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syncope at 01:48pm on 19/02/2008
syncope at 01:48pm on 19/02/2008I have the same sort of relationship with comics as a lot of long-time readers. I used to read Marvel and now never do. For me the break came for good during the whole storyline where Magneto was rejuvenated. Idk. Maybe it was after like the 8th Ultimate Xmen. Sometime around then. I was done.
The thing is my real super comics shame is absolutely a Marvel product--Gambit. Dude, Gambit is the character that gets dissed SO HARD by "serious" comic fans. He is a romanic superhero! That's all he is! I think he had to be invented as a way to trick girls into reading comics. EXCELLENT, I say! I am not normally a completionist with comics, way way too lazy for that. But I own every Gambit book. Some of them I had to do the dreaded trade and track path with. But I did it. I stuck by it. I have THEM ALL. You have NO IDEA the bullshit I endured over this with comic fanboys. Comic fanboys are notoriously sexist, but my general experience with them tends towards the gaze hidden under Spidey books and chatty-chatty-chat with store employees. Like I always say, comic shops are like porn stores--people don't want to get busted with their kinks (for most comic people judge each other on what they read). I have actually had dudes laugh in my face when trying to track down a Gambit book. It's a weird sort of feeling to be as secure a person as I am and then to actually experience humiliating self-doubt over a damned cartoon character. Fuck you, anyway, comic shop employees who belittle people for their leisure time pursuits. I curse you and present you with my personal triumph:
Gambit
Deadpool
I've been waiting for Gambit since the first X-movie and Z and I have been chewing this bone for-ever. Our moment has come. I wonder if they will do a Gambit short run. I will buy it, you can count on it.
The thing is my real super comics shame is absolutely a Marvel product--Gambit. Dude, Gambit is the character that gets dissed SO HARD by "serious" comic fans. He is a romanic superhero! That's all he is! I think he had to be invented as a way to trick girls into reading comics. EXCELLENT, I say! I am not normally a completionist with comics, way way too lazy for that. But I own every Gambit book. Some of them I had to do the dreaded trade and track path with. But I did it. I stuck by it. I have THEM ALL. You have NO IDEA the bullshit I endured over this with comic fanboys. Comic fanboys are notoriously sexist, but my general experience with them tends towards the gaze hidden under Spidey books and chatty-chatty-chat with store employees. Like I always say, comic shops are like porn stores--people don't want to get busted with their kinks (for most comic people judge each other on what they read). I have actually had dudes laugh in my face when trying to track down a Gambit book. It's a weird sort of feeling to be as secure a person as I am and then to actually experience humiliating self-doubt over a damned cartoon character. Fuck you, anyway, comic shop employees who belittle people for their leisure time pursuits. I curse you and present you with my personal triumph:
Gambit
Deadpool
I've been waiting for Gambit since the first X-movie and Z and I have been chewing this bone for-ever. Our moment has come. I wonder if they will do a Gambit short run. I will buy it, you can count on it.
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