darchildre: rebis in a purple trenchcoat, looking enigmatic (rebis says:)
[personal profile] darchildre
If I never have to hear "When I was a kid, they were called 'comic books'" again when I'm talking to someone about graphic novels, it will be too soon.

See, okay, a) they are still called comic books. When they are single issues. When they are bound in collections, it's often useful to have another word. (Also, there are some things that are written straight out as graphic novels and never sold in individual issues. Whatever.)

b) Now I know that you've never read anything but newspaper comics and Archie. Look, you don't have to like comics, I don't care, but you can take your condescension somewhere else before I find a hard-back copy of From Hell and beat you over the head with it.

Grar.

Date: 2010-10-21 09:06 pm (UTC)
james: (nightwing robin zort)
From: [personal profile] james
When I was a kid you had to go to the grocery store or bookstore to buy comics! Through snow! Uphill! Barefoot! And they cost 25ยข! Now you have to go to a shop that is filled with comics and toys and you're forced to browse through them all just to find the twenty or so titles you need that month.

Um. I forgot what side I was arguing for.

Date: 2010-10-22 02:14 am (UTC)
umadoshi: umadoshi kanji (PGSM: Mercury (sailor_graphics))
From: [personal profile] umadoshi
Truer words were rarely spoken.

Date: 2010-10-22 06:02 pm (UTC)
silveradept: A kodama with a trombone. The trombone is playing music, even though it is held in a rest position (Default)
From: [personal profile] silveradept
You'd use From Hell? I'd grab a handy copy of Lost Girls and give 'em a whomp. Possibly because I want them to also have to see that the medium isn't just kids comics in a strikingly visual way.

Date: 2010-10-22 07:17 pm (UTC)
silveradept: A kodama with a trombone. The trombone is playing music, even though it is held in a rest position (Default)
From: [personal profile] silveradept
Ah, well, then, Jack it is! And for extra insult, we suggest concocting some words to go along with singing the Mickey Mouse March as you beat them.

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