super-villian asked: Not really a question but you need to be meaner with this comics blogging stuff. You're too nice for a guy I know has the critical acumen to behead anything and everything he gets presented with. also I don't think I've ever asked you why you're not a scifi guy, have I? this tumblr ask thing is so awkward, isn't it? lets make this question longer somehow
I do, but… man, I hate reading bad comics to even be able to do that. They have it coming, but I don’t have reading them coming. It’s half as fun as writing about comics is otherwise, ‘cause I want nothing to do with the issue when I’m done. A lotta books could use a jab, I’ll admit that for free. I got something coming later this week, though. Somebody said something stupid about piracy and it’s stuck in my craw.
The sci-fi thing is weird. It’s mostly a prose thing, but the bias bleeds into other media, too. I’m open to it (Akira is clearly sci-fi, though it doesn’t feel “sci-fi” to me), but barring a burst of reading in middle school, spaceships and aliens are a harder sell for me. I’m fine with people on planets or whatever, but when people start making up words and languages I just lose interest. Got the same problem with fantasy. Made it through Lord of the Rings right before the first movie came out, and I think that was the last swords and elves fantasy I sought out.
It’s easier in comics than it is in prose, I guess because the artist gives you a skeleton to imagine from. I’m sure if I made a thorough survey of my tastes I’d be as fine with sci-fi as I am anything else, but when I imagine a slate of movies/books I like, I don’t see a lot of sci-fi.
This tumblr ask thing is super awkward, but still interesting. I always avoided doing it because I thought it would be weird. Turns out I was riiiiiiight
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