What courage.
What nobility.
To bravely stand up in a 100% socialist anti-Trump crowd of morons and have the guts to say they hate Trump.
The late Harlan Ellison said anyone still obsessively fascinated by comics after they pass age 9 is an idiot.
We have a generation or two of idiots now.
>>The late Harlan Ellison said anyone still obsessively fascinated by comics after they pass age 9 is an idiot.
I guess that would depend on the definition of “obsessively fascinated”, because I know a lot of people who are obsessively fascinated with sports on TV and they shout at it like the TV can hear and tell the coach what he is doing wrong.
One of the funniest things I ever heard was that sports on TV is like Dungeons and Dragons for people with no imagination.
My Mom would not buy me comic books when I was young. My older brother had tons of them in boxes but I never really read them or became interested. Instead Mom would buy me books and I really got into WWII at a very young age because of my Dad and Uncle flying and fighting in that war, so she enrolled me in the Military Book Club. That was when I started to learn about, and love, history.
Only because back then comics wouldn't show a protagonist killing a woman and feeding her to a dog.
Today they probably would.
A funny thing to say, given that one of his last creative acts was playing himself in multiple episodes of "Scooby Doo: Mystery Inc.".
I went to a few cons back in the 70s and 80s as a much younger adult. I enjoyed some of it but also got a bit of a creepy vibe at these nerdvanas and stopped going eventually. Since the ascent of President Trump the remnants of the old entertainment world have been swept away for me.
Ellison was probably my least favorite SF author (Heinlein rules!). I read comics from first grade until I left home for college. Of course, I also read a whole lot of other stuff (Ivanhoe in third grade). Graduated with a PhD in chem, so the comix couldn't have affected me too badly.
Unfortunately, after I left for college, my mom gave away my collection to some of my cousins. It included the first Fantastic Four, first Iron Man, first Spiderman, and probably others. I could cry just thinking about what those would be worth today.
The late Harlan Ellison said anyone still obsessively fascinated by comics after they pass age 9 is an idiot.
We have a generation or two of idiots now.
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they are reaching critical mass ....