Being a grown man or woman and reading comics in public

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How is it best done?

― adam... (nordicskilla), Thursday, 28 October 2004 18:54 (twenty-one years ago)

And...Hi ILC! It's been a while.

― adam... (nordicskilla), Thursday, 28 October 2004 18:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't do it. I am a shame-based man.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 28 October 2004 18:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Sitting alone in a corner while staring surreptiously at women's breasts.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 28 October 2004 18:58 (twenty-one years ago)

If you're a grown man, why would you give a fuck?

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 28 October 2004 18:59 (twenty-one years ago)

In honesty, I just read them in public and figure people can deal it.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 28 October 2004 19:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Pow! Shazam! Comics! They're not just for kids anymore -- AGAIN!

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 28 October 2004 19:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Amen to that.

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 28 October 2004 19:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't do it, though, because I like to keep my shit MINT.

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 28 October 2004 19:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Tep, many people have not heard that argument.

xpost - hahaha David that is the perfect answer.

― adam... (nordicskilla), Thursday, 28 October 2004 19:02 (twenty-one years ago)

"Argument." Come on. It's a bi-annual standard in every Sunday supplement in the country. I stopped worrying about reading comics in public about a week before I stopped asking my mother to kiss my boo-boos when I got a scrapey from my bikey falling down.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 28 October 2004 19:04 (twenty-one years ago)

MINT.

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 28 October 2004 19:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Sorry - MINTEY.

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 28 October 2004 19:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I often read comics in public. I'm not ashamed of it. If anything, I think it lends me a boyish charm.

― Wooden (Wooden), Thursday, 28 October 2004 19:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Am I being called a PUSSY on a web-based comics message board???

― adam... (nordicskilla), Thursday, 28 October 2004 19:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Wholeheartedly.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 28 October 2004 19:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually, in the summer I do, I'll stop and get a cold drink or something on my way home from the comic shop and read on the patio.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 28 October 2004 19:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Sexy - Grown women reading comics in public.

― Wooden (Wooden), Thursday, 28 October 2004 19:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Sexy - Grown women.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 28 October 2004 19:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Sexy - Growing women in a vat to be your private army.

― Wooden (Wooden), Thursday, 28 October 2004 19:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Only if it's an Army of Loooooooooovvvve.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 28 October 2004 19:13 (twenty-one years ago)

STAND FIRM, TRUE BELIEVER! Crack open that copy of Venom / Carnage with PRIDE! Show off that new issue of Worldwatch! There is only SHAME in allowing the BEADY EYES and CLUCKING TONGUES of people to UNDERMINE your love of comics! EXCELSIOR!

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 28 October 2004 19:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Have I talked about my favorite childhood memories of riding my bike to the center of town on Saturdays, paying my paper route bill, going to the comic store up the road, browsing through all the back issue bins for hours, buying loads of stuff, then going into the Baskin-Robbins next door to the store & sitting down w/ a large Coke & flipping through my books until my soda was done? That was the stuff.

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 28 October 2004 19:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Dr Pepper and Andy Capp's Hot Fries for me, and I walked instead of biking, and we didn't have a Baskin-Robbins in town ... hm, now saying "same here" sounds less than accurate. But y'know.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 28 October 2004 19:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Hmmm, in the summer it was Slurpees by the river bank (i had to ride my bike across town to the most awesome comic shop ever! It seemed like every old bookstore in creepy movies except it had a wall of comics. I was there again last summer and they've brightened the place up, and while I'm sure that's great for business, it sucked mystery-wise).

― Huk-L, Thursday, 28 October 2004 19:22 (twenty-one years ago)

"Yeah, same here, except I drove to town, and it was actually Las Vegas, and I actually went to the Bunny Ranch, and ... well, you know."

God, I could NEVER eat any sort of greasy thing while reading my comics. I would've had a conniption fit. Never mind that I'm naturally oily; I'd sometime leave fingerprints on books w/ black covers, like I was Dr. Phosphorous. Call me ... NURSE SWEATYMITTS!

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 28 October 2004 19:23 (twenty-one years ago)

We just had a general store. Since it was NH and there was no sales tax, I could budget my allowance down to the last nickel, debating which was better, a 75-cent Superman or a 60-cent Marvel Team-Up, 7 atomic fireballs, and a Swedish fish. Sometimes this took an hour.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 28 October 2004 19:25 (twenty-one years ago)

The height of greatness, though, would be to reread comics (or read comics traded/loaned from friends) while watching Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends, and THEN going up to town, buying comics and soda, and watching little league baseball while reading/drinking.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 28 October 2004 19:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Me: Calamity Comics in HARROW

after school every Friday.

sweet thing of choice: those red shoelace things? not red vines, longer

― adam... (nordicskilla), Thursday, 28 October 2004 19:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Read Eightball with an air of smug superiority crossed with reverence. Over a pint.

― vic Fluro, Thursday, 28 October 2004 22:14 (twenty-one years ago)

The problem for me is that I sometimes read my comics while waiting at a local Inn (an Inn that brews their own beer) for my co-workers to arrive for drinks. So, I'm reading a comic when they arrive and I get the obligatory mussing-up of the hair and asked, "You always bring your work home with you?" So, that's not funny but they just don't understand.

The problem I have is seeing guys out in public cafes reading comics so that they look cool but you know it's just for show from the way they're holding it. A real comic reader will hold the book somewhat delicately, maybe near the edges and honestly seem interested in what's going on in there. As opposed to some yuppie a-hole bending the book around on itself at the seam and later setting his coffee cup down on it.

― Vermont Girl (Vermont Girl), Friday, 29 October 2004 11:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I appear to be a fake comic book reader with a couple of thousand issues. (okay, not the coffee stuff)

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 29 October 2004 11:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Okay, I'm sorry. One can read however one wants. In my case, all the guys from the shop I hang out with hold the comics like they're bombs or babies or something.

― Vermont Girl (Vermont Girl), Friday, 29 October 2004 11:57 (twenty-one years ago)

MINT.

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 29 October 2004 12:39 (twenty-one years ago)

coffee rings = good reading
broken spine, loose pages, yellow highlighter, post-it bookmarks = better reading
extensive commentary w.multi-underlined ballpoint, widespread unidentified stainclouds seeping through whole sections, beards and glasses drawn on female lead, holes cut in pages to see what's going to happen further on, concluding section reduced to charred stub = best reading

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 29 October 2004 13:36 (twenty-one years ago)

MINT BOMB!

― Huk-L, Friday, 29 October 2004 13:41 (twenty-one years ago)

holes cut in pages to see what's going to happen further on

Why have I never thought of this!

Once I read my comics I can turn them into completely different stories via this method, jumbling up panels at will!

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 29 October 2004 13:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh god, if I had a scanner and photoshop, I would devote my life to a panel-by-panel mash-up of the History of the Universe, the way it was meant to be!!!

― Huk-L, Friday, 29 October 2004 13:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually, fuck a scanner, I've got a giant box full of quarter bin comics that I can sacrifice to REWRITING history!

― Huk-L, Friday, 29 October 2004 13:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Though eventually I'll get someone to scan it in and maybe post it.
This is my weekend project.

― Huk-L, Friday, 29 October 2004 14:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Awesome.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 29 October 2004 14:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Huk, you da man.

― Wooden (Wooden), Friday, 29 October 2004 16:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm gonna need scissors, glue, and a big scrapbook. And some booze.

― Huk-L, Friday, 29 October 2004 16:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Do you really need the scissors, glue and scrapbook then?

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Friday, 29 October 2004 16:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, for symbolic purposes, I guess.

― Huk-L, Friday, 29 October 2004 17:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, talk to the guy w/ Greek glyphs in his e-mail address about symbolism!

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 29 October 2004 17:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I haven't done this in ages, simply because the only time I read outside the home is on public transport, and I always have a book with me, which is easier reading than a comic on a crowded tube, and you don't have to scramble around in your bag for another one every five minutes.

I used to do it. Once someone said to me, in a very sneering tone, "Have you ever read Dostoyevsky?" I was pleased that he chose someone where I have read most of his work.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 29 October 2004 18:59 (twenty-one years ago)

The best way to read a comic in public is to burn every page once you're done with it, and hurl the burning balls of paper at the faces of children.

― Vic Fluro, Friday, 29 October 2004 22:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I wouldn't read comics in public, what if a big kid tries to take them off me?

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 30 October 2004 15:12 (twenty-one years ago)

kick ash in his face!

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 30 October 2004 15:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't read comics in public because my laptop might get stolen.

― Tom (Groke), Sunday, 31 October 2004 14:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Beyond that Vic Fluro is correct - in public is not as crucial as in a pub.

― Tom (Groke), Sunday, 31 October 2004 14:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Holy cow! Making a Franken-Comic is tough work!

― Huk-L, Sunday, 31 October 2004 18:20 (twenty-one years ago)

keep going, champ.

― Wooden (Wooden), Sunday, 31 October 2004 18:24 (twenty-one years ago)

So far (and I haven't actually glued anything yet) I seem to be gravitating toward single page setpieces. I mean, it's hard to maintain any illusion of continuity over several pages with parts culled from dozens of books.
I feel like Wm. S. Burroughs up in here!
Also, making that first cut into a comic! Oooh, the reluctance. But once the first cut's done with, hey awesome!
I haven't been able to slice into some of my ratty old 70s comics, just because I keep thinking, "but what if someday I need to reference the time Supergirl was arrested by the Kandor Honour Guard?"

― Huk-L, Sunday, 31 October 2004 18:29 (twenty-one years ago)

You could cut up that late Alex Toth issue of GL and paste it back together in the original order. #181, was it?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 31 October 2004 21:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually, the one page I have as finished as I have anything starts off with a panel featuring Kyle (Green Lantern) Rayner bitching out Oliver (Green Arrow) Queen (who's off panel and not mentioned) (from the "Black Circle: Urban Knights" storyline) about the constant comparisons to Hal (Green Lantern) Jordan. Then the next panel is a Weaponer of Qward (from GL Vol. 3 #11) whining about that accursed Hal Jordan and how much he hates that name and "now..." and then Dr. Fate (from Justice League Annual #1) says "...NOW!" and lets out a big Ankh-blast which leads to two irradiated, skeletal figures (from S.T.A.R. Corps #1) caught in a blast and then Hal (Green Lantern) Jordan in skeletal form (from the JLofA issue where Superman and Captain Marvel go at with the JSA and Earth-S weirdos like Ibis and his Ibistick watching). And then the page ends with a panel of two Bludhaven cops in their prowler laughing (from Nightwing #66). I'm really in love with the cops laughing panel and I'm thinking about getting it copied 20 times (the scrap book I'm putting this all into) so that every page ends the same way.

― Huk-L, Sunday, 31 October 2004 23:55 (twenty-one years ago)

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