comics aren't just for kids anymore

[readingthedark]

So the customer asked:

"Where do you keep the comics for adults like...

*wait for it*

...Calvin and Hobbes?"

Puh-lease. Yummy Fur, Lost Girls, Sandman, Preacher, The Dreaming, Promethea, Invisibles or Transmet would all qualify, as would thirty percent of most comic shoppes, but that guy was too dumb to ever get it.

Maybe overall literacy was the issue and I'm being too harsh.

A co-worker tried to talk me down by saying, "If all you've ever seen is Archie and Jughead..."

There was also a lovely anecdote about a woman who put 25 packages of artificial sweetener into her coffee but I heard it second hand and I don't remember it well enough to retell it and I'm too lethargic to re-invent a realistic version.

Comments

[infinitehotel.livejournal.com]

It probably depends on how you define adult too. If I were shopping for my mother who wanted an "adult" comic book, Calvin and Hobbes would probably fit the bill, in that "Reads the paper every morning for the nostalgia of the funnies" sort of way.

If I were shopping for my friends (most of whom are now either approaching or comfortably into their 40s, but mom still expresses disinterest in having them at family functions because "I don't have anything to say to those kids...") any of the ones you listed would be good choices.

This is why I use distinctly different wrapping paper for family and friends. :)

[ciunas-alainn.livejournal.com]

Coming home to read this was one of my highlights of the day. No, I'm not sick (well, maybe a little. heh.), nor do I need to get...ahem...a life. I just LOVE reading your journal this time of year. *whips out pompoms and belts a hurrah! for more*

How do you do it? How are you able to keep a straight face with these people?