Me being my geeky self headed to Borders Books to see some comics. To my surprise the area is crowded I could barely pull a couple book out. The real surprise is that the fans are girls is this becoming more common?
yes gecko it is. i go to comic conventions and comic stores all the time and has been more and more ladies going. in my opinon i think its comics have been becoming more mainstream due to more comic book movies.
"I know I know ive been exposed permeant psychoses..
at least the colors are nice"- Aeon Flux
funny, i was talking about this today with the owner of the comic shop i go to. According to him Magna is really popular amoung the gals. Which goes with what i've seen at Borders/Barnes/Noble, girls reading copies of magna.
Sandman was a title that I knew a lot of girls read.
When I read the title of this thread I envisioned thousands of Mexicans and Canadians at the north & south U.S. borders screaming and holding comics.
Go figure!
This mean I might actually become more popular with the ladies! I might actually be able to get a date (your pathetic Gecko and the answers will still be, no!-Inner Voice)
That's wierd. I can remember when I was wee young lad at the tender age of 12 and touching a comic book in public cursed you into not getting laid for 2 years.
"Or so it goes..." -Kurt Vonnegut
>I can remember when I was wee young lad at the tender age of 12 and touching
>a comic book in public cursed you into not getting laid for 2 years.
Where did you grow up that you were getting laid at 12???
I work at a library, and many teenage girls read manga.
Companies like Tokyopop have recently flooded the market with manga. Unfortunately, a lot of it (and I mean a whole hell of a lot) is crap. I don't think it will last, but I'm not really complaining, because at least some good stuff finds its way through.
My real complaint is the format that's currently popular, which is tiny little books read right to left (backwards to us, forwards to the Japanese). One tiny little books mean tiny little art. Compare the recent Ultimate Authority books which are larger than magazines and the Tokyopop books. Second, while it may seem like a good idea to keep the art in its original state (right to left), the text in the book is still read left to right. It's a nightmare for the flow of the things.
I LOVE manga, I think I like reading the Japanese way more (right to left) and I have no problem at all reading it like that. But I have no difficulty reading American comic books. Is there a word for people who can read both ways (you know there's a word for people who can use both their right and left hand equally)
LoL! My bad sense of humor reigns.
comic fans shop for their schwag at borders? i checked out their section once and it was sh*T. everthing had fingerprints all over it and dog ears and the selection was crap.
It's a decent place to buy trades at. Not many people buy them there so if you're looking for Book #5 in a seven book set it's probably there. I've never bought a comic book there, and don't think I would because of what you said.
You can buy some graphic novels. But yeah never buy one a magazine there.
I could read both left way and the right way. If you can do this you are an independent!
Interestingly, I got a Ranma 1/2 Manga that read left to right, but an Battle Angel Manga reading right to left...didn't really bother me, but was kinda amused
I wasn't trying to say that putting the comic right-to-left makes the comic unreadable. It's pretty easy to read something like that. Only that right-to-left artwork is made for a language that is also read right-to-left. Replacing the original japanese with left-to-right english is just a bad move artistically.
I think it's a cheap ploy to make the comics seem more japanese. Reversing the image would be nigh unto unnoticeable to most readers (except for the handedness of the characters). If they were really concerned they could do what the creator of "Blade of the Immortal" does and chop up the artwork and reformat the entire page.
Of course none of this matters if you're not as nitpicky about comics as I am.
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