[Rant]Sometimes I really regret trying to get people to read comics

[The_Adventurer]

So i lone my cubical co-worker my copy of Starman Vol.1: Sins of the Father because I like to try and get people interested in comics. Now I've only had this book for 3 days, I've read it (awesome by the way).

And when he gives it back at the end of his shift? He's pulled the cover away from the spine glue!!!! ARG!!! Why do people press the book flat on the table when they read? is it so hard to hold it in your hand? This isn't about collectors value, this is about keeping a book intact for a good long time.


GRRRRRR this is not the first time this has happened but it still urks the Heck out of me.

[Bug]

Originally posted by The_Adventurer
So i lone my cubical co-worker my copy of Starman Vol.1: Sins of the Father because I like to try and get people interested in comics. Now I've only had this book for 3 days, I've read it (awesome by the way).
And when he gives it back at the end of his shift? He's pulled the cover away from the spine glue!!!! ARG!!! Why do people press the book flat on the table when they read? is it so hard to hold it in your hand? This isn't about collectors value, this is about keeping a book intact for a good long time.
GRRRRRR this is not the first time this has happened but it still urks the Heck out of me.

good guys finish last. no one will care for your stuff more then yourself. how cliche

[Randy A]

Originally posted by The_Adventurer
So i lone my cubical co-worker my copy of Starman Vol.1: Sins of the Father because I like to try and get people interested in comics. Now I've only had this book for 3 days, I've read it (awesome by the way).

And when he gives it back at the end of his shift? He's pulled the cover away from the spine glue!!!! ARG!!! Why do people press the book flat on the table when they read? is it so hard to hold it in your hand? This isn't about collectors value, this is about keeping a book intact for a good long time.


GRRRRRR this is not the first time this has happened but it still urks the Heck out of me.

no good deed goes unpunished.

could you just ask him for a new copy since he broke yours?

[The_Adventurer]

Originally posted by hal0
no good deed goes unpunished.

could you just ask him for a new copy since he broke yours?

Well he did give me five bucks and own up for the damage. So I forgive him. It's just the conspet of it. I mean, you can HEAR the tearing sound as the glue pulls away from the cover, why would you do it?

[cyclopsfan]

i got one better... i have a sw book on the coffee table with a bookmark in it.... my friend looks at it... opens it to the page with the bookmark.... then folds it creasing the spine right down the middle and sets it back on the table.... i was like DUDE.... what was that for...

he didn't even know what i was talkin about!

[Bug]

Originally posted by The_Adventurer
Well he did give me five bucks and own up for the damage. So I forgive him. It's just the conspet of it. I mean, you can HEAR the tearing sound as the glue pulls away from the cover, why would you do it?

more cliches....
"everyone, except you, are bad drivers"

[tralfaz]

this is why the only person i trust with my books are people that actually read and collect comics... anyone else would get the "get your hands off the book you filthy ape" hell ,i have trouble letting people borrow my DVDs

[Bug]

Originally posted by cyclopsfan
i got one better... i have a sw book on the coffee table with a bookmark in it.... my friend looks at it... opens it to the page with the bookmark.... then folds it creasing the spine right down the middle and sets it back on the table.... i was like DUDE.... what was that for...
he didn't even know what i was talkin about!

i spent a good 30 min after my friend left....where the hell is my comic? hmmm ....*looking*........*still looking*........gotta take a piss. walk to the bathroom and Waaaaaah-LA! it's in the bathrooom. he turned my beloved comic into the likes of a TV guide!!!!

[sweetchristmas]

Yeah luckily my best friend reads comics so he knows how to treat them. I've had problems with some of my other friends though, they seem to think a comic is a newspaper and is to be treated as such.

Also, has anybody in here tried to get their friends to get into comics? I let one friend borrow all my really good stories I had and he didnt even touch them over the course of like a month and a half. What a bastard. I hate it when people dont even give comics a try.

[GhettoRebel]

Originally posted by sweetchristmas
Yeah luckily my best friend reads comics so he knows how to treat them. I've had problems with some of my other friends though, they seem to think a comic is a newspaper and is to be treated as such.

Also, has anybody in here tried to get their friends to get into comics? I let one friend borrow all my really good stories I had and he didnt even touch them over the course of like a month and a half. What a bastard. I hate it when people dont even give comics a try.

Whenever comics gets mentioned (which I've given up on) at work nowadyas it is in jest.

I had a E-7 tellme that comcis were for 4 year old. So I brought in a Punisher and Supreme Power to show him.

He opened to the first page and jabbed his finger into the Punisher and said see pictures. Real books dont have pictures. Only kids need pictures cause they cant read.

I wanted to find a large blunt heavy object, tie it around is neck with some good rope and use him as a tetherball pole

[YDLM]

I let a co worker borrow Daredevil 1-8(smith and joe q), and you do you know where they are now? Do you know? No, really do you because I havent seen them since.


IF YOU SEE THEM CALL 976 OH EFF ME, IT'S A TOLL FREE CALL.

[Jack Burton]

I loaned my friend my JLA/Avengers. So I go over his place a week later I see them on the kitchen table with 2 beers bottles on their side right on top the comics. Sure enough the crossover event I waited years for became nothing more than beer filled paper towels!!

[Bug]

this is begining to sound like a support group for battered comic fans.

[thingone]

I've learned to not even bother trying to get folks to like comics. I've lent trades and various monthlies to numerous folks at work, and most return them with an insincere, "Thanks, man, that's pretty cool." But I know they'll never read a comic again.

Fortunately, everything I've handed out has come back to me in excellent condition. When you hand somebody something that's bagged and boarded, even though you're revealed for the geek you are, folks are apt to take care of it.

(oh, and in the preceding sentence, by "you," I naturally mean "I.")

[Bug]

the best way i've found people to start reading comics is to show them specific titles. like Ultimate spider-man #1 or AXM #1 and say "see look...it was only $2.99....but today it's worth over $100! and most people go "WHAT!?" and i'd say "Yeah man, you should start collecting!"

[TheFoo]

Originally posted by Bug
the best way i've found people to start reading comics is to show them specific titles. like Ultimate spider-man #1 or AXM #1 and say "see look...it was only $2.99....but today it's worth over $100! and most people go "WHAT!?" and i'd say "Yeah man, you should start collecting!"

A bit manipulative, but I find thats what keeps my Dad from throwing away all my comics. Not quite coin collecting, which is his perogative, but close enough.

[GhettoRebel]

Originally posted by TheFoo
A bit manipulative, but I find thats what keeps my Dad from throwing away all my comics. Not quite coin collecting, which is his perogative, but close enough.

My dad collects Snap On Tools.........

[tralfaz]

Originally posted by GhettoRebel
Whenever comics gets mentioned (which I've given up on) at work nowadyas it is in jest.

I had a E-7 tellme that comcis were for 4 year old. So I brought in a Punisher and Supreme Power to show him.

He opened to the first page and jabbed his finger into the Punisher and said see pictures. Real books dont have pictures. Only kids need pictures cause they cant read.

I wanted to find a large blunt heavy object, tie it around is neck with some good rope and use him as a tetherball pole

ARRRRRRRRRRRGH!!!

people like that are the most ignorant pieces of turd.
By his logic, you should tell him to stop reading magazines and watching movies. In fact, tell him that Shakespeare used a form of comic strip to better portray his plays in the Globe theatre...

This guy is one ignorant ass that probably doesnt have any cognative or imaginative capabilities.

TRALFAZ ANGRY!!!!

[tenebre]

Originally posted by The_Adventurer
Why do people press the book flat on the table when they read? is it so hard to hold it in your hand? This isn't about collectors value, this is about keeping a book intact for a good long time.

I totally agree!! i even hold hardbound movels and magazines in my hand. I never crush them flat.

No idea why people do that. I prefer to read them in my hands personally.

[JimHughs4]

I collect spores, mold, and fungus.


But I never bitch about getting my books back in bad shape. Y'know, I lent these to someone, I know the possible consequences, so screw it. If the books comes back looking like crap, at least it was probably read and enjoyed. If it was that important, I wouldn't have lent it out in the first place. But you know, a broken spine, a torn cover, these are signs of love in my house. You should see my copy of Watchmen... or no, maybe you shouldn't. You'd cry.

But the one thing I hate is dog-earing a page to mark your place. HATE IT. It's just disrespectful to the book because it's so easy to do something else. So when I got married, we gave away bookmarks as favors. I've still got about four hundred of the damn things, so I tuck one into any book I'm loaning out. It reminds them where the book comes back to, also!

[Blind Assassin]

My friend loves vampires. i figured a good way to get her into comics was to lend her my Essential Tomb of Dracula Vol 1.

She was enjoying it, and talked to me about the first few issues in the collection. Then she stopped talking about it suddenly.

I kept asking her 'are you done yet? Volume 2 is coming out, and I want to flip through volume 1 before I buy the second one. Sort of give myself a 'refresher'."

She looked like a deer in the headlights. Finally she says "I didn't want to tell you. I was reading the book in the BATHTUB, and I dropped it. It got soaked. I was gonna buy you a new one to replace it without saying anything, but I coudln't find one anywhere."

IN THE BATHTUB

[GhettoRebel]

Originally posted by tralfaz
ARRRRRRRRRRRGH!!!

people like that are the most ignorant pieces of turd.
By his logic, you should tell him to stop reading magazines and watching movies. In fact, tell him that Shakespeare used a form of comic strip to better portray his plays in the Globe theatre...

This guy is one ignorant ass that probably doesnt have any cognative or imaginative capabilities.

TRALFAZ ANGRY!!!!

My thought exactley.........I was thinking of typing the book up for him to read and see what he thought of it then......bet he wont think it's for 4 year olds......

[GhettoRebel]

Originally posted by Blind Assassin
My friend loves vampires. i figured a good way to get her into comics was to lend her my Essential Tomb of Dracula Vol 1.

She was enjoying it, and talked to me about the first few issues in the collection. Then she stopped talking about it suddenly.

I kept asking her 'are you done yet? Volume 2 is coming out, and I want to flip through volume 1 before I buy the second one. Sort of give myself a 'refresher'."

She looked like a deer in the headlights. Finally she says "I didn't want to tell you. I was reading the book in the BATHTUB, and I dropped it. It got soaked. I was gonna buy you a new one to replace it without saying anything, but I coudln't find one anywhere."

IN THE BATHTUB

Who reads in the tub????? That like drying your hair with a hair dryer while still in the shower...incredibly stupid.

[Blind Assassin]

Originally posted by GhettoRebel
Who reads in the tub????? That like drying your hair with a hair dryer while still in the shower...incredibly stupid.

The best part, was when she told me she was going to pick me up another one, but she 'couldn't find a copy, no matter what bookstore I went to' (She has never been to the comic shop with me, so she didn't know where it was. )

The good thing, though, is that I took her with me when I went, she picked me up Essential Vol 1 AND 2 (she felt guilty).

Two days later she called me up, and me, her, and her daughter went to the store.

she bought (for her 11 year old daughter) The Jill Thompson 'Death' tpb/digest thing as well as the Spider-Girl digest and 2 Meridian TPB's.

So, I guess it all led to something good after all.

[JimHughs4]

Originally posted by GhettoRebel
Who reads in the tub????? That like drying your hair with a hair dryer while still in the shower...incredibly stupid.

Hmmm... I plead the Fifth.

Hot tub, wine, and a good book... ahh...