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Wednesday, December 05, 2007

Occasional Links: The Super-Poke Edition

Tubby: American Gigolo?


A Little Lulu story in which Tubby leverages his appeal to the opposite sex for material goods, and the sisters learn to get their groove back.

Also, the similarities are striking:

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Is your relationship Facebook-worthy?

"When a couple was "going steady" in the 1950s, the young man might have let his girlfriend wear his Varsity team sweater or given her his fraternity pin. But the 1960s swept aside those rituals. Now the Facebook link has become a publicly-recognized symbol of a reasonably serious intent short of being engaged or moving in together."

To poke or not to poke?

"i was hanging out up at a conference in Seattle, and all of a sudden poke wasn't this weird thing that meant i wanted to bang someone... it was like a light tap on the shoulder in the blogosphere. i started scrolling down a list of friends on my mobile phone and just poking several people at random. poke, poke, poke. and i giggled at myself. i was giddy, drunk with the power of poke!"

MySpace or Facebook?

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Comic Book Guy: Stereotype?



Cheryl starts off a debate as to whether the "comic book nerd" stereotype has any validity. (And does she get called a "bitch" for simply expressing her opinion and also happening to be a member of the double-x chromosome club? Why yes she does. Shocking...simply shocking, I say!)

"Sadly, reader-of-superhero-comics equals emotionally-stunted-fanboy to many. Normal adults enjoy their superheroes in video games, television shows and movies. Superheroes are about to have the best year ever. Readers of superhero comics? Well, they need much better PR. We aren't all Comic Book Guy! Someone needs to tell the masses that so that guys aren't afraid to leave that Infinite Crisis trade in plain sight. Or buy it in the first place."

She elaborates in the comments section of another post:


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I have to wonder how much of my own behavior is affected by that stereotype. Love & Rockets, Strangers in Paradise, DMZ and Stagger Lee are prominently displayed on my bookshelf next to ‘real’ books, but I’ve got my old X-Men and WS books tucked away in buckets from IKEA on the bottom of the floor."

And then there is the quote from me at home last weekend, reflecting not so much on the indy vs. superhero comic issue but the single-copy vs. trades:

"Honey, let's get a big box to put all the floppies in...and just keep the trades and hardcovers on the shelf. Because these comic books look nasty on the shelf."

And you know what? I stand by that. They look nasty on the shelf, all bent-up with no spines. Even Hippy McHipster can get away with reading fluff like DC's Our Worlds At War if it's in a handsomely-bound book format. But a single-issue with one of those adds for Corn Nuts on the back cover? Nerdy.

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"Would Frank Miller and Jim Lee combined make s**t?"

Two geeks read Goddamn Batman, as envisioned by Mighty God King:

"GEEK ONE: S**t yes! This s**t is a parody!
GEEK TWO: Frank Miller is feeding us s**t and making us love it!
GEEK ONE: I love reading s**t!
GEEK TWO: This is classic s**t right here!"


(via Journalista)

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Meet A Cartoonist Who Has Balls!

At Neatorama.

Note to self: if you're going to do a Google image search on the word "balls" -- be prepared. Actually, if you're going to do a search on "Supergirl," be doubly prepared.

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Video: What I like do when I'm alone and nobody is looking:

15 comments:

  1. Here's a link to that L&O Batman shirt in color. They were previously a series of T-shits:

    http://tiny.cc/ct69d

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  2. If Keifer Sutherland ever leaves 24, they should replace him with the Goddamn Batman.

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  3. apropos of nothing...
    I've lost the ability to think about my picks for Wednesdays without your help.
    You have abandoned us when we need you most.
    I will be flailing helplessly before the rack of "new this week." Think of me today, OccSupes community.

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  4. comic fan stereotypes:

    A. fat, greasy unshowered pompous assholes who may live with their parents.

    B. uppity feminists (lesbians), and "alternative indie" style chicks (who can also be uppity feminists)

    C. gay guys (teh gayz).

    Now these are the people who READ comics, I am not talking about the kid who loves Spiderman.

    The worst part?

    When you MIX the stereotypes into one.

    I know this guy who is exhibit A, AND exhibit C, and he frightens me.

    That's why I go to my comic store, it's owned and operated by some gays, and I rarely run into the A types.

    Mostly just C's with a couple B's. No Magic/Pokemon/other lameass card game players or anything. No slave Leia pinups.

    Just good ol gay gene decorating with paint on the walls, nice and clean and orderly, and that's why it won the Eisner last year!

    PS> We have CAPE here at Zeus, and Friends of Lulu are always there, hint hint

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  5. I love how the comic book guy's biggest proponent is us instead of the media.

    People like Sammy do more to create an image of the unwashed fan than almost everywhere. What about everyone who reads comics that is not A, B or C? No one will ever hear stories about that. They'll just here how there store is not like that or they aren't like that.

    The truth is A's been a minority for so long. We need to start acting that way.

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  6. That Fatboy Slim, Christopher Walken/Spike Jones video is perhaps my all time favorite video, but that I'ma Facebook and I'm a MySpace is pretty damned funny.

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  7. predo-

    i was totally joking.

    they are stereotypes, because there is SOME truth behind them, but there are PLENTY of comic fans that are just your every day joes, or business men, or girls who like glitter, or whatever.

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  8. and im dyslexic. pedro.

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  9. A documentary I'm working on about comic book geekness.
    http://www.blip.tv/file/468537

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  10. I'm fairly sure that the Comic book Guy is based on the longtime owner of Emerald City Comics (and Nostalgia Collectibles?) in Eugene, Oregon - which also happens to be the inspiration for Shelbyville. (Matt Groening, who grew up in Oregon, based Krusty the Clown on Portland's Rusty the Clown and declared Springfield, Oregon, Eugene's neighbor, 'the real Springfield'). Apropos of nothing.

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  11. *has sudden desire to see a fan film of Law and Order with superheroes*

    Goddamn! :)

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  12. Honestly this is how I imagine Christopher Walken spending his day, anyway.

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  13. Even Hippy McHipster can get away with reading fluff like DC's Our Worlds At War if it's in a handsomely-bound book format. But a single-issue with one of those adds for Corn Nuts on the back cover? Nerdy.

    Hell, it's impractical. The way to store single issues is in labeled longboxes with dividers!

    Speaking of which, have you seen those new(ish) drawer-style longboxes? They're sexy in that way that only well-designed organizational tools can be. Rowr!

    Oh, god. I really am a nerd. But I have really nice longboxes!

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  14. Personally, I dream of a L&O spinoff where She-Hulk goes to work for Jack McCoy. There are some recurring defense attorneys I'd like to see her deal with ;-)

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  15. Personally, I dream of a L&O spinoff where She-Hulk goes to work for Jack McCoy. There are some recurring defense attorneys I'd like to see her deal with ;-)


    All. Kinds. Of. Win! :)

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