But I guess I'm just the oddity...

Comics are less nerdy in HipHop culture than in overall pop culture though, you could easily fill a recurring column over here with references to comics made in rap songs.

A tangent about hip-hop and comics:

Yes and no. Marvel comics specifically are not only less nerdy in hip-hop culture but bona fide cool. If you notice, 90% of hip-hop comic references are Marvel, and they go pretty deep into obscure characters. DC comics though are considered nerdy with the exception of the REALLY big guns. Batman is okay. Flash, Green Lantern and sometimes Superman can be mentioned in passing. But mention something like Legion of Superheroes or anything that wasn't featured prominently on Superfriends and you will be considered a dork in hip-hop circles. Growing up (I was a hip-hop kid) no one read DC unless it was a special project being done by a creator already famous at Marvel: Miller doing Batman? Cool. Byrne doing Superman? Fine. Cary Bates or Eliot S. Maggin on a DC book? Laughed out of recess.

Always go for the girl?

Like carrying a comic book is the only thing that would prevent 95% of the comic reading population from talking to a girl.

I love reading advice like that from the polybagged set....

By the by, acceptance of comics does not guarantee a good relationship...believe it or not. My first wife managed stores in NYC and Jersey, read more than I did...not enough to keep things going in that relationship.

My wife today? Couldn't be less interested in comics. She isn't ANTI comics and even enjoys the mainstream movies (Heck, she watched Star Trek long before my time).

Of course, I'm a fairly sociable geek...I claim my geekhood proudly, but I also know how to clean up, how to act socially and how to take part in social events that don't involve words like Trek, Wars, Comics and Dragons.

Ha. Though Chuck D actually is a comic book fan, right? On “Raise the Roof” off PE’s first album he talks about “Namor and the Mighty Thor” and then on their recent song “Black is Back” there was discussion of Superman and Daredevil. Not to mention the official Public Enemy comic book.

Man, you're right, that makes me want to play Yo, Bumrush The Show right f*****g now! Not the reference especially, I mean just thinking back on that album makes me want to play it. Comics are less nerdy in HipHop culture than in overall pop culture though, you could easily fill a recurring column over here with references to comics made in rap songs.

Always go for the girl.

Here endeth the lesson.

Thanks for explaining the gag to us, T.

I know the joke you were going for, but it's a fail. I didn't explain the gag.

Thanks for explaining the gag to us, T.

I never minded that - not everything has to end on a gag.

Sometimes it didn't bother me and sometimes it felt like a valid complaint.

Saw the punchline coming from a mile away, and it still made me laugh. Well done.

The best comedy is true!
We've all been there.

There was a stage where the strip seemed to always go on one panel too long, where it would have ended better if it stopped at the second to last panel.

I never minded that - not everything has to end on a gag.

Ha. Though Chuck D actually is a comic book fan, right? On "Raise the Roof" off PE's first album he talks about "Namor and the Mighty Thor" and then on their recent song "Black is Back" there was discussion of Superman and Daredevil. Not to mention the official Public Enemy comic book.

Also, people, discussing what you would have done had you been in the comic strip is a step below buying the "Face the Face" trade instead of talking to the girl.

Might have to print and frame this one though... Maybe a Christmas present for her...

Whatcha gonna do, hide your hobby until you take her home and she sees your bookcase then? Weak sauce, guy, weak sauce.