Why do comic fans get stereotyped so much?

[superboyprime]

A friend linked me to this yesterday, and I just had to share. Written and drawn by some guy who works in a comic book shop, Our Valued Customers is a webstrip in which he quotes actual things he's heard his customers say.



Some other stand-outs beneath the cut...

Comments

[big_daddy_d]

You're very lucky. After reading that blog, I actually use to want to work at a comic store... now I'm seriously second guessing that as I doubt I'd have the patience. If I have any stories, it involves a good bug of mine, see he always bashes Superman and want to know why? Because of Superman's invulnerability. Not for the reasons you think. See with all of Supe's powers, he honest to god believes that he should be able to handle anything and anyone just like that. When the subject of Lex comes up I have to remind him of Lex's genius and how he knows Supe's weakness to use against him... he STILL argues. I bring up how there are plenty others out there just as powerful or at least powerful enough to hurt Superman in a fight... he doesn't buy it. I bring up Superman's weakness and ways he can be beat... he still argues. Trust me... he's my boy but he grinds my gears with this argument. I even go as far as to use the most basic come back: That if there was no real threat to Superman, the damn book would just be boring. He STILLL argues.

I remember you bringing up those who like only A-Listers. You know what's funny is this same friend, there are plenty times when he doesn't care about b-listers and lower, but all it takes is seeing them in a video game, movie, t.v. show, etc for him to even build an interest when I already told him of said characters previously.

One more thing I gotta bring up... show recommendations.. he often asks me what shows should he watch. I'm going to bring up a recent debate we had. I recommended Walking Dead. He has no interest and then when I say at least check it out, trust he's been into zombie stuff before, we get into a debate about how much he tried to get me into Naruto and don't give that a chance. Now here's the ridiculousness of his argument... More than once, I told him... I had NO interest in Naruto. Before he even repeatedly reccomended it.. I tell him... checked it out... not interested. Eventually I do at least give it a second chance and while I don't think it's as bad as I thought... I tell him... it's at the VERY bottom of my list of interests... and he still argues saying I never gave the show a chance when I, in fact, have... more than once.. yet he literally doesn't give a show a chance at all unless later on he comes across it by accident or saw it in another form of media when I recommended it to begin with.