A new level of nerd
Apr. 26th, 2006 01:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
perpetual_motionWhen I was a kid there wasn't a lot of money lying around. Thus, if I wanted money to spend I tended to work for my Grandma, who'd have me dust the house or, more likely, pick up walnuts in her yard. I made a penny a walnut. Lucky for me, Grandma has more than one walnut tree in her yard, so I could clean up pretty well. Hey, $3.00 was a lot of money when I was six or seven. My grandma would put me to work and pay me with only one rule. No comic books. Any money I made from my grandma could not be spent on comic books. I was to spend my money on a book if I wanted to read anything, and if I didn't want a new book [this was rare, let me tell you], I could blow the money on candy. But absolutely no comics.
My grandma doesn't have anything against comics, it was that I was young and hadn't yet proven myself to be the insane bookworm I still am today. Comics, she thought, would keep me from picking up books, and she wanted me to understand books. Every now and again, when I had money that wasn't from her, I would buy an Archie comic, but far and wide, my money came from my grandma, and there were no comics allowed.
Luckily, I grew up in the ninties, and the big thing of the ninties were superhero cartoons. I'd sit down after school and watch Batman: The Animated Series. I'd watch X-Men and Spider-Man on the weekends, and to this day I still love those shows. This allowed me to be a pseudo-comic nerd. I could talk about the characters pretty fluently, but I'd always preface with, "I didn't have comics as a kid. I'm a cartoon junkie." Lucky for me, the comic nerds I know, don't particularly care where my knowledge comes from, as long as it's right.
Well, now I make my own money.
And there's a comic shop a couple of miles from my apartment.
And I'm starting to collect back issues of various incarnations of Batman.
And I'm excited because the first trade paperback for the new "Young Avengers" is out today.
And I'm browsing the intrawebs to find copies of the "Ghostbusters: Legion" comic since I may be well and truly screwed by an ebay asshole.
And I'm seriously loving it. I love pretty pictures. I love good writing. Comics really are the best of both worlds. And besides, it just gives me more reasons to visit![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
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My grandma doesn't have anything against comics, it was that I was young and hadn't yet proven myself to be the insane bookworm I still am today. Comics, she thought, would keep me from picking up books, and she wanted me to understand books. Every now and again, when I had money that wasn't from her, I would buy an Archie comic, but far and wide, my money came from my grandma, and there were no comics allowed.
Luckily, I grew up in the ninties, and the big thing of the ninties were superhero cartoons. I'd sit down after school and watch Batman: The Animated Series. I'd watch X-Men and Spider-Man on the weekends, and to this day I still love those shows. This allowed me to be a pseudo-comic nerd. I could talk about the characters pretty fluently, but I'd always preface with, "I didn't have comics as a kid. I'm a cartoon junkie." Lucky for me, the comic nerds I know, don't particularly care where my knowledge comes from, as long as it's right.
Well, now I make my own money.
And there's a comic shop a couple of miles from my apartment.
And I'm starting to collect back issues of various incarnations of Batman.
And I'm excited because the first trade paperback for the new "Young Avengers" is out today.
And I'm browsing the intrawebs to find copies of the "Ghostbusters: Legion" comic since I may be well and truly screwed by an ebay asshole.
And I'm seriously loving it. I love pretty pictures. I love good writing. Comics really are the best of both worlds. And besides, it just gives me more reasons to visit
scans_daily.