Comments on: Behind The Counter #197 - RESPECT, find out what it means. http://www.canadiangeek.org/blog/2008/02/22/behind-the-counter-197-respect-find-out-what-it-means/ Your Source for All Things Geek -- Comics, Movies, Music and, well, Geeks. Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:04:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: Aaron http://www.canadiangeek.org/blog/2008/02/22/behind-the-counter-197-respect-find-out-what-it-means/#comment-5376 Aaron Thu, 28 Feb 2008 07:30:05 +0000 http://www.canadiangeek.org/blog/2008/02/22/behind-the-counter-197-respect-find-out-what-it-means/#comment-5376 I really can't even say if comics are misunderstood. Personally I think every art form has to be misunderstood by someone to some degree. Try dragging me to a wrestling show or a Hanna Montana concert and I'd find an excuse. Comics are like that too. I think since comics are such a colossal importance to us we tend to notice it far more. When Oiler fever hit Edmonton two years ago I didn't even watch one game. I couldn't even name one player until their names where plastered everywhere and it became unavoidable to attain something... However quite often I'll think how much better Star Wars: Episode II would have been with the addition of a ballroom dance. The medium is the message. Comics are cold and a person has to invest a lot into the readership. If you're lucky you'll read something you enjoyed. I always say I hear a good comic like I hear life itself. That said I always find it great how when I really fall for a book/comic the characters voices will change as I grow to understand them better. Ever listen to a friends voice with your eyes closed? It really carries a whole new perspective. Of course as a kid Spider-Man always sounded just like me. He still sounds like me. Also have you ever noticed how sometimes when you recommend a comic to someone they'll flip through and immediately know if they like it or not? It's because every page is a cover, in a sense anyway. First impressions run rampant. I do it too sometimes. It can be a slight glance and I'll pretty much know if and why I like it. Then years later I'll kick myself. Ahem, From Hell... I really can’t even say if comics are misunderstood. Personally I think every art form has to be misunderstood by someone to some degree. Try dragging me to a wrestling show or a Hanna Montana concert and I’d find an excuse. Comics are like that too. I think since comics are such a colossal importance to us we tend to notice it far more. When Oiler fever hit Edmonton two years ago I didn’t even watch one game. I couldn’t even name one player until their names where plastered everywhere and it became unavoidable to attain something… However quite often I’ll think how much better Star Wars: Episode II would have been with the addition of a ballroom dance.

The medium is the message. Comics are cold and a person has to invest a lot into the readership. If you’re lucky you’ll read something you enjoyed. I always say I hear a good comic like I hear life itself.

That said I always find it great how when I really fall for a book/comic the characters voices will change as I grow to understand them better. Ever listen to a friends voice with your eyes closed? It really carries a whole new perspective. Of course as a kid Spider-Man always sounded just like me. He still sounds like me.

Also have you ever noticed how sometimes when you recommend a comic to someone they’ll flip through and immediately know if they like it or not? It’s because every page is a cover, in a sense anyway. First impressions run rampant. I do it too sometimes. It can be a slight glance and I’ll pretty much know if and why I like it. Then years later I’ll kick myself. Ahem, From Hell…

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