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...

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[brandiweed.livejournal.com]

Maybe it's being British and probably a little older than many on the comm, but I can't quite view the past like that, and despair of a world that could.

A couple things: 1) The US doesn't have (for want of a better phrase) many physical scars from WWII-- our country never got bombed so there aren't areas where people in living memory can tell you how they had to rebuild the entire block; 2) American media really, really loves WWII (both in movies and games), perhaps because it was our last "good war" (without all the moral ambiguity and sense that 'we lost' of Vietnam).