Komix Kompulsion

Becky, Rachel, and today, Holly, have all graced the Komix Korner with their feminine presence this week, threatening to poison the testosterone-laden atmosphere. So unlikely is Holly’s presence in the store that she feels compelled to explain why she is there.

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  3. WTF are these morons babbling about? Why does she need “lessons” in order to buy comic books? What’s so “compulsive” about wanting to complete a collection? It’s like he got so wrapped up in trying (and failing) to do one of his “comic book subculture/inner sanctum” gags that he didn’t bother to check to make sure the dialog made sense. And it doesn’t at all. Just mind-numbingly stupid. He could be using this premise to do gags about dealing with SJ fanatics and Ebay weirdos but nope, instead it’s just a bunch of barely-relevant jabbering at the Korner, featuring wry annoying wisecracks and terrible jokes that do nothing to actually move (lol) the story (lol again) along. What a pitiful hack. And it’s STILL snowing in Westview, too.

  4. Step one: determine which issues you don’t have.
    Step two: find out who has those issues and is willing to sell them.
    Step three: purchase those issues insofar as your interest and budget allow.

    There, Holly, I saved you several smug lectures.

  5. I used to enjoy comic books, a long time ago…they were fun, they were an escape and, if they were published by Marvel, they had some depth to them. They were cool and sometimes they were thought-provoking. But mostly, they were fun. In the years since then, I’ve often thought about picking up the thread.

    Well…No more. This strip makes me feel like I was suffering from a debilitating mental disease, and that I was damn lucky to get out when I did (*cough* mostly moving away to college where they didn’t have comics *cough*),

    I want to thank Tom Batiuk for offering this PSA for people thinking they might want to read comic books. The life you save might be your own!

  7. Lessons! I can’t wait to see the unofficial printed certificate John gives Holly at the end of these “lessons”. Maybe she can put it up on the mantel next to Funky’s “Certified Boob Inspector” cap.

  9. Does Becky use her teeth or her foot to hold the box while shoving in comics into it with her one hand?

  10. Tom Batiuk: “I think I need to establish further that comic book back issues are a thing that exists.”

    Reader: “No! We get it! Comics collecting exists! And the mere fact that it exists is funny…um…somehow!”

    Tom Batiuk: “Are you sure you ACTUALLY get it? I keep getting the feeling that I haven’t established enough that it exists yet. Maybe seven more months of this on-again, off-again arc wi-”

    Reader: *SOB* “NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!”

    Tom Batiuk: “Heh. Things existing. That’s SO FUNNY.”

  11. The really sad part about Tom’s constant harping on comics, beckoning, is that he’s given ACTUAL, VALID “slice of life, reality-based” comics like A CONTRACT WITH GOD or PERSEPOLIS a bad name by his claims that Funky is -anything- like either.

    To make it worse, he also has such an obvious case of barely repressed self-loathing regarding his attachment to old timey super-hero and genre comics that even his alleged positive feelings regarding those come out all tiresome and twisted. With added sexist, outdated notions about women in comics as the frosting on top!

    The final nail in the coffin: Everything he states about the comics industry seems frozen back in the early 90s. Things have changed SO DAMN MUCH since then. It’s really depressing how this one thing he seems to kind of, sort of like gets botched so badly, over and over again.

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