HELP ME!!!

[Kuhan Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close Kuhan]

Hey guys. I need your help.

My mom doesn't want me buying any comics or comics merchandise (including any sort of GL ring) because she thinks all comic fans are losers. So I need help proving her wrong. I don't know how, maybe gather up a group of Decent looking, successful comic fans and tell me what they do or something. Anything! I just need to prove her wrong. I'd love to buy this stuff on my own. I have the money, but I'm only 15 and can't do it legally.

HELP!!!

[W.West Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close W.West]

Tell her a lot of comic book writers go on to write movies, novels and television shows. Tell her you want to eventually get into the industry. Or spit out some numbers about how many people buy comics and how the SDCC is one the worlds most covered events.

[Kuhan Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close Kuhan]

that could help, but she's a woman. women don't listen to logic

Her responses:
A lot of comic book writers go on to write movies, novels and television shows. - "That's stupid. People who devote their lives to that stuff are also losers"

I want to eventually get into the industry. -

I spit out some numbers about how many people buy comics and how the SDCC is one the worlds most covered events. - Either "They're all losers" or "That's not true."

[Orion Pax Iolande's Bodyguard Find all posts View Profile Close Orion Pax]

that could help, but she's a woman. women don't listen to logic

Her responses:
A lot of comic book writers go on to write movies, novels and television shows. - "That's stupid. People who devote their lives to that stuff are also losers"

I want to eventually get into the industry. -

I spit out some numbers about how many people buy comics and how the SDCC is one the worlds most covered events. - Either "They're all losers" or "That's not true."

Most of those who work in the industry are well payed and all.

Define "loser"

Most of us here, have jobs, gfs and socials lives and we are still major fans.

[Guest Close The Cosmic Geek]

If all she knows is of the negative side comic fans get hit with, show her the postive sides, much like was listed above. Mention some well known people in the world who are into comics, Stephen King is having his books illustrated over at Marvel, that is big.

Also bring up other types of books, ones that aren't super hero related that use this genre to help tell a story.

[Kuhan Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close Kuhan]

she doesn't care about the industry and the stuff they make and the amount of work and labor that goes into these comics. no, she cares about the owner of my LCS and some fat dude she saw at Wal-Mart in a Green Lantern shirt that he probably bought there
Not a loser is someone who doesn't look "weird" and I suppose makes good money, etc, etc.

[Limelantern Better than both the Salami and the Bologna combined Find all posts View Profile Close Limelantern]

So what is the fear here? Thay you will never grow up, find a girlfriend, get beat up at school? It's just another hobby. I have froends that can quote pretty much anything Trent Reznor has said or done, and give dates of when he did it.

Nicholas Cage is a comic geek, feh..looser
Hurricane Helms is a huge GL fan, bet nobody calls him out in public...
Obama, comic nerd...I bet he never moved out of his mother's basement...
Conan O'Brian probably will never amount to anything either..
Is Seinfeld still a billionaire?

[Orion Pax Iolande's Bodyguard Find all posts View Profile Close Orion Pax]

So what is the fear here? Thay you will never grow up, find a girlfriend, get beat up at school? It's just another hobby. I have froends that can quote pretty much anything Trent Reznor has said or done, and give dates of when he did it.

Nicholas Cage is a comic geek, feh..looser
Hurricane Helms is a huge GL fan, bet nobody calls him out in public...
Obama, comic nerd...I bet he never moved out of his mother's basement...
Conan O'Brian probably will never amount to anything either..
Is Seinfeld still a billionaire?

At a guess his mom is afraid that he becomes a social outcast and not one of the "cool dudes" from school.

Empasis on the "".

[Kuhan Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close Kuhan]

Oh, My status really can't change. Everybody already knows I love comics. I actually bring trades I got from the library to school. I don't know what the problem is. I think she sees comic fans as:

So what is the fear here? Thay you will never grow up, find a girlfriend, get beat up at school? It's just another hobby. I have froends that can quote pretty much anything Trent Reznor has said or done, and give dates of when he did it.

Nicholas Cage is a comic geek, feh..looser
Hurricane Helms is a huge GL fan, bet nobody calls him out in public...
Obama, comic nerd...I bet he never moved out of his mother's basement...
Conan O'Brian probably will never amount to anything either..
Is Seinfeld still a billionaire?

Actually, she hates Nick Cage and Conan
I don't know who Hurricane Helms is
Do you have proof on Obama?
And then Seinfeld. But she doesn't say all, just most.

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So what is the fear here? Thay you will never grow up, find a girlfriend, get beat up at school? It's just another hobby. I have froends that can quote pretty much anything Trent Reznor has said or done, and give dates of when he did it.

Nicholas Cage is a comic geek, feh..looser
Hurricane Helms is a huge GL fan, bet nobody calls him out in public...
Obama, comic nerd...I bet he never moved out of his mother's basement...
Conan O'Brian probably will never amount to anything either..
Is Seinfeld still a billionaire?

You forgot Samuel L.Jackson and Quenton Tarintino, man what a bunch of no account losers thay are.

There is also that Peter Jackson guy, he'll neve amount to anything.

[Limelantern Better than both the Salami and the Bologna combined Find all posts View Profile Close Limelantern]

she doesn't care about the industry and the stuff they make and the amount of work and labor that goes into these comics. no, she cares about the owner of my LCS and some fat dude she saw at Wal-Mart in a Green Lantern shirt that he probably bought there
Not a loser is someone who doesn't look "weird" and I suppose makes good money, etc, etc.

Naaah, that guy would be the same even if he never opened a comic even once. Then he would just be walking around Walmart in a Battlestar Galactica shirt or something.

I used to work with a guy who followed that exact description, only he was a Football fantasy league fan. A hard core fan. Only difference was he was not wearing a superman shirt. Those people are just that type, whether they are fans of superheroes, scifi, dungeons and dragons, or fantasy football, sports trivia, and classic punk bands, they are the "super fan" type.

[Kuhan Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close Kuhan]

I know. She doesn't.

I actually gave her Sam Jackson as an example. She said "Okay, whatever."

[Orion Pax Iolande's Bodyguard Find all posts View Profile Close Orion Pax]

Damm, she seems pretty stubborn.

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what is she a fan of? ...... because I'm sure people think the same about stuff she likes .... or she was a comic chick years ago and got picked on relentlessly

[Parrylakks Neko Samurai Find all posts View Profile Close Parrylakks]

Statistically, teens who read comic books turn out to be stronger mentally and more righteous in their everyday life, more prone to good actions than bad. Ask her if she would rather you read comics and be a good person or join a gang and kill/rob people.