the stereotypes. When I go into my local comic store every Wed. I'm surrounded by the obese, bearded, socially inept, comic geeks in their stained, black Vampirella or Lady Death t-shirts. I feel totally out of place being a clean-cut professional just getting off work and going to the store in my khakis and a polo shirt.

But I don't really care because we all share the love of comics.

But I do hate the gamers that hang out in there. F***ing gamers.

BTW, while Watchmen is an excellent comic, one of my favorites, it doesn't show the average person how "grown-up" comics can be. It's still about superheroes, evil plots, and mysterious villans.

If you really want to show people what comics are capable of have them read MAUS by Art Spiegelman. It's IMO the best comic story ever written. If you haven't read it, pick it up.

 

[Kevin Roegele]

Get this; I only know of one comicbook shop, but not only is it staffed by TWO women, atleast 45% of the customers are women! Oh yes. And every single one of them is 20-30, and the majority are Go-Aths. The store foucusses mostly independent and cult books about teenage girls and talking rabbits, but they have a lot of mainstream back issues and trade paperbacks.

I wouldn't go as far as to say it's a cool place, but it's certainly not your typical comicbook shop (as far as I know, I've only been in one other).

 

[Kevin Roegele]

Here's my take; comicbooks themsleves are cool, and to collect them is somewhat cool (M. Night Shayamalan, Nicolas Cage, Samuel L. Jackson, Shaquile O'Neal, Billy Zane and Kevin Roegele all have large collections). To be obsessed with them is not, and that makes you a geek. Same goes for Star Trek, Star Wars, Dungeons & Dragons stuff, and so on. If you value it more than you should do - see it as more of a hobby, devote your life to it insome way - then it's SAD, and you are a LOSER.

 

[THE8th]

The guys who work in comic stores are the result of one looking at the girls in comic stores. Guy+looks at girl in comic store= Fat guy who works in comic store. Get the whole lord of the rings thing I got going here