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Friday, February 23, 2007

Books Digital Comics. (feat. Poindexter on Violin)

Posted by Erik Henriksen on Fri, Feb 23 at 11:35 AM

As evidenced by this week’s I’m Staying Home, one of the things I keep trying to figure out is why people will go to comic book movies, but flat-out refuse to read actual comic books. I’m a hopeless geek, and thus have no problem venturing into comic book shops, etc., but I can’t quite figure out why no one else I know feels the same way. I’ll have no problem rounding up friends go to see the latest X-Men movie or whatever, and everyone I know loves Batman Begins (even Chas Bowie!)—but mention reading these stories in their original format and everybody acts like you just busted out with an a cappella version of this.

Anyway, I don’t know if this will change things, but maybe: Marvel Comics is putting themselves out there as the first major comic publisher to be looking at online distribution of their comics. It kind of reminds me of the whole “Paper’s going to be obsolete! All books will be online!” scare that proved to be utterly untrue in the mid-’90s, but still. Interesting.

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You'd be surprised... more and more "non-comics readers" come into our shop every week, looking for comics! Sin City was a huge seller and drove a crapload of people to check out the graphic novels, as did V for Vendetta. I have a feeling Frank MIller's 300 will further expose people to the fact that "comics aren't just kids"!

Posted by Bridge City Comics | February 23, 2007 12:46 PM

And if you liked Sword of Stones, check out Amazing Screw-On Head!

Posted by Bridge City Comics | February 23, 2007 12:56 PM

*shrug* I've been reading comix for at least 40 years and you know what? I really don't care if that makes me dweeby or whether the mainstream, whoever they are, read them. I don't double bag, I don't collect; I read them until they fall apart, I love them to death. I have honed my must-reads down to a very few--anything involving Joss Whedon or P. Craig Russell, and Paul Pope's "THB." Luckily their combined output is slim. I pick up a few other things here and there, but rarely; I just don't have the income for that any more.

One of my favoritest moments of my journalism career remains the morning in 1992-ish when our AM drive DJ scheduled an interview with someone, and then went on vacation and didn't tell anyone about the guest; the receptionist called upstairs and said, what should she tell this guy Frank Miller--would I interview him? I would.

Mr. Miller didn't expect a comics geek on the other side of the microphone, but he got one, and we talked our heads off. One of the most fun interviews of my life, I wish I could find the tape. It's probably not as good as the memory, though, so it's just as well.

Posted by Lynn S. | February 23, 2007 1:54 PM

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