Comments on: Comic Critics #59!

By: Tom WB

Tom WB — Sun, 03 May 2009 11:48:28 +0000

Nice one, liked it plenty.

I live in Birmingham, England, and I saw both sides of Free Comic Book Day at my local stores. The first one I went to, Nostalgia & Comics, had made a proper day out of it and seemed to be doing great business; they had free comics, free sweets, helpful assistants in costume and some decent sales on trades and back issues. I got there later in the afternoon so they had run out of a few of the bigger titles of this year’s batch of free comics, but they still had plenty of comics from previous free comic book days and other back issues going.

The second, Forbidden Planet (which is the big chain of comic stores in the UK) was pretty much the opposite. No real sign that there was anything going on and the store was pretty much empty. I asked one assistant if they were taking part in free comic book day, and he said they were, but I’d have to ask the guy at the counter nicely if I wanted any of them. So they’d turned a big marketing opportunity to attract new customers into a secret code for current clientele.

By: Perry Holley

Perry Holley — Sat, 02 May 2009 14:47:44 +0000

Clearly, we need a Crisis of Infinite Gregs.

By: joshschr

joshschr — Sat, 02 May 2009 13:06:55 +0000

Excellent. Made me lol.

By: Oz Carver

Oz Carver — Sat, 02 May 2009 12:30:54 +0000

Off topic and juvenile as the observation might be, Sean Whitmore would do well to avoid having his name said by people prone to Spoonerisms.

By: Dalarsco

Dalarsco — Sat, 02 May 2009 08:06:04 +0000

Not funny. I usually love the strip, but this one just isn’t funny.

By: jazzbo

jazzbo — Sat, 02 May 2009 07:49:33 +0000

Clearly this comic says what we’ve all been thinking for a long time. All Gregs suck.

Come on, you know that’s what you were thinking.

By: Greg Burgas

Greg Burgas — Sat, 02 May 2009 03:38:34 +0000

Hatcher is DEFINITELY the dickish Greg. Come on, I’m swell! All he writes about is how much he loathes comics and their fans!

By: Carlos

Carlos — Sat, 02 May 2009 03:05:19 +0000

This sucks.

By: Brandon Hanvey

Brandon Hanvey — Sat, 02 May 2009 03:04:02 +0000

The funny thing is the blond guy with glasses is also named Greg. Though I don’t know if Sean wants to reveal which is Hatcher and which is Burgas.

We named a few of the secondary characters after the CSBG staff.

By: Nitz the Bloody

Nitz the Bloody — Sat, 02 May 2009 00:42:33 +0000

” Gregory House M.D. At least House has an admirable intellect, but the writers are at some pains to take every opportunity they can to reinforce the fact that House is a selfish d-bag. ”

To be fair, House’s worst moments tend to be with those who are close to him ( particularly Wilson and Cuddy ), and they knew what they were getting into when they became friends with him. Otherwise, House’s assholishness is calculated towards positive results; he may be an unlikable human being, but he is a force for good in the universe.

As for this Greg, he does perpetuate stereotyping against the Gregs of the world

By: Jax

Jax — Fri, 01 May 2009 23:01:56 +0000

That last panel may be the funniest thing Ive read on the internet in a while.

By: yep

yep — Fri, 01 May 2009 21:14:22 +0000

Amusing strip, but I’m totally creeped out by the drawing of the hand on the character wearing the grey & white shirts in the last panel.

By: Chris Jones

Chris Jones — Fri, 01 May 2009 20:54:26 +0000

Man, I dunno, that’s just…sort of unpleasant.

By: Greg Hatcher

Greg Hatcher — Fri, 01 May 2009 20:24:58 +0000

So, is the joke that Greg is a complete asshole?

Sadly, that is the lot of Gregs in fiction. They are at best ineffectual and nerdy — CSI’s Greg Sanders, Dharma’s Greg, Greg Brady — and at worst vicious and unpleasant, i.e., Gregg Marmalard from Animal House, or Gregory House M.D. At least House has an admirable intellect, but the writers are at some pains to take every opportunity they can to reinforce the fact that House is a selfish d-bag.

By: Brandon Hanvey

Brandon Hanvey — Fri, 01 May 2009 20:21:47 +0000

The first one is “Free Scott Pilgrim” from Oni from 2006.

The second is “Comics Festival” from 2007.

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 01 May 2009 20:13:51 +0000

So, is the joke that Greg is a complete asshole?

By: Adam

Adam — Fri, 01 May 2009 20:09:40 +0000

OK; curiosity has the better of me, and I want to know which books the customers are buying each year. This year’s is clearly Blackest Night #0, and the previous one appears to be Tiny Titans #1. What’s the first two?

By: Loren

Loren — Fri, 01 May 2009 19:59:12 +0000

“Can you even get 6 comics for 20.00 these days?”

$2.99 x 6 = $17.94.

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Fri, 01 May 2009 19:41:15 +0000

Well, it does say $20 or MORE, right?

By: Shaun

Shaun — Fri, 01 May 2009 19:39:58 +0000

I love the stack of comics the customer is buying for 20.00. Does anyone who actually goes in to a comic store spend less than 20.00 at a time? Can you even get 6 comics for 20.00 these days?