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I was referencing The Invisibles Vol. 2, issue #1, from my friend’s complete collection of GM’s series. As a fellow collector reverent of The Invisibles, I was holding his comic perfectly correctly with my left and so the spine would not bend.
He asked me, “Hey buddy, what the fuck do you think you’re doing?”
And I, in my perfect collector respect for his comics, and comics in general, replied, “This is the fuckin’ Invisibles! I’m babying your book.
And he snapped at me, “Put it on the goddamn table! Put it down right now!”
As afraid for his comic as he ought to have been, I responded, “But the SPINE man. You fool! Doesn’t anyone think about the spines?”
And he barked, “Fuck the spine, when it’s laid on the table it’s fine.” He raised his fingers at me and stabbed them in my direction—waving them like magic fingers on some idiot cheerleader.
I shot back at this gesture, “What the fuckin’ finger oils? Fuck man, the quality on the cover of The Invisibles is such that it stands up better to anyone’s finger oils than the thinly stapled Vertigo spine on those gems stands up to the battering you’re giving them on the adamantine surface of that barbaic desk of yours.”
And he growled, “You just don’t get it do you, you fuckin’ moron! If you put it on the table lightly and don’t beat the hell out of it with unnecessary weight, the spine stays perfect, and you avoid stinkin’ it up with your excretions.”
Needless to say, we had better things to do than debate about comic edict, oops, I meant etiquette. So I put the quote onto my post and forgot about it until now. Then it hit me—like a Zen monk’s stick—what do you the people care about ?
What I’m asking is, are you a left hander or a nohander. |
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