Comic-Book
Geek
"No, but my
sister's got a whole bunch of crappy comics!" - Bart Simpson
Like being a computer geek, being a comic-book geek and a girl/woman/babe/femme/whatever is not the easiest of tasks. Like the former, comic-books are very much a male preserve, and women are allowed in mainly as girlfriends, enthusiastic amateurs, marginalised fans of 'girl's comics', or gorgeous eye-candy fantasy material which might be worth persuading to roll in the hay before the guys go back to heir girlfriends.
And for the life of me, I don't understand why.
The world of comic-books doesn't have the excuse of that of computers. Very little testosterone is used in learning about them. Only a little more in learning to write or draw them. In fact, comic-books are rarely a direction in which men channel their energies unless they plan to open a shop based around their knowledge. And that image of the average male comic-book reader as being introverted and strange with dodgy personal hygeine...well, I've not seen any customers like that in the comic shops where I live but I've heard enough from other female comic-book geeks to know it tends to be true.
Anyway, it doesn't bother me too much because I tend to be dismissive of superheroes, which doesn't leave me with many other titles for me to want to look at. Admittedly you get the odd interesting ones like Preacher, but Garth Ennis is too cynical for my tastes and his writing tends to lapse a bit in places. But there have been two titles that have really caught my attention and which I have followed/collected avidly:
Otherwise, most leave me cold. But I still take an interest in the scene. And yes, I do read the Buffy comics when I can. I rarely buy them. But I do read them.
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