Comic Geek~

The con goer.


"Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can."
- Elsa Maxwell, September 28, 1958

I wouldn't be fair to make a book about insulting stereotypes without laughing at myself. I'm a comic geek. A nerd. For years I was a Marvel Zombie. (someone who only buys from Marvel) The last 3 years saw an over haul of that and now I buy issues/trades that I think are going to entertain me and inspire me.

I like to think I'm not this guy. That's a lie.

Comic Book Geeks/Nerds are said to be obsessive about their collection and about being right all the time about certain facts. (Wolverine and Sabertooth are not brothers. Stupid movie.)

Groening noted:
“I can't tell you how many times people have come up to me and said, 'I know who you based that comic book guy on. It's that comic-book guy right down the block.' And I have to tell them, 'No, it's every comic-bookstore guy in America.'"

And as this is about stereotyping, I know a 'comic book guy' and it's one of the reasons I avoided York's branch of Traveling Man when I was old enough to go on my own.

Also cosplayers.

Took over HJ's bedroom floor