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I love it! My favorite one yet!

*snicker* oh so much awesome.

HA!

Love it.

These are getting pretty good.

Two good ones in a row! I’m impressed. We officially have a streak.

I must say though, this one is a little far-fetched and required a lot of suspension of disbelief, even for a comic strip. I mean, come on, a kid in a comic store? And not in the manga section?

LOL!

My sentiments exactly.

Okay, that was chuckleworthy!

So it looks like they just needed a little practice, then they started getting noticably better.

Huh, imagine that.

Cause remember, if you’re a grown up that reads super-heroes, you’re a loser!

Still intrigued by a strip that insults its main audience…

if you’re a grown up who argues over stuff like that, you ARE a loser. guys like that are the reason i don’t tell girls one of my main hobbies in life, they stereotype the rest of us comic fans

Too darn funny

Cause remember, if you’re a grown up that reads super-heroes, you’re a loser!

Still intrigued by a strip that insults its main audience…

No, you’re missing the point.

If your a grown up that reads super-heroes AND gets offended by stuff like this, then you’re a loser.

Also you’re fat. And stupid. And will never have sex.

I hope this clears things up for you.

my favourite one so far

Also you’re fat. And stupid. And will never have sex.

Unless you meet Mr. Skinner’s mom.

and what avengers63 said.

“Still intrigued by a strip that insults its main audience…”–Still intrigued by your failure to understand humor in any way, shape, or form. Either that, or you are SUCH a stereotypical comic book fan, like that guy from the Simpsons level of stereotypical, that you’re hypersensitive to jokes like this. And you should be, because if that’s who you are, then you are a hopeless loser and you should go play some D&D and maybe go to a Ren Fest.

The strip HAS gotten better. But that’s not why you guys are being nice to it now. You’re being nice because now it’s trendy to be nice. Before it was trendy to be a dick. You’re endlessly predictable.

“if you’re a grown up who argues over stuff like that, you ARE a loser. guys like that are the reason i don’t tell girls one of my main hobbies in life, they stereotype the rest of us comic fans”–Ayep. I am so tired of having to lie about this.

[quote]The strip HAS gotten better. But that’s not why you guys are being nice to it now. You’re being nice because now it’s trendy to be nice. Before it was trendy to be a dick. You’re endlessly predictable.[/quote]

Uh… no.

Speaking for myself, I don’t recall hateing (sp?) on it in the beginning. I recall giving criticism. but nothing that was unwarranted. I saw that this had a LOT of potential and needed to be explored before it could reach it.

If anyone has read a collection of newspaper strips, you’d see similarities. The strip is almost never funny right off the bat. It needs to be done for a while. Through that, the creators find what works and what doesn’t. We’re seeing that here. The difference is that they’re being posted on a forum which allows for direct reader feedback.

The drawback of this is that it’s on the internet. For some reason, there is a brashness and abrasiveness that some people develop when they’re in the relative annonymity of a message board. Some folks just become a dick because they’re not face-to-face with someone and they can get away with it.. This attitude exaggerates every single response they make. No, I don’t think it was trendy to be rude in the comments. I think it’s just the nature of the internet rearing it’s head once again.

….and speak of missing the point.

Didn’t say I didn’t agree with the strip. I’m just find it interesting that creating a strip that’s posted on a site where the main audience is targeted in the strip is amusing.

It’d be like a strip mocking Trekkers were made a regular feature on a Trek site.

I think the strip makes fun of people who argue about childish issues, like what makes a person a better Spider-Man fan. CSBG is supposed to be for people who want comics to be good.

And avengers63, I don’t think Jono11 was talking about people who did either enjoy the strip as is or make constructive criticism, but the people who’s only comment was that it sucked or shouldn’t be on CSBG.

But I don’t want to come off as one of those commenters that tries to explain what other people said. They’re worse than people who get offended at comments that weren’t directed at them.

All said in fun, of course.

Sean and Brandon, bravo!

Great, as usual!

A strip mocking Trekkies was a major feature on startrek.com…or did you know that, and you’re baiting me?

guys like that are the reason i don’t tell girls one of my main hobbies in life, they stereotype the rest of us comic fans

I normally throw it out their in a self depreciating fashion, ie. you realise I’m a giant nerd because… it works if you haven’t given the vibe off at all.
I feel the need to do it early, because if they come in my room, they’ll see the comics everywhere.

I’m not ashamed of comics, I’m not really ashamed of anything I like, I’m just still scarred by the time a girl broke up with me about an hour after she’d first seen me by comics.
Now the two are unrelated, but the association is now there in my mind.
That said, that evening, JLI was there for me, wimmin were not.

Really, the joke is not making fun of older folks who read comics. It’s making fun of those who take it so seriously they drain all the fun out of it. That kid is gonna have fun with that Venom figure.

This is how I feel every time I forget that I hate visiting comic book message boards… or any message board really.

@ Joe11

So we didn’t like the comic before, but now it has got better so we do like it. I can see how the most obvious answer must be some deep psychological issue we all have to be endlessly trendy. Because when someone’s on a comics blog their most important concern is being trendy. Now I’m not always against reading motive into people’s actions, sometimes you can and you may even be correct about some of the commenters, but Occam’s Razor says that you should take the most obvious answer. And if we are so predictable, did you actually predict what we would do? Props if you did but it’s pretty damn easy to predict something which has already happened.

Oh my Mephisto. This was good and contained an intrigung philosophical question. Well done to both of you.

“Didn’t say I didn’t agree with the strip”

No, but you made a sarcastic remark which seemed to criticize the strip for a perceived transgression.

So, you gave off the impression that you were insulted by it.