Millarworld asks: “How can you convert the great unwashed?“:

“A funny thing happened Saturday went into the LCS to pick up a few bits and pieces. Since the missus was with me she braved the smell and the undersexed patrons (well, I assume they were patrons. They were 9 of them all crowded round playing a CGG) and came in with me. Now, this is where it starts getting a little odd. I was having a quick browse, when she spots one of Runaways trades (the latest one, I think), picks it up, reads the back and proclaims that she wants to read it. The odd thing being that out of the varying genres, I buy she’s never shown any interest in reading them whatsoever. Actually, scratch that, she does want to read Pride of Baghdad since I told her what it was about. I think it’s the lions that sold it to her, to be honest. So now I’m about 14 quid lighter after buying her the first 3 volumes of Runaways. I frankly have no idea what happened. One minute she’s someone who reads books without pictures (I’d heard they existed) the next she’s been converted by Runaways. So… has anyone come across this before? Someone who has never read funny books and, without being prompted, picks something up and says ‘I want to read this’? What was it and did it lead to anything else?”

“i worked with some middle aged woman at a call center, and she got bored one day and asked me for something to read(i always bring in a few tpbs), so i let her borrow Y: the last man……she LOVED em, then she read, DEMO, Pride of Baghdad(she loved this as well, she let her friend borrow them who then let her military friends borrow it and everyone said it was beautiful, only took me like a week and half to get it back, Mystery Play(didnt like it), Seaguy(didnt like it), and We3. Now shes reading transmetropolitan and i hafta go back to that job just to give her more issues even thou i no longer work there.”

Note the common thread in those two events. It’s worth pointing out that my wife, not entirely known for her comic reading habits, is addicted to almost everything BKV writes, so obviously he’s putting out four color pheromones or something, the sneaky kid. Meanwhile, not everyone has the comic love:

“My girlfriend criticizes the covers of the stuff I buy most weeks. But on the other hand, she likes Roman Dirge, so what the [expletive deleted to protect the innocent] does she know.”

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