Things that people incorrectly assume about you because you are a comic fan

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1. That you are also a Trekkie.

― chap who would dare to be a nerd, not a geek (chap), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 00:12 (nineteen years ago)

2. That you still live with your parents.

― The Jazz Guide to Penguins on Compact Disc (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 00:20 (nineteen years ago)

3. that i want to talk about vampires

― electro-acoustic lycanthrope (orion), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 00:42 (nineteen years ago)

4. THINKS I LIKE MARVEL COMICS

― chaki (chaki), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 00:58 (nineteen years ago)

3 is more what I'm talking about - I find in this day and age people are generally accepting of you not being a sad virgin loser, but they still tend to think that you're totally indiscriminate and will like anything vaguely sci-fi or horror related - this thread was inspired by a very close friend of mine (who's known me for ten years!) thinking I was hugely into Star Trek based on no other evidence than the fact I read comics.

― chap who would dare to be a nerd, not a geek (chap), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 01:01 (nineteen years ago)

5. That liking comics = liking all comics, and that I'm open to any comics-related discussion. It's like running into someone with an iPod and saying, "Oh, hey! You listen to music! You must love Bonnie Raitt! Let's talk about her, yay!"

― Deric W. Haircare (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 01:03 (nineteen years ago)

Can I like Star Trek a lot and not be a Trekkie?

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 01:10 (nineteen years ago)

No, and you also must live with your parents and be a virgin.

― chap who would dare to be a nerd, not a geek (chap), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 01:13 (nineteen years ago)

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 01:15 (nineteen years ago)

There are three levels of liking star trek.

1. Liking to watch it.

2. Liking to watch it, knowing too much about it, possibly having read some books.

3. Wearing plastic ears.

― Keywords: revenge, knife, granddaughter, demonic-possession, rock-star, eel (Aus, Tuesday, 30 May 2006 01:18 (nineteen years ago)

That I like animation. I really don't like 99% of all animation I've ever seen.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 01:18 (nineteen years ago)

I think you're skipping a level of Star Trek appreciation.

(scroll down to immortal ethan/ronan exchange)

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 01:34 (nineteen years ago)

ha, i was just thinking about that while watching star trek: first contact the other night

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 01:52 (nineteen years ago)

SIMONTRIFE: haha its all coming back now
Ronan909: deanna LOVES nerds
Ronan909: we're all not losers!
SIMONTRIFE: 'tea, earl grey, HOT'
Ronan909: haha
SIMONTRIFE: she was kind of a bullshit psychic
Ronan909: yeah
Ronan909: she just sounded constantly moany
Ronan909: from hearing everyones pain
SIMONTRIFE: yeah
Ronan909: or else like she was having an orgasm
Ronan909: "captain, the cloud is leaving us"
SIMONTRIFE: her most-used word was 'ohh'
SIMONTRIFE: haha exactly
SIMONTRIFE: 'the cloud has father issues'
Ronan909: haha
SIMONTRIFE: i swear to fucking god i think that was an actual plot
SIMONTRIFE: cloud with father issues
Ronan909: "the cloud is mating with that supernova, we're witnessing the birth of something we know nothing about"
SIMONTRIFE: hahaha
Ronan909: picard (rubbing lotion on head sternly) "deanna have you ever read camus"

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 02:01 (nineteen years ago)

so classic...anyway, carry on!

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 02:04 (nineteen years ago)

The animation thing. YES. Matthew OTM.

― Douglas (Douglas), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 02:50 (nineteen years ago)

Man, I fuckin' love animation.

I am an embarassment to my race.

― Keywords: revenge, knife, granddaughter, demonic-possession, rock-star, eel (Aus, Tuesday, 30 May 2006 03:05 (nineteen years ago)

That I am interested in discussing it in public.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 06:48 (nineteen years ago)

That I draw the little pictures.

― Vic F (Vic Fluro), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 07:41 (nineteen years ago)

9) That you're a goth (especially if you like fantasy/horror comics). Or listen to metal.

To be fair, I think there's is a big overlap on sci-fi/horror/fantasy/comics/roleplayer/goth crowd, which (for me at least) has also the side effect of dissing certain comics (Sandman, Elfquest, etc.) because of their fans.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 08:29 (nineteen years ago)

The fans are just the icing on those particular cakes.

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 08:35 (nineteen years ago)

10. That I give a shit about manga

― Laurah (laurah), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 14:18 (nineteen years ago)

Actually, in terms of assumptions, what I find funnier is the fact that I work at a comic book store, and at least once a day someone walks up to me and asks me whether or not I read comic books. Umm...?

― Laurah (laurah), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 14:21 (nineteen years ago)

the manga thing is sooooo true - fuck that stuff

― and what (ooo), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 14:23 (nineteen years ago)

It's almost worse when the other person is ALSO a comic fan (like the dude next to me in line for X3 who wanted to nitpick old comics, appreciate Emma Frost's costume amirite, etc.).

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

Warlock was at a special superhero movie screening recently, and was hobnobbing with one of the stars, and the star was like, "oh, you like comics too? I just love Hush."
And then Warlock, who wanted to polite, threw up on the star's shoes.

― Warlock Magazine (Warlock Magazine), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 14:27 (nineteen years ago)

Er, what? Do you talk about yourself in third person, or is this some sort of a story?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

Try to imagine it in the voice of Gollum.

― Laurah (laurah), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

what I find funnier is the fact that I work at a comic book store, and at least once a day someone walks up to me and asks me whether or not I read comic books. Umm...?

The biggest comic store in Finland is owned by a woman who must be over almost 60 now, and I remember finding it weird buying my first Vertigo collections from this granny-like person who looked more like a librarian or something. But in reality she's a comics veteran, who has translated a whole bunch of classic series into Finnish ever since the early eighties.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 14:42 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know about the US and the UK, but in Finland it seems like manga and other comics have very different, almost separate readerships - manga fans seem to be mostly teenage girls who don't much care about other comics, in fact I'm not even sure if they count them as part of the same thing. I guess this could be read as a sign of maturation of comics as a medium - just because you like romantic comedies doesn't mean you should like action films.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

No, it's pretty much the same in the US, Tuomas. There are manga readers and there are comics readers and the overlap between the two isn't all that large.

― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

11. That I want to talk about Optic Nerve (fucking college kids.)

― electro-acoustic lycanthrope (orion), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 15:18 (nineteen years ago)

This weekend my wife and I found ourselves surrounded by anime cosplayers at the Prudential Center, a mall/office building/hotel/convention center place. Apparently there was some big anime convention going on. We were kicking back at the food court when like fifty dudes with six-foot cardboard and tinfoil swords came parading about. There were also like 15-year-old girls wearing nothing but wings and underwear and hats with animal ears. My wife, not a comics fan, just assumed that I knew who every character was. The only two I recognized were Mario and Luigi. Even if she doesn't quite understand my comics lust, I'd at least hope my wife would know enough to understand where the line is drawn in regard to obsessive nerdliness.

― barefoot manthing (Garrett Martin), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

12. That I collect the kind of non-comic crap that litters Forbidden Planet (e.g. action figures, Magneto helmets, Buffy posters, etc.)

― DV (dirtyvicar), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 16:05 (nineteen years ago)

13. That I a large portion of the day talking about comics on the internever mind

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 17:03 (nineteen years ago)

14. That I read "52"

― DV (dirtyvicar), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 19:09 (nineteen years ago)

15. That people at a comic con are "my kind of people"

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 19:48 (nineteen years ago)

16. That I'm developmentally arrested.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 19:55 (nineteen years ago)

17. That I think girls are icky.

― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 20:23 (nineteen years ago)

18. That I fall in love with any girl that speaks to me.

― barefoot manthing (Garrett Martin), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 20:32 (nineteen years ago)

17 & 18 are both simultaneously OTM for me.

― electro-acoustic lycanthrope (orion), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 20:40 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, Ian.

― Laurah (laurah), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 03:57 (nineteen years ago)

If I were in a really bad faux-punk band I would call my first album 'Intense and Purposes'.

― chap who would dare to be a nerd, not a geek (chap), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 07:33 (nineteen years ago)

its all in yr minds. i just read aragones fanboy ($4 remaidered). theres a perfectly cute but not hawt gurl out there that might like you.

― molly (bulbs), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 07:34 (nineteen years ago)

did you buy the Wagner Dr Mid-Nite too gaz? tell me if it's worth the fiver!

they're going to have to have a bonfire for all those Crossgen books though

― kit brash (kit brash), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 07:39 (nineteen years ago)

haha yes. altho the salesman tries to sell them to me...i dint see the midnite. but i, *cough*, have it in floppy. i bought the ellis gen13 :(

― molly (bulbs), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 07:44 (nineteen years ago)

CHEAP COMICS

CAN'T RESIST

― kit brash (kit brash), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 20:18 (nineteen years ago)

19. You have some interest in weird board games, card games, tabletop games with bizarre pewter figurines that people paint with painful detail, or pencil-and-paper role playing games.

― mike h. (mike h.), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 20:36 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, Ian.

Laurah officially first ILX poster to make use of "oh, (x)" combination without resorting to wrinklepawning since the meme started? I envy her self-control.

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 21:48 (nineteen years ago)

"oh, laura" and "oh, ian" are IRL memes for us.

― electro-acoustic lycanthrope (orion), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 21:57 (nineteen years ago)

with you two around its more like "oh, oreos" AMIRITE!!?!!?!?!?

― Courtney Gidts (ex machina), Thursday, 1 June 2006 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

20. That I must think Stan Lee is god.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 1 June 2006 19:35 (nineteen years ago)

21. that i'm fat and slovenly. i am skinny and slovenly.

― electro-acoustic lycanthrope (orion), Thursday, 1 June 2006 23:24 (nineteen years ago)

22. that its ok to talk to me about spiderman/Superman/X-Men movies because obviously they're the only movies I like...

― David N (David N.), Thursday, 1 June 2006 23:36 (nineteen years ago)

23. That I want to talk about Superman vs. Batman FITE

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 2 June 2006 03:18 (nineteen years ago)

24. That I never wants to rock.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 2 June 2006 16:52 (nineteen years ago)

25. that i don't read regular books too (surprised I didn't thing of this one first.)

― electro-acoustic lycanthrope (orion), Saturday, 3 June 2006 02:43 (nineteen years ago)

That actually applies to me. Or, I do read a lot of non-fiction, but not too many novels these days. Comics satisfy my need for fiction mostly.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Saturday, 3 June 2006 08:22 (nineteen years ago)

I was gonna repost the numbered bits of this thread under the title "Things that people correctly assume about you because you are a comic fan" but, y'know, I decided against it.

― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Saturday, 3 June 2006 10:55 (nineteen years ago)

This whole thread is OTM about me.

― c(''c) (Leee), Saturday, 3 June 2006 17:16 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

Date: 3 Jul 2006 11:35:17 -0000
From: Christopher Goodnight
To: jon@wizardishungry.com
Subject: Looking for a fangirl

Hey, this may seem outa the blue. Sorry for that. I was reading some posts on ilxor.xom in the "things people incorrectly assume
about you just because you read comics" thread and I saw your name. I have no other excuse except that I am looking for a fangirl.
Who else would put up with my obsessive love of comics. my msn is under tomatosauce6808@hotmail.com

hope to hear from you

Chris

==
This email was sent by Christopher Goodnight (tomatosauce6808@hotmail.com), a user of ilXor.com.
http://ilx.wh3rd.net/index.php

― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Friday, 7 July 2006 05:27 (nineteen years ago)

"Courtney Gidts"

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 7 July 2006 13:49 (nineteen years ago)

So is that "people incorrectly assume I'm a girl" or "people incorrectly assume I will accept their internet requests for sex"?

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Friday, 7 July 2006 14:00 (nineteen years ago)

PRIVATE NOTE TO VERONICA MOSER: IX-NAY ON THE OOK-UP-HAY

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 7 July 2006 14:06 (nineteen years ago)

IF THE LONG BOX IS SAGGIN'
DON'T GO ABAGGIN'

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 7 July 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

roffle roffle roffle roffle

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Friday, 7 July 2006 17:10 (nineteen years ago)

god, you guys are sooooo insensitive. chirs is just trying to find other likeminded people to talk about things he has passions for, unlike you guys who are just cynics.

chris, drop me a line!! ~^_*~

― geekiegrrrl1988 (Leee), Friday, 7 July 2006 19:23 (nineteen years ago)

Don't tempt me, Leee.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 7 July 2006 23:37 (nineteen years ago)

Well since I am planning on remaining Celibate till marriage It would be the other one. never met a guy named Courtney sorry for the confusion thanks for sticking up for me geekiegrrrl1988.

― Christopher Goodnight (saintsaucey), Friday, 7 July 2006 23:41 (nineteen years ago)

um, how about 'jon'?

― 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Friday, 7 July 2006 23:47 (nineteen years ago)

tomatosauce sex

― Cor-Ray (chaki), Saturday, 8 July 2006 00:02 (nineteen years ago)

― Douglas (Douglas), Saturday, 8 July 2006 01:52 (nineteen years ago)

You asking for it, or asking what mine is. I'm male and no. seriously who names a guy courtney...where are you from?

― Christopher Goodnight (saintsaucey), Saturday, 8 July 2006 07:13 (nineteen years ago)

― j blount (papa la bas), Saturday, 8 July 2006 07:32 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not convinced Courtney Taylor-Taylor is the bestest example here.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 8 July 2006 07:55 (nineteen years ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/3e/Idol_courtney_act.JPG/250px-Idol_courtney_act.JPG

― kit brash (kit brash), Saturday, 8 July 2006 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.thinkbabynames.com/meaning/1/Courtney

Courtney is a common male first name, ranking 488 out of 1219 for males of all ages in the 1990 U.S. Census.

― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Saturday, 8 July 2006 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

Bows and Genuflects in your gneeral direction oh great Courtney

― Christopher Goodnight (saintsaucey), Saturday, 8 July 2006 23:21 (nineteen years ago)

26. That your name is, in fact, Courtney.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 9 July 2006 06:18 (nineteen years ago)

― 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Sunday, 9 July 2006 13:17 (nineteen years ago)

Even more roffles!

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Sunday, 9 July 2006 14:30 (nineteen years ago)

This is gold.

― chap who would dare to start Raaatpackin (chap), Sunday, 9 July 2006 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

I'm gone for a few days and I miss out on some of the best threads ever.

― Richard Baez (Johnny Logic), Monday, 10 July 2006 18:33 (nineteen years ago)

Austin is otm

― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Monday, 10 July 2006 20:03 (nineteen years ago)

I'm still eagerly awaiting a report of Christopher and Jon's hot date.

― chap who would dare to start Raaatpackin (chap), Monday, 10 July 2006 20:15 (nineteen years ago)

lol this is what I get for judging a poster by the name Courtney. I tend to forget that not evryone is as honest as me

― Christopher Goodnight (saintsaucey), Monday, 10 July 2006 20:18 (nineteen years ago)

or as handsome, intelligent, and hard-working.

― barefoot manthing (Garrett Martin), Monday, 10 July 2006 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

never said i was handsome or intelligent i just meant that Christopher Goodnight is my real name because i didn't think to do anything but put my real name

― Christopher Goodnight (saintsaucey), Monday, 10 July 2006 20:21 (nineteen years ago)

do you honestly love tomato sauce? are you honestly the saint of sauce? cuz i am the sauce boss.

― Cor-Ray (chaki), Monday, 10 July 2006 20:39 (nineteen years ago)

the name saint was added to my chat nick name Saucey by a friend in a buffy chat room because of my religous beliefs. Why are you giving me a hard time about this. I made a mistake get over it and move on.

― Christopher Goodnight (saintsaucey), Monday, 10 July 2006 20:43 (nineteen years ago)

Courtney is a common male first name, ranking 488 out of 1219 for males of all ages in the 1990 U.S. Census.
Courtney is a common male first name, ranking 488 out of 1219 for males of all ages in the 1990 U.S. Census.
Courtney is a common male first name, ranking 488 out of 1219 for males of all ages in the 1990 U.S. Census.
Courtney is a common male first name, ranking 488 out of 1219 for males of all ages in the 1990 U.S. Census.
Courtney is a common male first name, ranking 488 out of 1219 for males of all ages in the 1990 U.S. Census.
Courtney is a common male first name, ranking 488 out of 1219 for males of all ages in the 1990 U.S. Census.
Courtney is a common male first name, ranking 488 out of 1219 for males of all ages in the 1990 U.S. Census.
Courtney is a common male first name, ranking 488 out of 1219 for males of all ages in the 1990 U.S. Census.
Courtney is a common male first name, ranking 488 out of 1219 for males of all ages in the 1990 U.S. Census.
Courtney is a common male first name, ranking 488 out of 1219 for males of all ages in the 1990 U.S. Census.
Courtney is a common male first name, ranking 488 out of 1219 for males of all ages in the 1990 U.S. Census.
Courtney is a common male first name, ranking 488 out of 1219 for males of all ages in the 1990 U.S. Census.
Courtney is a common male first name, ranking 488 out of 1219 for males of all ages in the 1990 U.S. Census.
Courtney is a common male first name, ranking 488 out of 1219 for males of all ages in the 1990 U.S. Census.
Courtney is a common male first name, ranking 488 out of 1219 for males of all ages in the 1990 U.S. Census.

― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Monday, 10 July 2006 20:48 (nineteen years ago)

Well i didn't know it and i have never met one in person before. get off my back

― Christopher Goodnight (saintsaucey), Monday, 10 July 2006 20:57 (nineteen years ago)

how many girls named "Jon" have you met in person?

― kit brash (kit brash), Monday, 10 July 2006 22:08 (nineteen years ago)

i go by jon!!

― geekiegrrrl1988 (Leee), Monday, 10 July 2006 22:16 (nineteen years ago)

I am sad that the noise board is tenth on this search and ILC appears nowhere in the results I've seen so far. Moral? Comics gets more dates than noise, apparently.

― mike h. (mike h.), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 13:15 (nineteen years ago)

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