Comments on: Comics in Public: A Social Experiment

By: Double Header | Otaku Ink

Double Header | Otaku Ink — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:55:53 +0000

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By: Alpha-Girl

Alpha-Girl — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 01:05:53 +0000

Dive bars might work out better than an awkward airport hotel lounge full of off duty business types who tuck their t-shirts into their belted khaki shorts.

By: Rae

Rae — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 23:21:47 +0000

I work at a comics publisher across the street from a terrific dive bar. It works out pretty well. =)

By: Cassandra

Cassandra — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:42:35 +0000

This was a real delight to read and to be honest the ide sounds wonderful! But I love reading comics anywhere.
This probably shows how much of a geek I am but I wouldn’t walk up and interrupt someone reading a book but if they were reading a comic I totally would, I love meeting new comic fans.

By: ZombieShakespeare

ZombieShakespeare — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 03:33:09 +0000

Awesome. I’m not a big fan of Planetary, so I hope you had enough booze to help you through it.

By: Robin

Robin — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 20:23:34 +0000

Brava, Lisa.

Being a fellow geek girl (and someone who works in a library if not a full-fledged librarian yet), I probably would’ve asked you the usual book-in-a-bar questions. In that spirit, what is Planetary about? (I’m just going to assume it’s good based on how much you enjoyed it.)

It’s pretty amusing that so many people still look at you funny if the book you’re reading happens to have pretty pictures to go along with the witty dialog and clever plotlines, yet they wouldn’t give it a second thought if you were reading a fashion magazine full of photographs. Actually, I’d probably dismiss a woman with Vogue or something of its ilk the same way you were dismissed by the she’s-not-a-threat crowd. Which is probably just as superficial of me, but there it is.

By: oxygengrrl

oxygengrrl — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 21:55:08 +0000

Yikes: Evidently, my internal editor has gone off to take a nap. I meant to type “Once, while waiting for the walk sign to cross the street, a guy started up a conversation with me…” And the it’s in the next sentence needs an apostrophe.

By: oxygengrrl

oxygengrrl — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 21:52:45 +0000

Hee. Thanks for posting that. I, too, read comic books and graphic novels in public a lot. I don’t find that people avoid me when I do it, though. Quite the opposite–more people talk to me when I have the graphic novels. I once had a guy at waiting for the walk sign to cross the street start up a conversation with my because I had a Y the Last Man peeking out of my purse. I think its because in my normal demeanor, I deter most folks: I don’t go out of my way to seem approachable, I don’t smile unless something is funny, etc. But the graphic novels may just bring out such a spirit of geek solidarity, that fellow geeks figure I can’t be THAT mean, if I’m reading graphic novels. And to them, I’m probably not.

By: TrinityVixen

TrinityVixen — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:09:07 +0000

I love reading comics in public! I was reading The Dark Knight Returns (for about the fifteen billionth time) on the subway and an older guy tapped me on the shoulder to tell me I was in for a real treat. I told him that I’d read it before, to which he responded that I have great taste. Yay for non-sketchy interactions!

I kind of love the way some people ignore me and deem me unworthy for reading comics. It makes it that much easier to spot the not-so-few who look over and are keenly interested because they, too, want to be reading comics. Geeks of the world, unite!

By: bob

bob — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 14:50:31 +0000

Lisa you amaze me! You took a backpack when you left home and got on a bus with an open ended ticket! You are a tough woman! There are allot of “man” that would leave there comfort zone. You are my HERO! I’ve been all over the world but I never did as much as you!