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The Trenchcoat Brigade.

 
  

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Jack Fear
11:54 / 17.12.02
...nothing about ccm suggests that he is a long-time or ardent comics fan...

Oh for fuck's sake...

Maybe I should start wearing a too-small Green Lantern T-shirt for my trips to the comics store, instead of my workday clothes. And maybe I should make loud braying conversation (monologue, really) about how Rick Veitch's new AQUAMAN series is "ruining the character"...

You know, I saw a fellow in the record store buying hip-hop CDs--and he didn't have gold teeth or rope chains or anything! What the hell kind of a rap fan is he, anyway? No gang colors, no gun tucked in his waistband--he wasn't venb wearing phat pants! And I didn't get a good enough look at him to tell for sure but... I think he might've been... white!

I mean, Jesus, what's up with THAT?
 
 
CameronStewart
15:15 / 17.12.02
>>>People like Cam moan about them all the time. <<<

>>>And Cam may well bitch about them, but they fucking pay his rent, so he'd be wiser to shut up about it.<<<

Hey hey hey! Leave me out of this one, will you? You're putting words in my mouth. Stop it.

Also stop calling me Cam.
 
 
Matthew Fluxington
15:26 / 17.12.02
If a normal-looking woman was going into the shop and buying a bunch of comics every week, would you also jump to the conclusion that she was not reading them and buying them for her boyfriend/husband/children?

I don't get it. Are we so used to negative stereotypes of comics buyers that we're willing to question people who thankfully don't fit the stereotype? Shouldn't we just be glad that not everyone is of the milk-smelling Green Lantern shirt type? Including most of ourselves?
 
 
The Falcon
15:37 / 17.12.02
I kind-of want a Green Lantern t-shirt...
 
 
Jack Fear
15:40 / 17.12.02
You really are odd.
 
 
The Falcon
01:59 / 18.12.02
It's a design classic! Man!

Oh, I get it...
 
 
Dave Philpott
02:37 / 18.12.02
So long as the old farts are READING the fucking comics instead of "Oooh, how much will THIS one be worth??" then all's fair, yeah?

And if you're one of these who don't read the comics, please, take offense. They ain't Beanie Babies (tho' the image of some soccer-mom trying to hold down comics on a folding table in a windy Hardees parking lot is kinda funny.)
 
 
deja_vroom
09:25 / 18.12.02
(sigh)
I always wanted a Green Lantern t-shirt. I would never wear it outside, though. Just inside my room, running, leaping on my bed and making blast noises. That would be fun.
 
 
Char Aina
11:35 / 18.12.02
i have a green lantern shirt. and i fucking love it. and i havent been visiting a comic shop reguarly in ages. does that make me gay?
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
11:46 / 18.12.02
No, that's bread. Bread makes you gay.

A friend of mine was asking whether to get her GBF a Green Lantern T-shirt; neither of them know anything of superheroes, but she thought that having this design, whose meaning remained obscure to its wearer, on his chest would encourage intelligent, quirky young men to chat him up, and generally break the ice. I almost didn't have the heart to tell her.
 
 
glassonion
16:15 / 18.12.02
i'd love one too but they're always fucking xxl. really good, y'know...fer kids.
 
 
Mister Six, whom all the girls
18:47 / 18.12.02
Funniest experience in a comic store was when a dude walked in, apparently for the first time in six years with a mate who was shopping. The dude looked around like he owned the place and eventually asked the proprieter, "Hey, how much is that death of Superman going for? I got three." The owner frowned and said (painfully) "Three bucks?" The dude was furious, asking about Spawn, Spider-Man (By Todd M), etc, always to hear the same story.

"Man! I expected them to be worth at least a hundred! What the Hell happened?"

I love to see these 'investors' shaken.
 
 
Mister Six, whom all the girls
18:48 / 18.12.02
My GL shirt glows in the dark.

Gay check?
 
 
Mr Tricks
19:56 / 18.12.02
When i was a Kid my father (a ailor) made the coolest batman costume for me... total Adam West era cowl & cape. Wore a grey sweat shirt with the Black Bat MagicMarkered on myself... Sigh, that was a great costume...

Oh er... what were we talking about?
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
20:06 / 18.12.02
Yeah, I hate the whole "speculatory" side. But, I guess, they are paying... when I used to work at Forbidden Planet, it was always heartbreaking to see some old dear come in just before Christmas to buy her grandchildren the action figure he craved, only to be told that there were none left because some bastard who wasn't even gonna play with it had come in ten minutes previously and bought the lot.

I guess if I was a bigshot comics writer, yes, I'd be glad people were buying the stuff and putting a roof over my head, but I'd be kind of hurt that all the hard work I'd put in wasn't being appreciated.
 
 
Brigade du jour
19:34 / 19.12.02
Ooh Stoatie you struck one of my chords - why do people buy the action figures and then ... (deep breath, tighten the anger straps) KEEP THEM IN THE FUCKING BOX FOR THE REST OF THE THEIR LIVES? What part of 'action figure' don't they understand? It's the action part isn't it.

I've been buying a few of these myself recently and they were straight out of the box and attacking each other with gusto. Why, as I speak, the Hulk and the Thing are engaging in one of their legendary battles on top of my defunct CD player.

Excuse me, I'm just going to lie down for a while.
 
 
Matthew Fluxington
19:41 / 19.12.02
I had a good quiet chuckle to myself when I was in St Mark's Comics in Brooklyn Heights, and there was a guy skulking about in a hooded Green Lantern sweatshirt. I thought of this thread, I did.
 
 
Brigade du jour
20:06 / 19.12.02
I would have actually bought a Xavier School for Gifted Children t-shirt I found in Streatham but it was for slim ladies, and I am a hefty young lad.
 
 
The Falcon
01:57 / 20.12.02
See if you could buy Cyclops new jacket? I totally would.
 
 
Sax
06:32 / 20.12.02
Heh. I love Barbelith. A thread that begins with roundly attacking men in suits who buy comics on credit cards evolves into a discussion about favourite comics-related T-shirts, with no discernable irony whatsoever.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
08:30 / 20.12.02
Oh, believe me, the irony is discernible. Just not intentional...
 
 
The Falcon
14:54 / 20.12.02
You think?
 
 
Eloi Tsabaoth
16:00 / 20.12.02
What about a Green Lantern tattoo? Better or worse?
Does it depend on which Green Lantern it is?
And which buttock?
 
 
deja_vroom
16:41 / 20.12.02

Blast! Zap! Ka-Pwinnng!
 
 
deja_vroom
16:45 / 20.12.02
And... ew.
 
 
Matthew Fluxington
16:55 / 20.12.02
Ah, but is it so much worse than an Abercrombie & Fitch logo? Or one of those really horrible novelty shirts that say things like "Vaginas Are The Box The Penis Comes In" or a parody of the Skittles logo that reads "Shittles"? Stuff like this?
 
 
Char Aina
16:58 / 20.12.02
somehow, on a vest it becomes all the more gay. and at the same time, badly. badly gay.


[wearing his GL tee as he types]
 
 
Matthew Fluxington
17:15 / 20.12.02
...and of course, there is nothing in this world worse than being gay...
 
 
Char Aina
22:35 / 20.12.02
it can be hot.

a hot day is good.


it can be badly hot.

when you die of heat exhaustion.





correct my grammar, but not my politics, please, if you found that unclear.

"often an observation says more about the observer than the subject being observed."
 
 
The Falcon
02:36 / 21.12.02
Thanks for that one toksik. I think I may parrot it repeatedly until everyone shuts their PC-OBSERVANT MOUTHS on this board.

Sandman is gay, too.

But I quite like it.

Is 'gay' the new 'bastard'?
 
 
Char Aina
11:05 / 21.12.02
its not their fault, its because they are lesbians and also lebanese.


fukkin lesbanesians.
 
 
Matthew Fluxington
14:37 / 21.12.02
Oh brother. There's just no shortage of Knodge Jr.'s out there who want to come to Barbelith and tell us all that we're PC fascists and that there ain't nothing wrong with their clever nod-and-wink form of homophobia, is there?
 
 
The Falcon
14:58 / 21.12.02
What the fuck are you talking about, you finger-pointing tit?

Idiot.
 
 
The Falcon
15:09 / 21.12.02
And another thing Flux - the audience you seem so desperate to play to with your superior asides isn't there: 'aw, yeah, look at these guys, they think they can come on Barbelith and...' Is the place changing? Yeah - now keep up. Change does not = death.

It's the debris of debate to accuse people of homophobia, racism, sexism and all. As if you know best. As if someone here's gonna go "well, I am actually.." Except Knodge maybe; and I don't take very kindly to being compared to a stalker, you knob.

It's a shame, 'cos I like a fair percentage of what you've got to say. But you seem intent on being a twat.
 
 
Matthew Fluxington
16:17 / 21.12.02
I'll try to keep up with the Knodge World Order. Maybe I just need to get beaten up, so that I can be a real man, and then I'll probably understand why "gay" is a good word to use to ridicule something. I'm just a "pansy", is all.
 
  

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