| Posted: 25 July 2014 at 1:32pm | IP Logged | 6
|
|
|
John Byrne wrote:
| Sadly, there was nothing sarcastic in my comment. Only decades of convention experience. |
|
|
Yeah. Plenty of the people I see at conventions cause me to...wonder...about their backstories.
I guess the thing I find hardest to figure out are people whose relationship with comics doesn't change one iota over two or even three decades. Here they are, in their mid-Forties, still wearing the same clothes they would have worn in high school, still obsessed with acquisition instead of moving on to true appreciation, and still throwing pubescent-teen-style tantrums when a writer or artist does anything to change a comic from what it was when they bought their first issue way back when.
We, as adults, apply a critical eye and discuss our disappointments within a broad context. We also have a sense of proportion. These other folks? Sue Storm changes her hair and suddenly they're wishing cancer upon people.
But whenever I think about the con-going fan,
(aside: I want to remove the hyphen and write about "Congoing Fans." If there are going to be huge lines at Comicon, why can't they be dance lines?)
...I like to think about a specific guy from the "Trekkies" documentary. He's in a Starfleet uniform but he's so well-rooted that I kind of want him to run for a seat on my district's school board.
|
Topic Closed)
