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COMICS! |OT| March 2015. Warning: can be hazardous to your financial health.

Owzers

Member
I rented Dracula Untold and believe I will enjoy watching it.

what's the easiest way to get help from Marvels digital code redemption? Issue 41 of Avengers didn't even have a code where it should be and Secret Avengers #9 gave me Axis Hobgoblin.
 
Finally found the perfect stand for this figure
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GAMEPROFF

Banned
What if we want more women in comic shops, but we're also afraid to talk to them?

These are the questions that keep me awake at night.

I'm generally afraid of talking to anyone, anyway.
I understand what you mean, bro :/

I always feel very akward when I talk with women about superheros and comicbooks. But I am very insecure anyway, so maybe that plays together. Even when I talk to my best friend about the amazing stuff that will come to the cinema in the next couple of years. I always feel like the comicbook guy from The Simpsons.
 

fauxtrot

Banned
I understand what you mean, bro :/

I always feel very akward when I talk with women about superheros and comicbooks. But I am very insecure anyway, so maybe that plays together. Even when I talk to my best friend about the amazing stuff that will come to the cinema in the next couple of years. I always feel like the comicbook guy from The Simpsons.

You just have to embrace the nerdiness... some girls dig it. If you're talking to one that doesn't, she ain't the lady for you.
 
Kipp my man happy birthday
What if we want more women in comic shops, but we're also afraid to talk to them?

These are the questions that keep me awake at night.

I'm generally afraid of talking to anyone, anyway.

yeea, unfortunately i'm in that boat as well
 

Cade

Member
I was pretty sure Kipp's birthday was the 5th but maybe my list o' birthdays is wrong? If I'm wrong HB kipp
 

GAMEPROFF

Banned
I like Collectors :(

You just have to embrace the nerdiness... some girls dig it. If you're talking to one that doesn't, she ain't the lady for you.
I do. But just only to myself :/

I just feel bad when I have to admit it or when I read a floppy in the public... Its one of those german things, comics are labeled here as for children only...
 

GAMEPROFF

Banned
I've only seen this one, to be fair.

It drops the ball at the end with the "nerds are scared to talk to girls" checkbox.
Its a lot about clichees, but I like how Eddie and his wife interact.. Give them another try, they can be read for free on spider-mancrawlspace.com :)
 
I understand what you mean, bro :/

I always feel very akward when I talk with women about superheros and comicbooks. But I am very insecure anyway, so maybe that plays together. Even when I talk to my best friend about the amazing stuff that will come to the cinema in the next couple of years. I always feel like the comicbook guy from The Simpsons.

Hah, my friends actually call me Comic Book Guy, because the only thing I'm nerdier about than comics is The Simpsons. I don't have a ponytail though.

I'd never read comics in public anymore, which is a shame because I like to go to coffee shops to read on days off but I have to stick to wordz books now. The last time I tried comics, I got loudly called a pedophile and the same guy told a family "you'd want to watch your children around that fella." So that killed that. Same reason I'm cagey about buying books in town as well. Bought the first issue of Doctor Who Comic on lunch break last Friday, got a look of absolute death from about four people.

Sometimes I will risk it in the doctor's waiting room though, because most people in there are on phones or tablets anyway.

Movies aren't as big a problem, though I have to hear about Guardians of the Galaxy being terrible every day since I wanted to see it for my birthday outing with them. Usually I just smile and nod through the TV talk, though they only watch Gotham and one of them watches The Flash.
 
I once read that issue of the incredible hulk where the hulk was teamed with punisher because he wanted to stay angry and fought a pack of talking poodles in public. I made sure to emphasize this to whoever glanced over.
 

fauxtrot

Banned
Hah, my friends actually call me Comic Book Guy, because the only thing I'm nerdier about than comics is The Simpsons. I don't have a ponytail though.

I'd never read comics in public anymore, which is a shame because I like to go to coffee shops to read on days off but I have to stick to wordz books now. The last time I tried comics, I got loudly called a pedophile and the same guy told a family "you'd want to watch your children around that fella." So that killed that. Same reason I'm cagey about buying books in town as well. Bought the first issue of Doctor Who Comic on lunch break last Friday, got a look of absolute death from about four people.

Sometimes I will risk it in the doctor's waiting room though, because most people in there are on phones or tablets anyway.

Movies aren't as big a problem, though I have to hear about Guardians of the Galaxy being terrible every day since I wanted to see it for my birthday outing with them. Usually I just smile and nod through the TV talk, though they only watch Gotham and one of them watches The Flash.

What kind of awful alternate universe do you live in? This sounds terrible and I'm sorry. Come move to CA, people love nerds here.
 
Reading the Mystery of the Star Sapphire arc in the Green Lantern Omnibus and Daniel Acuna is on art and his work is the best I have seen of his. I pulled his Uncanny Avengers stuff off the shelf and I don't think it pops as much. I think it's the coloring even though he colors it all, the GL stuff has more atmosphere to it.
 

PsychBat!

Banned
What kind of awful alternate universe do you live in? This sounds terrible and I'm sorry. Come move to CA, people love nerds here.

Yeah, this sounds fucked. I mean, really fucked. I will echo fauxtrot's invitation to come to Cali. It's great here.
 
Last time I read paper comix in a coffee shop, it was during a spare half hour on a Wednesday morning. I had Drifter and I think Batgirl so I read Drifter so people would know I only read comics for adults
I'd never read comics in public anymore, which is a shame because I like to go to coffee shops to read on days off but I have to stick to wordz books now. The last time I tried comics, I got loudly called a pedophile and the same guy told a family "you'd want to watch your children around that fella." So that killed that. Same reason I'm cagey about buying books in town as well. Bought the first issue of Doctor Who Comic on lunch break last Friday, got a look of absolute death from about four people.
What the actual fuck, that's terrible
 

tim1138

Member
If she really cared she would have bought you the color editions.

Nothing says "I love you" like beautiful Nathan Fairbairn colors.

Reading the Mystery of the Star Sapphire arc in the Green Lantern Omnibus and Daniel Acuna is on art and his work is the best I have seen of his. I pulled his Uncanny Avengers stuff off the shelf and I don't think it pops as much. I think it's the coloring even though he colors it all, the GL stuff has more atmosphere to it.

I would disagree, I think his work on Uncanny Avengers is far superior to his GL run. I actually had to look up his GL issues because I couldn't even remember what they looked like. I don't think his GL work is bad, but I think his aesthetic I'd a better fit for UA and he doesn't hit the same highs on GL that Reis and Mahnke did.
 

Filthy Slug

Crowd screaming like hounds at the heat of the chase/ All the colors of the rainbow flood my face
Hah, my friends actually call me Comic Book Guy, because the only thing I'm nerdier about than comics is The Simpsons. I don't have a ponytail though.

I'd never read comics in public anymore, which is a shame because I like to go to coffee shops to read on days off but I have to stick to wordz books now. The last time I tried comics, I got loudly called a pedophile and the same guy told a family "you'd want to watch your children around that fella." So that killed that. Same reason I'm cagey about buying books in town as well. Bought the first issue of Doctor Who Comic on lunch break last Friday, got a look of absolute death from about four people.

Sometimes I will risk it in the doctor's waiting room though, because most people in there are on phones or tablets anyway..

Where the fuck do you live, man? That's some cartoony, goofy shit right there.

Edit: I'm getting pretty fucking angry just thinking about your situation, my dude.
 

Bii

Member
Hah, my friends actually call me Comic Book Guy, because the only thing I'm nerdier about than comics is The Simpsons. I don't have a ponytail though.

I'd never read comics in public anymore, which is a shame because I like to go to coffee shops to read on days off but I have to stick to wordz books now. The last time I tried comics, I got loudly called a pedophile and the same guy told a family "you'd want to watch your children around that fella." So that killed that. Same reason I'm cagey about buying books in town as well. Bought the first issue of Doctor Who Comic on lunch break last Friday, got a look of absolute death from about four people.

Sometimes I will risk it in the doctor's waiting room though, because most people in there are on phones or tablets anyway.

Movies aren't as big a problem, though I have to hear about Guardians of the Galaxy being terrible every day since I wanted to see it for my birthday outing with them. Usually I just smile and nod through the TV talk, though they only watch Gotham and one of them watches The Flash.

Oh gosh, this sounds horrible. I've taken my comics out before and even to work, no one really says anything other than "what are you reading?" just to make small talk.
 
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