Comments on: Lorendiac’s Lists: 10 Types of Comic Book Forum Weirdos

By: hypnoticgenius

hypnoticgenius — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 13:21:11 +0000

Hi all,

New to the forum, just thought I’d introduce myself

By: Hychocrippito

Hychocrippito — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 23:39:58 +0000

hi,

i was wondering where can i watch or download full metal alchemist the 2nd episode 11 been searching for it…
no of the links are working….

By: DanCJ

DanCJ — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 11:58:43 +0000

That Anonymous was me.

Oh calling quotes “inverted commas” seems to be dying out with my parents’ generation. Anyone I know either calls them quotes or speech marks.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 11:57:19 +0000

Carl, in American English we usually put punctuation like periods or commas inside the quotation marks.

You’re supposed to do that in British English (aka English) as well, but I refuse to. It’s a silly rule that makes no sense.

By: Omar Karindu, with the power of SUPER-hypocrisy!

Omar Karindu, with the power of SUPER-hypocrisy! — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 21:21:58 +0000

Carl, in American English we usually put punctuation like periods or commas inside the quotation marks. Did you know that in Britain quotation marks are called "inverted commas?" The history of the quotation mark is really very interesting, much more interesting than comic books or whatever this list was about.

By: Carl

Carl — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 15:18:30 +0000

I’d add in “The English Teacher”. This is the person who feels obligated to correct every misspelling and grammatical error from someone else’s post. This does not include who point it out when such mistakes are unintentionally humorous due to a changed meaning. The English Teacher not adding anything to the discussion. He/She will often highlight their “corrections” in bold.

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 12:12:29 +0000

Edo, your sarcasm detector needs some work.

By: Edo Bosnar

Edo Bosnar — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 10:20:42 +0000

Hmmm, I was waiting around for someone else to mention this, but with regard to no. 5, “The Cultist”, the repeated references to a certain (admittedly good, but perhaps slightly over-rated) writer as “The God of All Comics” by one comics blogger I know of almost immediately came to mind…

By: Jack Norris

Jack Norris — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 02:06:30 +0000

There’s a relative of the 10 Percenter, who, while he might read the article, will hit the reply button without reading any comments, not caring to check if his points have already been pointed out, discussed and maybe even all sorted out by then.
I remember one guy, told that the “major error” he’d pointed out had already been mentioned, acknowledged and generally hashed out, and that maybe if he’d been paying attention he’d know this, reacted with something like “Hey, I don’t have to read everybody else’s damn comments man, I only ever just jump to the end and hit reply, it’s unreasonable to expect me to do any different.”

By: DanCJ

DanCJ — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 08:25:59 +0000

Hmmm… I’m probably a bit guilty of 2 and 9.

We’ve had a definite 2 (broken record) over on the Vertigo board of the CBR forums lately.

By: jazzbo

jazzbo — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 05:12:17 +0000

Well, I’ve definitely been #s 2, 3 and 7 at times. Maybe at all times, who knows. Internet Tough Guy is definitely an internet-wide phenomena. He is one of my least favorite types, though, so I would vote for including him as well.

By: Mike Blake

Mike Blake — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 04:21:02 +0000

Alan Coil opined:
“The Listmaker–the vilest, slimiest, scum on the internet,
and I’ve got a list of them I’ll share with the world some day.”

He’s got ‘em on the list
He’s got ‘em on the list;
And they’ll none of ‘em be missed
They’ll none of ‘em be missed!

By: Rene

Rene — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 03:06:55 +0000

Okay, here are some other types I’ve found a lot on forums (and since I’m liberal and gay and even feminist, I’m supposed to be able to poke fun at my own side, correct?):

- Oh, the Misogyny! – Another kind of Broken Record, this is a person that can’t ever turn off their gender studies mode when discussing comics. She (or he, because there are plenty of males that are self-appointed champions of feminism) sees misogyny in everything. She is also a Amateus Psychoanalyst. Every time a female character stubs a toe, it’s because the writer and the readers are neurotic women-haters, not just because beloved characters suffering adds drama.

- The Hater – He seems to hate every comic book, character, writer, or artist. Some Haters are blunt, some are sarcastic, but all of them brim with contempt for everything and everyone. The Hater usually has one or two comics that he actually likes, but they’re often obscure or decades-old, and he rarely ever mentions them. He much prefers to rant about all the stuff that he hates. And he hates plenty.

- The Sex-Obsessed Fan – There are two varieties of this kind of Broken Record. The first is the hormonally-driven individual that is obsessed with the idea of superhero characters doing the nasty, and is always ready with an off-color joke or comment. The other is his opposite number, often a Kiddie Champion and/or Bitter Purist that thinks the world is ending because some mainstream superhero comic included a risque scene.

By: Alan Coil

Alan Coil — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 02:55:59 +0000

The Listmaker–the vilest, slimiest, scum on the internet, and I’ve got a list of them I’ll share with the world some day.

By: Sijo

Sijo — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 02:46:20 +0000

Another very interesting article by Lorendiac. Particularly the self-effacing ending. Congratulations.

Does any of those types apply to me? Hmm… I’m worried that I’m starting to sound like the Broken Record with all my comments about how the current DC Comics Staff sucks. But damn, they keep reminding me of it all the time! And I’d better stop there or I’ll reinforce the notion.

I also fear I may turn into the Vague Recollector, as my memory is not what it used to be…

And I agree, The Troll should also be in the list.

By: Mike Blake

Mike Blake — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 01:10:26 +0000

Rene, your “Contrarian” is, I think, synonymous with a type identified on the net for many years: the Troll. Also known as “the Energy Creature” is some corners, where folks are warned not to encourage it with outraged replies, since that’s what it seeks, with cries of DFTEC: “Don’t feed the energy creature.”

Funny that I read this and saw type number four right after reading about “VIBE: Rebirth” on numerous blogs…

By: McK

McK — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 00:25:21 +0000

The political ones could use mini-categories, such as “Over-reactive Gays in Comics Supporter” (“Chuck Dixon once said gay characters shouldn’t be pushed into comics, and I bet he lynches people!”) and the “Over-reactive Gays Out of Comics Believer” (“Superman and Batman have a title together? Well DC just can’t help turning historically straight characters gay!”) and the “Current racial standards to Golden Age Applier” (“I think it’s terrible that Simon and Kirby had Captain America beat up Nazis and caricatured Japanese soldiers! The Axis had rights and were entitled to their own opinions!”)

Of course this was all in good fun because there are far too many to list. The Crybaby one could split to the “Takes Everything Personally Junkie”, which reminds me of those poor unfortunate souls who bitterly complained about the “greedy” Siegel family during the recent legal action because they wanted to take away MY Superman comics, dammit!

By: Rene

Rene — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 23:56:34 +0000

That was brilliant, Omar!

By: Rene

Rene — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 23:53:08 +0000

Sam, I’ve met PLENTY of Alan Moore cultists. I’m sorta one of them, myself.

Anyway, here are a few obvious additonal types of forum weirdoes:

- The Company Man: He isn’t just a guy that prefers the comics of a certain company. He is more dedicated than Osama Bin Laden. He has a passionate hatred for the other company. He thinks people who read comics of the other company are morons at best, spawn of Satan at worst. He is also a Broken Record.

- The Contrarian: He takes a lot of pleasure in having the most unusual oppinions. Dark Knight is a shitty movie. Alan Moore is a crappy writer. Watchmen is garbage. Rob Liefeld is a great artist. The Spirit is a great movie, much better than the comics. He is adamant in his certainty that he is right, while the rest of the world is wrong.

- Kid Champion – He is a Broken Record obsessed by “Superheroes Should Be For Kids, Damnit!” He almost always is a Bitter Purist (as described above by Coffee) with a rose-colored view of past comics. Ironically, he also almost always is a middle-aged or even old man. Many of them are Amateur Psychoanalysts that are certain that anyone who likes (or even tolerates) adult elements in superhero fiction is a degenerate sexual pervert with arrested development.

- Left-Winger/Right-Winger – Another kind of Broken Record. Everything is political to him. Every discussion is a excuse for him to say how George W. Bush is the most evil entity that ever existed, or alternately, how the clueless, degenerate, insidious liberal writers are destroying the comic book industry by pushing their values on us.

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 23:28:57 +0000

This list was way more thought out than DCs stupid decision to bring Jason Todd back from the dead…