Yeah, I love goin’ to Borders and reading their comics. The only thing that annoys the crap out of me is when I’m trying to browse the graphic novel section and some dumbass punk kid is sitting in the aisle, reading manga, and leaning against the shelves I am trying to look at.
So many kids do that. They don’t know how to get out of the way when other (potential) customers/freeloaders are trying to look for something. It’s like the kids are so damn engrossed with, like, fucking LOVE HINA that the entire rest of existence ceases to…uh, exist!
I have to step on people sometimes. Or kick them. I haven’t spilled coffee on anyone yet because I don’t drink coffee so I’ve never bought a cup at the bookstore.
My next goal is to drop an Absolute Edition on some unsuspecting kid’s head. At my Borders recently, the staff put them on the top shelf - the top shelf! I can’t wait to go and drop an Absolute Dark Knight on someone! The kid’ll be like, “Hey, wtf man, watch out!” And I can be like, “I’m gonna SPAC this shit down!” and make him cry.
It would be awesome to drop a Lost Girls box set on someone’s head, too. There can’t be much else in the world like getting struck in the noggin by a 15 pound giant hardcover box set of porn.
Clinty, I think I’ve finally realized where your irrational hatred of Millar comes from. It’s 'cause he killed and zombiefied Northstar, eh? He basically ruined the one cool homosexual Canadian superhero.
I understand you now. If I were Canadian, bub, I would hate Mark Millar as well.
You know what the really fucking stupid part is? The big bookstores always have one or two bays of real American comic books and at least twice as much space reserved for manga. They should park their greasy asses in front of the shit that nobody in their right mind would ever want to read, so that I can have access to the shit that I… mostly don’t want to read.
My favourite is how like a lot of the big bookstores now will just throw the two shelves of graphic novels and stuff under the fifteen shelves of manga.
Kinda depressing when you’re looking around for the comic books and you find it under a big “MANGA” sign next to all these kids reading Inuyasha or Yu-Gi-Oh mangas. Honestly, I feel bad enough bootlegging comics in a bookstore…there’s no reason to hurt my self-esteem even more.
Now let’s reenact that “it’s not your fault” scene from Good Will Hunting - you’ll be Robin Williams and I will be Matt Damon.
How could you not have ever seen Good Will Hunting? I thought all English majors were like big pretentious film buffs as well. Ben Affleck has an Oscar sitting on his shelf at home, and Good Will Hunting is why. Ben Affleck is an Academy Award winning actor.
I mean, it was for writing the script, but whatever.
I remember watching part of the DVD with someone this one time. But something came up and I had to go do something else in the middle of the movie, and I never bothered going back to finish what Zephy had started.
There’s just a ton of movies I’ve never watched, despite my English degree. It’s probably because I was always too busy reading comic books at Borders, or trying to figure out loopholes as to why Doctor Doom is Asian.
Merciful Rao, I’d forgotten about Sparrow. I shall add her now. Although I will say she belongs somewhere low on the respect list. LOL, Jim Balent “created” her… She must be the most stacked 14 year old Asian girl ever.