Plus like hundreds of others..oh and I love When Harry Met Sally...so hysterical.

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Ha well I doubt anyone will ever read this...since the topic was posted more than a year ago. And...I actually originally came onto this forum for ideas for my halloween costume. Ha, I wanted to be either Catwoman or Poison Ivy...but then I got interested in these topics so...enjoy your comic books guys ;D

Bragging about it on the internet? That's extremely geeky.

(Okay--it's grant Morrison.)

I don't, really--I fail to see what the big deal about him is.

There--that's my answer to the original question asked above.

I haven't read much sci-fi (although I really liked Dune and the 2 sequels I read), and never seen Dr. Who, B5, or Galactica. I have a nostalgic fondness for Star Trek & Wars, but, sadly, they don't hold up.

I'm embarassed to admit it, but I like most of Kevin Smith's movies. Yeah, yeah, I know...

There seems to be a correlation between comic fans & music fans. I love me some blues (from Robert Johnson to Buddy Guy and back), punk (Clash, Operation Ivy, a slew of Boston bands '91- '00 or so), indie/ alt rock (PJ Harvey, Pixies, & Radiohead among my favorites), soul (Aretha to Jamie Lidell), Hendrix (Hey Baby [Land of the New Rising Sun] is my favorite) & other classic rock (Dylan, Neil Young, VU, Traffic, Beatles & Stones), and beyond.

I'm a teacher. I teach students with autism, and try to stay on top of new developments in the field.

Like other comics fans, I love to just know stuff. Random trivia, history, science, whatever.

I like sports, especially football.

Oddly enough, I've managed to be a closeted comic book reader for years. Some friends and most acquaintances don't know about it. It's the hobby that dare not speak its name! Although Fun Home and Jimmy Corrigan and Joe Sacco and art spiegleman and countless others bring respectability to the medium, it seems most people think of people who read comics as the stereotypical "comic book guy." You can make all the comic book movies you want, and millions of people of all ages see and enjoy them, but the stereotype doesn't seem to change...

(Of course, your experiences might be totally different. Maybe the stereotype is breaking down, and I just haven't noticed. If so, great!)

I've never been able to sit through a whole episode of the Buffy series.

Didn't see Star Wars until I was 21 and wondered what all the fuss was about. Also saw the prequels and didn't get where all the hate was coming from, as they had all the earmarks of the original trilogy, only with better FX.

I'd much rather read Bruce Campbell's writing than watch his acting.

I think Joss Whedon is a competant storyteller, but vastly overhyped.

I've never been able to get into any of the classic masters of sci-fi, or hard sci-fi in general. Most of it just seems as dry as sawdust or a little skeevy.

Never cared for Lost.

Ditto Firefly. And no, I don't think seeing them out of order made a damn bit of difference, as I didn't start watching Babylon 5 until mid third season, and I enjoyed it a lot.

Ditto Heroes.

Couldn't get into the Narnia books past the first one, even as a kid.

As for non-nerdy activities, I don't actually have too many of those. I really like the life-sciences and anthropology, I study animal behavior and Roman history in my free time, and I think that's about it.

I've never seen Blade Runner, Tron, Rocky or Rambo.

I don't play video games. Okay, occasionally Tetris or something similar. But I don't own a video game system and I don't intend to buy one. I sorta played D&D a few times with friends in junior high, but it was a short-lived phase.

I don't watch TV.

I actually haven't a clue what "cosplay" is, and I haven't bothered to go on Wikipedia to look it up.

I run 5 miles a day, I do yoga, and I eat quite healthily.

I do make lists obsessively. For two years I kept track of every single album I listened to, and painstakingly tabulated the statistics of the bands and albums I listened to most. (By the end, the top 3 were REM, Talking Heads and Ani DiFranco).

I did love the Hardy Boys AND Three Investigators as a kid.

I do spend a lot of time on the internet.

I am a big fan of Lord of the Rings, and more recently His Dark Materials. But most of my non-comics reading material usually consists of A) highly literate novels that have some elements of fantasy, but not a whole lot, a la Salman Rushdie, B) mystic poetry, or C) Spiritual non-fiction.

I can talk for hours and hours about Transformers, the Thundercats, Silverhawks, M.A.S.K., He-Man, G.I.Joe... anyone remember Visionaries? I sure do.

I have always latched onto trivia as a means of occupying my left brain. When I was young it was baseball statistics, and then later it was musical trivia about the bands I loved, and then stuff like comic book first appearances and such. These days I apply it to astrology and other complex mystical systems like Tarot, the Mayan calendar... the same higher archetype stuff that my favorite comics draw inspiration from.

I'm happily married, to a dancer/choreographer. I haven't been single or celibate in a long time, although I must confess that 10 years ago when I was reading a lot MORE comics than I am now (like 50 every week, and spending 40 horus a week on an online newsletter) I was single, and not gettin' so much.

(I've managed to get my wife into Y: The Last Man, American Virgin and the occasional Alan Moore story, as well as some comic book movies, but that's as far as that goes).

I love comics dearly and I'm never shy about telling people.

I have a wide range of musical tastes and I'm passionate about the music I love. I have my Top 23 Bands and almost every band in that list has 10 or more albums each. I have 40,000 songs on my computer and I'm always making playlists. It's mainly rock and roll with a lot of folk and world music, and then samplings of everything else thrown in.

Just like almost everyone else who reads comics (and I'd argue this is the most "typical" trait of all)... I'd like to make comics, too.

Jack Norris- Ouch that hurts, but good call on the Flash Gordon Theme, that opening bass line is gold for getting the party started in my house.

I played D&D exactly once, because a girl I was dating was into it. I didn't hate it (I may even work the character I created into a novel one day) but I have yet to feel compelled to ever do it again. Too much time when there are too many other things to do.

I have never read Manga, and have watched very little anime (Trigun, Now and Then, Here and There, and alittle DBZ being the exceptions).

Typical geeky things I am into: I love Buffy, Angel, Firefly, I'm getting into Stargate...everything Star Wars to the core of my being (even the prequels and the expanded universe-I love Star Wars novels) even more than the X-Men (yes, the X-Men). I love Star Trek (DS9 is my favorite) though my geek kung-fu there isn't as strong as it is in other areas. Harry Potter. I've watched the Simpsons since day one and fear the day when no new episodes will appear (I can't remember a time like that...). I adore Futurama, and don't understand the Family Guy hate. My friends and I all enjoy it. Venture Brothers. South Park is a riot. I am a child-of-the-80s nostalgia whore so I love Transformers, GI Joe, He-Man etc. and own all the DVDs. I have a pack rat tendency towards collecting that my wife is gently and loving working to break me from, while understanding that the urge to collect some things (comics, DVDs, action figures, books) will never vanish.

Non-typical stuff: I am a movie buff and own several hundred non-TV show DVDs. I love history (especially American History, especially 19th century Frontier/Civil War/Old West/Industrial Revolution stuff) and baseball, and am overcoming my "I was a geek in high school so I hate jocks" mentality to gain a greater appreciation for American Football.

I also memorize things and am a huge trivia buff. In college, to keep myself awake in class, I memorized all the Presidents, the Best Picture Oscar winners from 1948 to present (I ran out of time...) and the winners of the World Series from about 1960 to present (ditto). I had ambitions to do the same to rulers of England, so I am very jealous of Greg's knowledge there.

My wife and I love to cook and watch a lot of Food Network. I'm a TV geek, in that sometimes, I just love to sit for an hour or so and surf, watching random shows or snippets of old movies. I love theater, specifically musicals. My favorite musicians are Aerosmith, Bon Jovi, Billy Joel, Frank Sinatra and Matchbox 20, in that order. I like to make an effort to dress well and look good.

I have an English degree, so I have the requisite interests there, specifically in modern American Lit (Twain, Hemingway, Fitzgerald). As a kid I was obsessed with dinosaurs and Greek and Norse mythology (which I credit for my love of super hero comics). The book I have read cover to cover more than any other is Edith Hamilton's Mythology. Oh, and I love the Laura Ingalls Wilder books, and the Three Investigators (a lesser known Hardy Boys knock off that is far superior).

Non Geeky stuff-College football (I'm a Boise State fan), never played D and D (of course I grew up in a rural area so I didn't have enough friends to play), punk rock; played mostly at house shows, the television show
COPS, MMA and Boxing, going boating at the lake.

Jack Norris-you liked nothing about the Highlander, not even that awesome Queen theme song.

But I only hang out with gay men and girls nowadays. Many of my gay friends like some geek stuff. They grew up reading superhero comics, they like RPGs and videogames, they like TV shows like Heroes, one of them even likes Stargate (I never watched it myself).

But all of them keep in shape, all of them dress well, all of them have good personal hygiene, all of them have social lives. I mean, being gay trumps being a geek in these respects. I just can't leave the house if I'm not looking good and shopping for new clothes is one of life's greatest pleasures.