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

[espanolbot]

That's true, but it helps if you know who he wasm, what he did and that his name was Nikola, not Nicholas.

It's like saying that Rasputin's first name was Gregory.

[darklorelei]

Oh, hahaha, I didn't even notice that they put Nicholas there. Hee!

[arilou_skiff]

To be fair, english people have a horrible tendency to do that. (Virgil? Plato? Ovid? Tully?)

[llei]

Nicholas Plato?