What do your family and friends think of your comic book hobby?

>>93671795
My dad says they're fucking gay.

>>93671795
My friend who got me into comics killed himself and left all his comics to me. there's some issue with cumstains on Black Cat

Sister calls me nerdington.
Brother doesn't talk to me.

>>93671922
your dad's a faggot. no offense

>>93671972
i would be worried if there WEREN'T cumstains on Black Cat

>>93672110
>>93671972
Underrated waifu.

>>93671795
Dad wants me to try to find a way to make money off my hobby.

My friends like taking me to cape films cause I can usually explain Easter eggs and shit. Sometimes they'll ask about what's a good comic or animated shit.

>>93671972
I know that feel anon. Got my friend into Morrison Batman and Robin. Had someone who actually read comics on a monthly basis and we'd shoot the shit about it. He died a couple months ago so all I have to talk are you fags

>>93672138
indeed.
>>93671972
i think an in memoriam fap is in order

Parents think it's cool.
Sister calls me a nerd.
Friends call me a nerd/ are mildly impressed with my knowledge.

>>93671795
They don't care, it's just a hobby. Why would someones hobby bother people? Especially if that hobby is literally just reading a few books.

Is this an American thing? Kinda like how you hear stories about family's disowning kids because they say they're an atheist?

>>93671972
>>93672110
>>93672138
>>93672245
POST BLACK CAT
preferable clothed

>>93672396
b-boobs

I have one friend that knows how much I like comics, he is pretty cool about it, like I'll meet up with him after getting new stuff on Wednesday and get a beer, we don't talk comics though. My brother buys comics but mostly as inspiration for his own art stuff. I have a cousin that liked comics but he only liked cape stuff. But besides that I don't like letting people know I like comics. Most people in my experience will just talk about cape films and stuff that they have read about on instagram.

>>93672700
What kind of art does your brother do?

>>93671795
Dad hates them. " They're for babies".

Meanwhile he farts for fun. Some baby boomers are weird people.

>>93672396
>>>aco

>>93672396
Dammit, I just finished fapping!

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>>93672266
It's worldwide.

>>93672266
>Comics books aren't serious business
I bet you don't even firebomb your favorite comic shop when your waifu is cancelled

>>93672966
Kill yourself namefag

>>93673198
Lol triggered. Why not let me meet you irl you bald steven universe watching midget.

Maybe I will kill YOU for fun.

>>93671795
My dad encouraged me when I started getting serious about it since grandma sold his collection when he was a teenager. Sometimes he'll go with me to our LCS and see comics he had that go for around 400 dollars at the minimum.

>>93672901
I guess it would be like street /graffiti type art. Like he will write a word and do a character I'm the background or something

>>93671795
father got me into this

>>93671795
>Austin Books & Comics
shit yeah. I loved living literally right across the street from them last year

Anyway, I feel like my age range in 2017 is pretty accepting of most hobbies people are into so long as you aren't super weird about it. We know we're all just killing time

I don't really collect a lot of comics since I don't like clutter but I've had very casual regular friends see the couple of trades (CoIE, Batman Year 100, Spiderman Blue, Animal Man, BPRD) on my book shelf and ask about them out of genuine curiosity about why I'm interested in them. I've let friends borrow some and half the time it's either "holy shit I loved that." or "Oh yeah I flipped through it and didn't get around to reading it"

I don't think my dad really cares about any of my interests aside from basketball but he does know I like comics and will usually ask if I want to go see the new Batman movie or whatever with him when I'm back home. He really liked BvS

My parents don't mind.

>>93673296
>>>/r/comicbooks

all my past GF's have called me there sexy nerd or would say thing like you & your comic books. Some times I think im just a fetish to them. My family doesn't know I read comic books. (^o^)

they ignore it

>>93672266
Yes, that shit is purely American. I blame it on the shitty market and the big American comics being hard to get into.

>>93672266
In case you haven't noticed American people overreact to every situation imaginable.

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>>93671795
My dad is low-key into comics. Has some Asterix, Doonesbury, and Calvin & Hobbes books, and some books called Odd Bodkins that I've never heard of anywhere else

>>93671795

My mom just thinks it's insane to house so much physical shit. And she's kinda right, I've got couple of bookshelves full of comics and boxes of old back issues sitting in the basement.

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Love it and love it.

Mom
>Loves Batman, Iron Man and Spiderman
>Hates Superman and Captain America tho :(

Dad
>Loves Iron Man, Spawn, Punisher and Swamp Thing

Step-Dad
>Loves Black Knight, Batman, Superman and Captain America

Best friend
>Loves Dr. Fate, X-Men, Batman and Iron Man

Wife
>Loves Superman, Thor, Flash and Green Lantern
She has amazing taste, imo

And then me
>Iron Man, Superman, Batman and Bane
I have to mention a supervillain because he's in my "Will literally read and issue featuring him, and have: category

I have 10 short boxes and 6 long boxes of comics I've accumulated over about 5 years of collecting. Ranging from 60's to modern Marvel and DC. Currently working on finishing a full run of JiM/Mighty Thor. Sometimes I think I'm the only person my age, aside from two of my other collecting friends, that actually likes owning stuff. Yeah it takes effort to display things well but, it is so satisfying to sit in your dragon hoard.

My father says that as long as it makes me happy he doesn't mind it (but sometimes he mentions that in the future we can sell the book for the higher price, but I don't wanna)

My mother is suprised by how much I spend money on comics, but I have't seen her complaining about it.

One of my friends loves to listen to me when I talk about comics, because I talk with passion. That's pretty much how I got her interested in my favourite franchise.

>>93671795
If I had a family or friends, I'd like to think they'd be okay with it.

>>93678781
Anon, you have the most bland taste in your entire family.

>>93678981
Talking about things passionately is a great way to be attractive. Though there is a fine line between speaking passionately and getting autistic.

Value of books (and I do have books of real value) is one of the way I justify spending $100+ on a single key issue, and the ever increasing price of those keys. But I never have any intention of selling them. I'd turn my house into a museum before that. If I fail to raise children that appreciate them I'll do my damndest to write an inability to sell them into my will until someone is born into the family that truly appreciates them.

>>93671795
They don't like them or hate them. It's just meh to them and they listen politely when I ramble on about heroes or stories. Still they contribute by telling me about new releases or fleamarket finds.

>>93679019
Yeah well, I likes what I like.

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>>93671795
My mom kinda steeled herself for everything early on when she saw I was a nerd, now all the comics, anime, and video games are just kind of par for the course. She doesn't take an interest but she doesn't have a problem with them either.
My dad used to read comics, and I actually got into them because of him. He grew out of them long before I was born, but he still enjoyed the movies and going to see them together kinda became our thing after my parents split up. The X-men ones with Wolverine were his favorite.
I really wish he'd lived to see Logan, he would have really liked it.

>>93679052
>Though there is a fine line between speaking passionately and getting autistic.
That's true. I have a friend, who loves to read Black Butler. She always talks about it. We have asked her multiple times to stop, because we were sick of it, but she would always say ''No, I can talk about whatever I want whenever I want'', which is annoying and doesn't make any sense at all. She even dyed her hair red in honor of one of the characters.
She has a boyfriend tho.

>>93679135
>I can talk about things I like to people who don't like it if I want.
I used to be like this, and can say, it's the worst kind of autism.

>>93671795

I'm captain fucking normie in my day to day life. Girlfriend, decent job, like sports. So nobody gives me shit for reading comics. I'm treated like an encyclopedia when friends want to know about heroes when the latest film comes out.

>>93671795
The people I know don't really mind.

My dad had geeky interests in college (DnD, comics, sci-fi pulp novels) but doesn't really give a shit about anything but tv now. It makes him insufferable to talk hobbies with because he thinks knowing a handful of trivia makes him a goddamn expert on everything. At least once a year he'll go on about Spider-Man being as strong as Superman, so, no, he's not ashamed of me, but I avoid conversations about it at all costs.

My brother will keep a pull list every now and then and has been a Deadpool fan boy for like 10 years now. We don't read any of the same stuff so it never comes up.

My husband reads 90% Manga and the occasional trade I throw his way.

My daughter is too young to think anything about it but I've been putting together a collection of stuff suitable for her when she can read.

Everyone else is as clichéd normal as possible so it just doesn't come up. I doubt anyone cares because I not a weirdo about it.

no different than reading novels for the most part. In fact, these days more people will ask what I'm reading if I'm reading a comic rather than a novel.

Sis, got me into reading superhero comics with Simonson's Thor Omnibus

Friends either read a little or read manga

Dad doesn't quite get it cause I don't think he's ever tried reading a comic besides a golden age superhero one. But he reads a ton of novels and is used to me buying lots of books.

>>93671795
My parents think it's better than me being on drugs, try not to show my powerlevel at work, and my girlfriend thinks it's cute of course, she's a hardcore gamer, so neither of us has room to judge.

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The ones who know don't seem to mind, the rest don't know.

>>93671972
Was it Claws?
I bet it was Claws.

>>93679122
rip

>>93681906
The first Marvel Knights Spider-Man arc.

>>93682461
patrician

>>93671795
My grandfather encourages it because he used to buy comics. It's his old Richie Rich collection that got me into comics.

My father doesn't care. My mother stopped caring once I got a full time job.

My brother borrows my capeshit. My sister, my indie shit.

One friend I can talk to a lot about comics, the others, only after seeing a cape movie or similar.

>>93671972
based

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Either they read comics themselves or don't care. My dad reads plenty of comics and I started out by reading his books.

Friends use me as an encyclopedia of knowledge every time there's a cape flick.

Mom and sister don't seem to give a fuck and my Dad has never commented on it once ever.

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>>93671795
When my mom saw I was into comics she said "My friend has a ton of Marvel stuff he hasn't read in years. Want 'em? I can ask." She came home with a box full of floppies one day

The rest of the clan doesn't really care

Friends are into cape movies but feel the comics are too weird

>>93686581
>She came home with a box full of floppies one day
Did you get anything good in there?

>>93686581
>Friends are into cape movies but feel the comics are too weird.
I've never gotten this, why is it that the movies are deemed cool but the source material is often seen as too nerdy or weird?

>>93686706
It's harder to get into, I guess is the main reason?

>>93672192
Shit, your friends (and friend) seems like real nice people.

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I was really nervous getting into it because I have a shut in hikki weeb cousin who was an avid anime collector and is a pedophile and I was worried my folks would worry I'm like him. I still wont buy figurines or statues because of it

>>93687409
>is a pedophile
How did the family find out?

>>93687494
I dont know the specifics. He probably had a lot of loli shit. he was eventually convicted of possessing child porn so it's not like they were wrong.

>>93671972
>Keeping a comic with cumstains on it
That's why you buy two copies

>>93671795
My dad is a huge comic nerd so he thinks its great. My mom reads lots of books, watches genre tv, and I know for a fact she has a hentai vhs collection. She tries to support my hobby as much as she can with her limited knowledge.

>>93688178
And its tentacle hentai.

>>93688178
>>93688188
wat
Do you watch it together?

>>93688598
no, but ive found the vhs's before. I've never brought it up.

>>93686706
People don't like reading, by and large. Most just don't want to straight up admit it so they shit on the material. I mean hiw would you know the comics are "too weird" if you haven't read them?

My best friend supposedly likes Hellboy comics, but there has got to be a blackout or something to get him to read ANYTHING over streaming TV of some sort.

>>93688613
maybe something even more embarrassing is on the tape

>>93688650
plz no, you are tempting me to go find it and watch it...

>>93671795

My pastor and his son, who is next in line to be the pastor of my church, thinks I'm immature because I like capefilms and comics and won't take me seriously. So I won't advance to higher things in church ever.

Other than that, my family thinks it's immature, my closer friends think it's cool, my general acquaintances are in between.

>>93688684
DO IT

>>93688787
>My pastor and his son, who is next in line to be the pastor of my church, thinks I'm immature because I like capefilms and comics and won't take me seriously. So I won't advance to higher things in church ever.
What is your current involvement in the church, what would you like to be doing, and why does a religious leader let something as petty as your media preferences get in the way of that?

>sisters think I'm weird/a nerd but they always thought that
>dad doesn't really care past showing passing interest
>nephew used to ask to read/borrow books (he annoyed me because he would just flip through and read the "interesting looking" pages of like Runaways) but he's a teenager now so probably thinks I'm lame
>nieces don't care
>mom thinks they're a waste of money but doesn't care as long as I'm happy-- showed her how much some of the omnibuses I bought years ago go for now, luckily she forgot

My friends just think I'm a hipster but my record collection does that already. Occasionally they'll ask me to explain movie shit or ask for reccs.