2018 is finally starting to look up. It’s been a pretty rough year.

I cannot believe in the year of our lord 2018 Shatterstar is going to be in a #1 movie.

It’s not anyone’s duty to prop up an industry whose sales force is heavily infested with assfaces.

Comic book stores are very specifically places where controversial things are found. Where freedom of speech is tested.

How is a “professional nerd” unfamiliar with spaces that require induction and familiarity.

Buying comic books is vastly different than going into a bookstore and buying a book. For one thing, you can’t simply pick up a single issue and read an entire story — you need someplace to start and that can be difficult to figure out, especially when you have books with large numbers. Plus, comics are not well known…

Do you not get how it can be a gatekeeper scenario? I have been to loads of shops. Some are that way, some aren’t. But for someone who goes and tries to dive in for the first time without knowing everything, walking into a place with an elitist mentality who are not helpful can sour the experience. Comic stores are…

For me, this is exactly it, too. So many specialty-type shops, especially those associated with “nerdery”—comic books, video games, board games, and so on—have that type of gatekeeping feel, that “why are you here” attitude with the implication that you need to prove you deserve to be in the store. Ask a question, and…

It all feels so intentionally opaque or arcane, like this is a secret club that you can only be inducted to by an existing member. And it feels like for many shops, that’s a feature, not a bug. I could be wrong, but I’ve always seen it as part and parcel with the constant gatekeeping that make many of these spaces so…

This is just buying into the myth of comic book stores.

Something I have learned about comic shops as I got older is, like game stores selling board games rpgs and warhammer, is that the owners frequently are collectors/gamers and run these stores like their personal collection and not like an actual business that cares about getting customers and selling their wares. And…

Precisely this.

This is my exact experience, and it’s why i didn’t get until comics until I was an adult and could order trades from Amazon. I LOVE comics now, they’re a huge part of my life, but I still only read in trade or digitally.

I don’t agree with him wholesale, but there was an awful lot of back-patting going on with Wonder Woman.

Some people just have really round butts. I am one of these people. See also:

He’s smoking hot and has junk in the trunk so he’s right in my wheelhouse. 

“Inspored” sounds like a description of how cheesy sci-fi aliens reproduce.

The word “inspo” being used in actual out loud conversations is painful to my soul. I just don’t get it. It’s not inspOration.

I have no idea who that is but suddenly am VERY interested in finding out.

is there any chance that Tyler Hoechlin was tom’s stunt double on that film? because, i mean...