Admit it: You’ve always had a nagging suspicion that you’ve been doing this “comic fan” thing all wrong, haven’t you? Well, now iFanboy’s Ryan Haupt is here to… most likely confirm that suspicion, to be honest, with his 10 Commandments of Comic Fandom:
6. Thou shall not covet thy neighbor’s stack
We all wish we could have reading libraries like our heroes Conor Kilpatrick, Jeff Reid, or Pat Loika. But in reality we probably can’t. Either we’re transient perpetual students, mom’s basement only has so much room, or the flood of 2009 destroyed the majority of our collection. At the end of the day, we should appreciate the comics we have, buy (within reason) what we want, and enjoy the spoils of our friends free from jealously.
According to Haupt’s list, I break a full half of the commandments without fear on a regular basis. I am a disaster as a comic fan, apparently.
May 31st, 2012 at 2:29 pm
Wow, dude. Did you not get the joke? Did you not see the mirroring of actual commandments to the list’s purposeful detriment?
Should this post be “Thou shall covet Ryan Haupt’s position at IFanboy, a far superior web-site than Newsarama,” ? Because that’s how it reads to me.
Man, you are running out of things to write about, and I normally like this blog.
May 31st, 2012 at 6:30 pm
“9. Thou shall not defend bad movies just because they came from comics”
That one feels odd to me . Isnt it usually comics book fans that hate some adaptations or nitpick the tiniest changes ?
May 31st, 2012 at 9:20 pm
another useless graemepost
June 1st, 2012 at 6:53 pm
9. Thou shall not defend bad movies just because they came from comics
Agreed. Whedon’s ‘Avengers’ was a trash movie and I’m not afraid to say it.