Do you cringe when you see adults reading comics?

Pighead

Pighead realises that he's about to upset 80% of the boards populace by bringing up this emotive topic but it's high time we stopped pussy footing around the issue and talk about it openly like non-comic reading adults.

Was in a library yesterday and there was a kid huddled up at a desk reading a comic with a picture of Superman, some sort of female Superman (Supergirl or Superwoman at a guess) and a white horse (no idea if he was a Superhorse or just a normal one)

Anyway that was fine, and Pighead was just about to continue on his way to the "Intellectual and Clever Books" area of the library when all of a sudden he was stopped in his tracks. The "kid" stood up. He was 6ft something and spoke with a voice that was most definitely belonging to a fully grown man.

Pighead couldn't contain his shock or disgust at the scene before him. The manchild immediately clocked Pighead's reactions and he done what any self respecting embarrassed manchild would have done in that situation. He ran out the door with a face redder than a farmers neck on the sunniest day of the summer.

Why do adults persist with comic books when they know they should have left them behind with their Superted pyjamas and Panini sticker albums. And don't give Pighead all that crap about comic books been produced for an adult audience these days. That's not gonna wash. Comics are for kids and no amount of sexy superhero chcks or blood being spilt will change that in this posters mind.

Small minded? Maybe. Judgemental? Perhaps. 100% right about this? Definitely.

chin_grin

I don't read them but see no harm in it really.

I think Pighead knows that this belongs here.

Also, no.

Just read Arkham Asylum. Would you want your nipper reading this? Doubt it. There are colourful BAM WHACK POW comics for kids, but then there are (sigh) 'graphic novels' for adults. With adult themes, complex horror stories etc.

AnonoBoy

Comic books, like porn mags should be read in complete private at home or perhaps with one other open-minded person.

Ghetto Cornetto

I read them but never in public. It's my secret shame.

So... much... misinformation... >.<

scorn

What's a comic?

Would Calvin and Hobbes be classified as a comic?
Tintin? Asterix and Obelix, and all others like that? If so, I have to admit - I read them.

Vain

Watch out RadioActive man.

mikom

Worst thread everrrrr.

Overheal

THEYRE CALLED GRAPHIC NOVELS


and No.

Pighead

What's wrong with adults reading comics you small minded fool.

chin_grin wrote: »

Just read Arkham Asylum. Would you want your nipper reading this? Doubt it. There are colourful BAM WHACK POW comics for kids, but then there are (sigh) 'graphic novels' for adults. With adult themes, complex horror stories etc.

Yeah but they're in comic book form. Why not buy a book without the pictures and let the words form by themselves in your mind. Comic Books stunt people's brain growth if you ask Pighead. There are five adults in Dundalk who read comics and not one of them can change a lightbulb. Coincidence?

Degsy

Ya only see perverts reading comics..i remeber the Forbidden Planet comicshop used to be full of mac-wearing masturbators..trawling through Buffy graphic novels for thier weekend **** material.
A lot of them had pony-tails too and thats a give-away.

artanevilla

Well:

http://cdn-www.i-am-bored.com/media/16975_comicbooktattooman.jpg

jayteecork

I'm a fully grown "man"(supposedly anyway) and I Just read Batman "A Death in Family"

The one where the second Robin, Jason Todd, dies

****ing awesome, Superman makes an appearance, and the Joker becomes Iran's offical ambassador to the UN! lol.
This was after he sold a nuke to the Lebanon!

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a227/billymdma/m_SDC10205.jpg

Highly recommended.

Professey Chin

I don't read them but see no harm in it really.

TBH id take something like watchmen,v for vendetta or arkham asylum over the vast majority of the so called "classics"

HereticPrincess

I don't read them but see no harm in it really.

Ah comics are awesome.
You wouldn't have kiddies reading such things as Preacher :rolleyes:

sceptre

I like Asterix. At least the funny ones. I think they're the only ones I've read lately (by which I mean when I happened upon PDFs of all of them sometime in the past year), though I must give some of the Alan Moore ones a little looksee at some point. Maybe.

I read the Tintins when I was younger, around the same time as I gave Asterix a first look (in other words, I probably would have been about 12). I think my parents once bought me a Beano... so I remember the Numskulls.

I cringe when I see adults masturbating in public. It doesn't happen very often, happily. Having said that, a combination of that with comics would definitely get me to cringe. Though, at least it's good to see people reading.

AnonoBoy

Overheal wrote: »

THEYRE CALLED GRAPHIC NOVELS

Why do people discuss them in the Comics forum then?

Pighead

What's wrong with adults reading comics you small minded fool.

Overheal wrote: »

THEYRE CALLED GRAPHIC NOVELS


and No.

Graphic Novels! That's just a marketing ploy from the Comic Book Corporations to make the adult feel a little bit less embarrassed about themselves when they purchase their comics. A bit like sanitary towels.

AnonoBoy

Pighead wrote: »

A bit like sanitary towels.

Nothing wrong with having clean towels Pighead.

chin_grin

I don't read them but see no harm in it really.

Pighead wrote: »

Yeah but they're in comic book form. Why not buy a book without the pictures and let the words form by themselves in your mind. Comic Books stunt people's brain growth if you ask Pighead. There are five adults in Dundalk who read comics and not one of them can change a lightbulb. Coincidence?

Does Pighead have the proof that comi.....Graphic Novels stunt people's brain growth? Or is Pigheads opinion law...........Don't answer that!

I would suggest that he read the likes of (of course) Watchmen, or Preacher. Swamp Thing (Alan Moores issues) would be a good place to start too. Y'know before Pighead presses that big red button of JUDGEMENT! :pac:

SoWatchaWant

What's wrong with adults reading comics you small minded fool.

Comic books are for wusses and people with scrawny beards and ponytails living with their parents:)

enniscorthy

would hav to say i was driving the kids to tesco the other day for their halloween costumes beautiful day outside it was wonderful anyway my youngest 2 were in the back reading a wonderful little publication that i like to call SPIDERMAN heheheheheh anyway on seeing this i hopped in the back and read it with them until we reached tesco it brought back so many memories...............:cool:

Pighead

What's wrong with adults reading comics you small minded fool.

chin_grin wrote: »

Does Pighead have the proof that comi.....Graphic Novels stunt people's brain growth? Or is Pigheads opinion law...........Don't answer that!

I would suggest that he read the likes of (of course) Watchmen, or Preacher. Swamp Thing (Alan Moores issues) would be a good place to start too. Y'know before Pighead presses that big red button of JUDGEMENT! :pac:

Listen chinny, you can call Pighead all the names under the sun but it ain't gonna change the fact that he's right about this.

Before Pighead goes on he'd like to thank all the people who have e-mailed him privately in support of what he has said here today. Too busy at the moment to reply to everybody but Pighead promises he will continue fighting on all your behalves.

Anyway, chin_grin. Tell Pighead this. Would you bring a comic book with you if you were about to meet your brand new girlfriends parents for the very first time?

chin_grin

I don't read them but see no harm in it really.

SoWatchaWant wrote: »

Comic books are for wusses and people with scrawny beards and ponytails living with their parents:)

Really?

I...

• live with my OH.
• Don't have a scrawny beard.
• Don't have a pony tail.
• And have been doing BJJ and Kenpo.

caseyann

I don't read them but see no harm in it really.

Pighead wrote: »

Pighead realises that he's about to upset 80% of the boards populace by bringing up this emotive topic but it's high time we stopped pussy footing around the issue and talk about it openly like non-comic reading adults.

Was in a library yesterday and there was a kid huddled up at a desk reading a comic with a picture of Superman, some sort of female Superman (Supergirl or Superwoman at a guess) and a white horse (no idea if he was a Superhorse or just a normal one)

Anyway that was fine, and Pighead was just about to continue on his way to the "Intellectual and Clever Books" area of the library when all of a sudden he was stopped in his tracks. The "kid" stood up. He was 6ft something and spoke with a voice that was most definitely belonging to a fully grown man.

Pighead couldn't contain his shock or disgust at the scene before him. The manchild immediately clocked Pighead's reactions and he done what any self respecting embarrassed manchild would have done in that situation. He ran out the door with a face redder than a farmers neck on the sunniest day of the summer.

Why do adults persist with comic books when they know they should have left them behind with their Superted pyjamas and Panini sticker albums. And don't give Pighead all that crap about comic books been produced for an adult audience these days. That's not gonna wash. Comics are for kids and no amount of sexy superhero chcks or blood being spilt will change that in this posters mind.

Small minded? Maybe. Judgemental? Perhaps. 100% right about this? Definitely.

100% incorrect


God i loved my comics,got me through many a boring night at home
beano dandy,still cant resist picking one up when its in my house
I like a man who isn't embarrassed to watch cartoons and read comics some how endearing that they still have that sense of imagination and softness behind the bravado:) Life is to harsh and sometimes escape of reality and gruesome stereo typing of how men should act is really nice to witness
Read away whoever wishes to life is for living not for anyone to judge what you read because you hit a certain age.For the rest who think its embarrassing and they should be embarrased for reading it, i feel sorry for you
Brings back nice childhood memories.

ejmaztec

Degsy wrote: »

Ya only see perverts reading comics..i remeber the Forbidden Planet comicshop used to be full of mac-wearing masturbators..trawling through Buffy graphic novels for thier weekend **** material.
A lot of them had pony-tails too and thats a give-away.

Did you walk in there by accident, thinking it was the Bono Hate Club?

enniscorthy

caseyann wrote: »

100% incorrect


God i loved my comics,got me through many a boring night at home
beano dandy,still cant resist picking one up when its in my house
I like a man who isn't embarrassed to watch cartoons and read comics some how endearing that they still have that sense of imagination and softness behind the bravado:) Life is to harsh and sometimes escape of reality and gruesome stereo typing of how men should act is really nice to witness
Read away whoever wishes to life is for living not for anyone to judge how you should what you read because you hit a certain age.For the rest who think its embarrassing and they should be i feel sorry for you
Brings back nice childhood memories.

defo

enniscorthy

enniscorthy wrote: »

would hav to say i was driving the kids to tesco the other day for their halloween costumes beautiful day outside it was wonderful anyway my youngest 2 were in the back reading a wonderful little publication that i like to call SPIDERMAN heheheheheh anyway on seeing this i hopped in the back and read it with them until we reached tesco it brought back so many memories...............:cool:

i put the brick on the accelerator :P

deepeedub

:eek: speechless

caseyann

I don't read them but see no harm in it really.

enniscorthy wrote: »

would hav to say i was driving the kids to tesco the other day for their halloween costumes beautiful day outside it was wonderful anyway my youngest 2 were in the back reading a wonderful little publication that i like to call SPIDERMAN heheheheheh anyway on seeing this i hopped in the back and read it with them until we reached tesco it brought back so many memories...............:cool:

Hahahahaha i encourage mine to buy so i can read when they are done :olol

enniscorthy

deepeedub wrote: »

:eek: speechless

hows ur fanny for a lodger :P:P:P:P

enniscorthy

caseyann wrote: »

Hahahahaha i encourage mine to buy so i can read when they are done :olol

mate

Gummy Panda

Degsy wrote: »

Ya only see perverts reading comics..i remeber the Forbidden Planet comicshop used to be full of mac-wearing masturbators..trawling through Buffy graphic novels for thier weekend **** material.
A lot of them had pony-tails too and thats a give-away.

What were you doing in Forbidden Planet, Degs?

laurashambles

I know where you're coming from there Pighead. Honest to god, what are these people thinking? I heard that Alan Moore fella that the anoraks cream themselves over did a comic adaptation of Alice in Wonderland. Lost Girls I think it was called. How very... credible.

(Serious note: If you must google the words "lost girls", any images you come across will almost certainly be NSFW. Don't say I didn't warn you. *shudder*)

Rebel021

scorn wrote: »

Would Calvin and Hobbes be classified as a comic?
.

I love C&H:D:D:D

chin_grin

I don't read them but see no harm in it really.

Pighead wrote: »

Anyway, chin_grin. Tell Pighead this. Would you bring a comic book with you if you were about to meet your brand new girlfriends parents for the very first time?

Depended if I wanted to strike up a conversation about witchcraft and the occult. Or social psychology and the role of the self in todays society. Or superheroes, prancing leotard wearing nut-jobs or that other thing?

Also my argument for comics. They brought you Michelle Phffhfhfhfhffhfhfhefffheher as Cat Woman and also going to bring you Scarlett Johansson (as Black Widow in Iron Man 2). Hnyah! Phththththththththhtht.

.......although......no.........wait. Watchmen brought you big wobbly blue penis..........sh*t.

AnonoBoy

deepeedub wrote: »

:eek: speechless

Epic first post.

4zn76tysfajdxp

I don't read them but see no harm in it really.

Overheal wrote: »

THEYRE CALLED GRAPHIC NOVELS

I've posted about this before, but here I go again. The words "graphic novel" are bullshit and a desperately pathetic bid to legitimise an artform. I like comics, and I read them the odd time, but they are definitively called "comics." Calling them "graphic novels" doesn't make them grown up, the material does.

By the way, you're wrong Pighead.

Pighead

What's wrong with adults reading comics you small minded fool.

chin_grin wrote: »

Depended if I wanted to strike up a conversation about witchcraft and the occult. Or social psychology and the role of the self in todays society. Or superheroes, prancing leotard wearing nut-jobs or that other thing?

Also my argument for comics. They brought you Michelle Phffhfhfhfhffhfhfhefffheher as Cat Woman and also going to bring you Scarlett Johansson (as Black Widow in Iron Man 2). Hnyah! Phththththththththhtht.

.......although......no.........wait. Watchmen brought you big wobbly blue penis..........sh*t.

Pigheads argument against comics: Have just googled that superman/ supergirl/ white horse comic that the embarrassed man was reading in the library. Turns out Supergirl owns the white horse and has called it Comet. And that's when things start to get a little bit sinister. And Pighead quotes:

You see, according to the comic, Comet was once a centaur called Biron back in ancient Greece. He was turned into a full horse by a witch, though as a small consolation, he gained superpowers and kept his humongous horse penis.

Also, Comet periodically turns into a full human, at which point he does what any horse would do: Try to get laid with Supergirl before she can figure out he is really her horse.

You see, the horse is in love with the girl who, while he's in horse mode, dry humps his back as a means of transport.The horse Comet

Absolutely sickening. Pighead would go as far as to call readers of this filth deviants.

Canis Lupus

What's wrong with adults reading comics you small minded fool.

Comics and WF wrestling. Two things adults shouldn't be involved in.

Pighead

What's wrong with adults reading comics you small minded fool.

Zain Hallowed Hallway wrote: »

By the way, you're wrong Pighead.

The hundreds of e-mails Pighead has received in support of this thread would suggest otherwise. Maybe it is you that is wrong Zain Hallowed Hallway. And you too chin_grin.

4zn76tysfajdxp

I don't read them but see no harm in it really.

Pighead wrote: »

Pighead would go as far as to call readers of this filth deviants.

You think that's bad Pighead?

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2097/2143743934_543415890f.jpg

caseyann

I don't read them but see no harm in it really.

enniscorthy wrote: »

mate

One of the many perks of having kids

Ruu_Old

I don't read them but see no harm in it really.

I still read the Beano and am a member of the Dennis the Menace (and Gnasher) fan club! :mad:

G_R

I read them but never in public. It's my secret shame.

ah Pighead, can you honestly say you've never ever ever looked at the comic strip in the newspaper??

Canis Lupus

What's wrong with adults reading comics you small minded fool.

http://www.jokeindex.com/joke.asp?Joke=3757

Degsy

Gummy Panda wrote: »

What were you doing in Forbidden Planet, Degs?

Er...nothing

enniscorthy

caseyann wrote: »

One of the many perks of having kids

hiya mate not to mention eating rice crispy buns heheheh

Gummy Panda

Zain Hallowed Hallway wrote: »

I've posted about this before, but here I go again. The words "graphic novel" are bullshit and a desperately pathetic bid to legitimise an artform. I like comics, and I read them the odd time, but they are definitively called "comics." Calling them "graphic novels" doesn't make them grown up, the material does.

By the way, you're wrong Pighead.

Yes, we all know of your love for Shirow Masamune's art. Its still durrty!!

chin_grin

I don't read them but see no harm in it really.

Oooh ooh The Far Side! Work of genius and in comic form. Mwahahahahahahahaha!

admiralofthefleet

I don't read them but see no harm in it really.

i read viz so no

caseyann

I don't read them but see no harm in it really.

enniscorthy wrote: »

hiya mate not to mention eating rice crispy buns heheheh

hiya mate:cool: lmao yep and birthday parties and cinema for the lamest movies in world