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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jul 23, 2015 10:49:27 GMT -5
I use my real name. Heh! Heh! O.K., no I don't. I like the secret identity aspect associated with American comic books, though, even if my real name is no farther away than a click on the links below this post. I wanted a name that would be distinctive and suited to the comic-book world: adventurous-sounding but humorously self-deprecating. I also wanted it to be somehow related to the French-speaking world.. As for my avatar, it is a character created by my best friend in high school: instead of listening to the teacher, we'd draw each other in impossible, perilous and embarrassing situations. That's how he represented me, as a small cyclops with only one tooth. I have drawn myself like that ever since.  |
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Post by Cei-U! on Jul 23, 2015 10:53:26 GMT -5
Wait, so you AREN'T a small cyclops with only one tooth???
Cei-U!
I summon the bitter disappointment!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 23, 2015 11:53:52 GMT -5
Used my own name both on CBR & here till maybe a year ago, then realized that it wouldn't hurt to go with a handle instead, since every now & then I've been known to air views that might not be looked upon too kindly in the workplace (same reason I've been "gef the talking mongoose" on Baseball Think Factory since Day One, back around the time I discovered CBR). T. Rex's final album, Dandy in the Underworld (the title track was their next-to-last single), inspired the name. Not only are they probably my favorite band from the glam period right before punk, but also I've long felt a certain odd kinship with the band's leader, Marc Bolan, albeit for typically (for me) morbid reasons -- he died in a car crash the day before I turned 18.
It was either that, I guess, or "antichrist newsboy" (from a terrorist group in Tom DeHaven's Freaks' Amour, adapted -- actual comics content! -- competently by Dark Horse back in '92), which was my first email handle way back when.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jul 23, 2015 11:56:28 GMT -5
Wait, so you AREN'T a small cyclops with only one tooth??? Cei-U! I summon the bitter disappointment! In my defense, I did do my best to have my nose removed earlier this year... |
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Jul 23, 2015 16:12:42 GMT -5
I got my first job because of my internet activity. A library was impressed with my html skills in constructing an earlier website unrelated to comics. If my employers knew about my internet activity today, I think that would similarly work in my favor. Sure, my passions are dorky, but I like to think I'm well-written, thoughtful, scholarly, and (usually) diplomatic in my posts, whether here or on facebook. I also have a twitter account used JUST for education-related material. Some people use the anonymity of the internet as an excuse to be their worst possible selves. I've always seen the internet as an opportunity to be the best possible version of myself (though I don't always succeed at that  ) I think it's just like in life first impressions can make lasting impressions. But first impressions on the internet can be plucked from whatever you've said at anytime about anything. And I think that's unfair to judge someone as such. Even with coworkers I see everyday I don't share my social, political or religious views because it's not something to judge my job performance on. But if it's out there you won't know if you didn't get considered or got turned down if you got that far in the process. It's more a precautionary thing that paranoia. If it's not available in the consideration of the person I am than I can't be judged by it. And in a country increasingly using aspects of race, sexual preference of gender in most aspects of life to determine a person's validity I'd rather not share more than I need to. It's shocking enough the things people say to me cause I'm a white heterosexual male. If that's how they judge others imagine if I shattered the perception they're assuming about me. |
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Jul 23, 2015 16:16:16 GMT -5
It was either that, I guess, or "antichrist newsboy" (from a terrorist group in Tom DeHaven's Freaks' Amour, adapted -- actual comics content! -- competently by Dark Horse back in '92), which was my first email handle way back when. Id forgotten I had therealDr_Lecter for a hotmail account back until the early 00's before it got hacked. On discovering Thomas Harris' work I got kinda of obsessive.  |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 23, 2015 16:59:26 GMT -5
It didn't take long for me to realize that "antichrist newsboy" wasn't particularly, uh, distinguished-sounding. Not sure that "tubedisaster" (after a song by 2nd-generation British anarchopunks Flux of Pink Indians), which I went with for a couple of years after that, was a whole lot better ... That one's still my handle on eBay, where such things don't really matter.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Jul 23, 2015 17:41:41 GMT -5
Yeah thats why even if it hadn't been hacked I'd had to change it for professional reasons like job searches. Now that you mention eBay my 13 year old handle, trustnooneinasuit, is from too much X-Files. I guess I'd forgotten I've gone by more than this handle after all.
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Post by Icctrombone on Jul 23, 2015 17:57:31 GMT -5
I think it's just like in life first impressions can make lasting impressions. But first impressions on the internet can be plucked from whatever you've said at anytime about anything. And I think that's unfair to judge someone as such. Even with coworkers I see everyday I do share my social, political or religious views because it's not something to judge my job performance on. But if it's out there you won't know if you didn't get considered or got turned down if you got that far in the process. It's more a precautionary thing that paranoia. If it's not available in the consideration of the person I am than I can't be judged by it. And in a country increasingly using aspects of race, sexual preference of gender in most aspects of life to determine a person's validity I'd rather not share more than I need to. It's shocking enough the things people say to me cause I'm a white heterosexual male. If that's how they judge others imagine if I shattered the perception they're assuming about me. It's enough to know that you're a fellow Starlin/Warlock fan to get you in my top 10.  |
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Post by Prince Hal on Jul 23, 2015 18:18:41 GMT -5
It didn't take long for me to realize that "antichrist newsboy" wasn't particularly, uh, distinguished-sounding. Not sure that "tubedisaster" (after a song by 2nd-generation British anarchopunks Flux of Pink Indians), which I went with for a couple of years after that, was a whole lot better ... That one's still my handle on eBay, where such things don't really matter. I like antichrist newsboy myself. But then I am... different. |
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Post by Action Ace on Jul 23, 2015 20:42:49 GMT -5
I'm a Superman fan and a child of the 1970s. Several Superman writers tried to get the nickname of "The Action Ace" to stick, but it didn't last.
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Post by Action Ace on Jul 23, 2015 20:45:53 GMT -5
It didn't take long for me to realize that "antichrist newsboy" wasn't particularly, uh, distinguished-sounding. Not sure that "tubedisaster" (after a song by 2nd-generation British anarchopunks Flux of Pink Indians), which I went with for a couple of years after that, was a whole lot better ... That one's still my handle on eBay, where such things don't really matter. I like antichrist newsboy myself. But then I am... different. I also like "antichrist newsboy" as a username for him. |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jul 23, 2015 21:08:23 GMT -5
I'm a trombone player and I picked it up after 15 years to Play for the Lord Jesus Christ at international Christian Center church . There was a time that I wanted to change it to gn6196 but the CBR didn't let me so icctrombone is my handle forever more. I thought that meant 199 trombones by using Roman numerals |
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Post by wildfire2099 on Jul 23, 2015 21:50:19 GMT -5
This is a great idea for a thread! OK, so back in the dark, early days of the internet (say, 1993) I was in college, and MUDS were really cool. I was using 'Ravage' as my handle for most things then, (big shocker). Turned out it was awfully common, being a pretty vanilla action word as well as an awesome comic book character, who was actually in publication at the time. I scrambled around with stuff for a while (nothing I stuck with), until mid-1994, when a totally fell in love with a tabletop character I was using in the old version of Gammaworld. His name was Riva Wildfire (Riva for the land of the same name in one of the David Eddings books).. Wildfire because it popped into my head as a cool name for my mutated Wolf character. I hadn't read any silver age comics to speak of at the time, and had NO IDEA there was a Wildfire in comics (and I was reading Legion, too, just the three boot version, where Wildfire never really appeared). I started using it online (with the '2099' added in for uniqueness), and just never stopped. Funnily enough, back in the old days, 80% of the time people assumed 'Wildfire' was a girl... go figure. |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jul 23, 2015 21:59:00 GMT -5
Funnily enough, back in the old days, 80% of the time people assumed 'Wildfire' was a girl... go figure. 90 % of the people I knew thought it was a horse with a hit record |
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