Comics

[Old_Style]

No.

Since Bloom County stopped I'm satisfied with my Dilbert deskcalendar.

I've always been partial to the Far Side desk calendar.

[The Artful Dodger]

I used to buy comics religiously when I was a kid, namely DC Comics, X-Men (the one Marvel comic I liked collecting), and as I grew older, it was Spawn and whatever English translated manga I could find. I also have a few Chinese comic collections (manhua), but they're fairly mainstream like Oriental Heroes (aka Dragon Tiger Gate) and Fung Wan (aka Cloud and Wind or The Storm Riders).

[knapplc]

i will say that i absolutely dread going to my local comic shop though, that place is creepy nerd city and they always want to talk to me. i keep trying to tell them i'm only interested in Dark Tower, here's your $3.50, please let me leave now

I don't really go to comic shops but I feel the same way at video game shops and I would bet that's the same kind of experience.

There's always that fringe element with every collectible, it seems. There's nothing wrong with comic books or video games, but in each genre there are those people who care a little too much, or who get into it a little too much, and I'm not even talking about the cosplay freakazoids.

I like Legos and action figures and whatnot, but I'm not "in" to either of them all that much. Every time I try to do some function that involves afficianadoes of either, I get the creeps because it seems like the crazies just come out of the woodwork.

[Inukchuk]

i will say that i absolutely dread going to my local comic shop though, that place is creepy nerd city and they always want to talk to me. i keep trying to tell them i'm only interested in Dark Tower, here's your $3.50, please let me leave now

That is hilarious... I actually switched comic shops because there was this guy behind the counter that wore purple sunglasses and would keep me there for a half hour every week going on about how good all the comics I wasn't reading were.

There are comic nerds (like myself), and then there are comic nerds - you know, the ones that dress up like Wolverine even though it's nowhere close to Halloween...

[Dan Lambskin]

i will say that i absolutely dread going to my local comic shop though, that place is creepy nerd city and they always want to talk to me. i keep trying to tell them i'm only interested in Dark Tower, here's your $3.50, please let me leave now

That is hilarious... I actually switched comic shops because there was this guy behind the counter that wore purple sunglasses and would keep me there for a half hour every week going on about how good all the comics I wasn't reading were.

There are comic nerds (like myself), and then there are comic nerds - you know, the ones that dress up like Wolverine even though it's nowhere close to Halloween...

yeah...this guy is just more creepy than anything...always wears a winter hat, scraggly hair, bad teeth...then he has a bunch of teenage nerds working for him.

[DbacksRback]

Calvin and Hobbes Yukon Ho! was one of the only 15 books I brought with me to college.

Thats where im at i own like 5 Calvin and Hobbes books

[bigken117]

Calvin and Hobbes Yukon Ho! was one of the only 15 books I brought with me to college.

Thats where im at i own like 5 Calvin and Hobbes books

Holla
Them and Far Side books never get old.

[Simulacrum]

I used to be a huge comic book fan. My favorite will always be Amazing Spider Man, I still buy that comic. The indies I used to love include-

Cerebus... so great. RIP. (Dave Sim)

HATE (Peter Bagge )

Eightball (Daniel Clowes)

[Yoda]

Calvin and Hobbes Yukon Ho! was one of the only 15 books I brought with me to college.

Thats where im at i own like 5 Calvin and Hobbes books

Holla
Them and Far Side books never get old.

Agreed. Although I don't enjoy the new C/B books that much. Farside is awesome.

[mweir145]

I wish Bill Watterson would have written Calvin and Hobbes for longer than he did. 10 years wasn't enough.