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WHAT I'M THANKFUL FOR 10.20.10

post #1 of 24
10/20/10 at 8:00pm
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post #2 of 24
10/20/10 at 8:19pm
Hollllllllllllllly shit. Welcome to my childhood. I have the same relationship with it you did: it introduced me to reading about movies, but more importantly, it introduced me to Jeff Smith's Bone.
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post #3 of 24
10/20/10 at 8:29pm
Weird. This SEEMS like the exact sort of thing I would've been obsessed with as a kid. I guess maybe after Ranger Rick and Nintendo Power my parents didn't think I needed anymore magazine subscriptions.
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post #4 of 24
10/20/10 at 8:31pm
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Originally Posted by Joshua Miller View Post
Weird. This SEEMS like the exact sort of thing I would've been obsessed with as a kid. I guess maybe after Ranger Rick and Nintendo Power my parents didn't think I needed anymore magazine subscriptions.
I was too busy collecting Mad Magazine to get on these from memory
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post #5 of 24
10/20/10 at 8:45pm
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Hollllllllllllllly shit. Welcome to my childhood. I have the same relationship with it you did: it introduced me to reading about movies, but more importantly, it introduced me to Jeff Smith's Bone.
Beat me to it. I still remember a colorized version of Fone Bone meeting Thorn for the first time. It was one of the first comics to blow my ten-year-old self away, leaving me longing to actually finish the damn thing. Nearly ten years later, I'm still glad I did.
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post #6 of 24
10/20/10 at 8:57pm
I remember reading Bone, too! Clueless moron that I was, I didn't know until years later (thanks, Internet) that it had continued.

It's funny, I often lament that I didn't read a lot of comics as a kid, but I was reading these all the time. I just missed out on the big superhero comics, and that makes me sad. I think I would have been a better person.
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post #7 of 24
10/20/10 at 9:03pm
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Originally Posted by Elisabeth Rappe View Post
I just missed out on the big superhero comics, and that makes me sad. I think I would have been a better person.
In the archaic pre-Internet days I only read shit comics, as I had no older friends to guide me with wisdom. I actually stopped reading comics all together in 8th grade because I determined it sucked as a medium beyond the artwork (thanks Image Comics!). Years later when people started handing me Watchmen, Dark Knight Returns, Bone, Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, Moore's Swamp Thing, Sandman, etc, I was like, "What the fuck?! Where were these why I most needed them?!"
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post #8 of 24
10/20/10 at 9:09pm
Hey wait a second... was that your mother in the comments!? No fair! My Mom never comments on my stuff. Although I suppose it would be hard for my mother and I to find common ground on something like a review of Bisbee Cannibal Club...
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post #9 of 24
10/20/10 at 9:50pm
We were all about Cricket magazine at my house.
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post #10 of 24
10/20/10 at 9:59pm
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In the archaic pre-Internet days I only read shit comics, as I had no older friends to guide me with wisdom. I actually stopped reading comics all together in 8th grade because I determined it sucked as a medium beyond the artwork (thanks Image Comics!). Years later when people started handing me Watchmen, Dark Knight Returns, Bone, Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, Moore's Swamp Thing, Sandman, etc, I was like, "What the fuck?! Where were these why I most needed them?!"

This was also my life. In college, I had friends who vanished for New Comic Wednesday and I mocked them out of ignorance and jealousy.

And then I had to eat my words when I went scraping to them to borrow these "graphic novels" everyone online was talking about.
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post #11 of 24
10/20/10 at 10:10pm
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Hey wait a second... was that your mother in the comments!? No fair! My Mom never comments on my stuff. Although I suppose it would be hard for my mother and I to find common ground on something like a review of Bisbee Cannibal Club...
Yes! Geez. She does that, and scares me. I think it's a stalker imitating my mom, and then I realize it's actually her.

She is the only family member who consistently reads my stuff, and movie sites in general. I can't stop her. She's a huge geek, she has an iphone, and she loves the Internet. I can never tweet drunkenly or post embarrassing photos, but it means I have a family member who loves Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, so that's ok.

I tell people who need a cool mom to chat with her on Twitter or Facebook. And they do. She seems to have adopted a few lonely people as surrogate kids.

Sadly, her Internet presence had nasty repercussions recently (some ex-associates decided she was fair game to attack in lieu of attacking me) but otherwise it's a happy surprise to have her popping onto my places of work.
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post #12 of 24
10/20/10 at 10:17pm
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This was also my life. In college, I had friends who vanished for New Comic Wednesday and I mocked them out of ignorance and jealousy.

And then I had to eat my words when I went scraping to them to borrow these "graphic novels" everyone online was talking about.
God I thought I was the only person round here to get into comics after high school.

Only stuff I got as a kid were Asterix and the odd Phantom omnibus.
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post #13 of 24
10/21/10 at 12:21am
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Yes! Geez. She does that, and scares me. I think it's a stalker imitating my mom, and then I realize it's actually her.
Wait... so you're scared before or after you ascertain that it's her and not your stalker?

My mother doesn't visit me here (sniffle), but is cool enough to have one of my Swamp Thing illustrations framed on her wall at the law office she works at. Plus she didn't drown me, despite my childhood career of giving her valid reasons to do so. So there's that.

But I digress (derail?). Mom's contribution to my comics reading/illustrating career was my often mangled subscription to the Transformers comic book (or, as my father referred to them, "Daddy's beer coasters") and her policy of buying me just about whatever reading material I wanted. I was too old for Disney's magazine, but still... different dope, same pusher!
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post #14 of 24
10/21/10 at 12:23am
I still have an entire box of these magazines at my parents house. In fact, last time I was home I read an absurdly long Darkwing Duck comic in one of them. Good stuff.
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post #15 of 24
10/21/10 at 12:27am
I remember the Bonkers comic with the ersatz Marx Brothers monkeys, before ever seeing Duck Soup. I kind of fell off by the time they started doing Pajama Sam shit.
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post #16 of 24
10/21/10 at 12:45am
I remember a comic book adaptation of the movie Supergirl that changed my life in ways I'd rather not divulge in a thread begun on a Disney theme and containing references to my mother.
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post #17 of 24
10/21/10 at 1:29am
Fuck yeah Bonkers!

I just spent way too much time on this website where a kind soul uploaded a bunch of random scans from old DA's. I also was reminded that in September of 1995 the fourth graders at Matthew Thorton School in Londonberry, New Hampshire declared that Street Hockey was "Hot" and Pro Wrestling was "Not". I distinctly remember this breaking my 11 year old heart. Fuck those assholes.
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post #18 of 24
10/21/10 at 1:50am
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Fuck yeah Bonkers!

I just spent way too much time on this website where a kind soul uploaded a bunch of random scans from old DA's. I also was reminded that in September of 1995 the fourth graders at Matthew Thorton School in Londonberry, New Hampshire declared that Street Hockey was "Hot" and Pro Wrestling was "Not". I distinctly remember this breaking my 11 year old heart. Fuck those assholes.
Great find!


I loved what a stretch the kids always had to make to come up with uncool clothing. About 25 years too late to mock bell-bottoms, guys. Also, the slang was never not funny. Slang tips in a 1994 issue of Disney Adventures are just about the whitest thing that have ever existed.


GOAL IN LIFE: "To not have to work." RED FLAG! RED FLAG!


What music is in? FUCKING ONYX. Fuck New Kids On the Block, we like to slam to "Slam". Look at that sea of Caucasian! Who there is a fucking fan of "All We Got Iz Us"? That's a motherfucking cool group of 5th graders.
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post #19 of 24
10/21/10 at 2:57am
Those sixth graders in New York have terrible eating habits. What a bunch of Herbs.

And I'm trying to remember what the deal was with the words around the border. I don't know why they would list Final Four-->Steven Seagal Again-->Clarissa-->Baseball.
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post #20 of 24
10/21/10 at 3:02am
The start of the section would set up a list, such as "Reasons To Be Glad Summer Is Over" (ah, see pic 1) and the border would list the reasons. I can't for the life of me connect Radioactive Man to Icebergs, though.
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post #21 of 24
10/21/10 at 3:11am
Goddamn, the '90s were lame.
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post #22 of 24
10/21/10 at 4:18am
You know what I just now remembered? I wrote a fan letter (I wish I could remember about what) and Disney Adventures sent me a really nice pin. Not just some kind of swag pin, but a really fancy enamel one. I wrote in about something in issue #2 or #3.

Whoever was the editor (it may even been MacDonald!) wrote the letter and signed it, it was really personal and enthusiastic about whatever I'd written.

I still have the pin, too. I'm going to go look for it.

Anyway...I too remember those various middle schoolers crushing my heart on a monthly basis. "Jello isn't...cool?"
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post #23 of 24
10/21/10 at 6:29am
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Wait... so you're scared before or after you ascertain that it's her and not your stalker?

Oh, before. Stalkers always operate on the insinuations they "know" you.

Then again, it probably IS more startling to discover I actually know the person. It's taken me ages to figure out some of the people who left comments or Twittered feedback on past pieces were old classmates of mine.

Ah, technology.
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post #24 of 24
10/21/10 at 8:03am
Wow; I graduated high school in the early nineties. How can I feel so old and yet still look like the stunt double for Zack the Lego Maniac.
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