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Post by zryson on Sept 4, 2014 22:39:53 GMT -5
Just listening to music. One of the tracks is Fleetwood Mac Little Lies. When I listen to this song I often think of childhood. The lies the adults clung to "Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies," really sums up the situation. I also love the line "Close your eyes." I often would when adults were arguing. When people were abusive.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Sept 4, 2014 23:07:25 GMT -5
I like Mama Told Me Not To Come cause my mother was very protective of me engaging in all the things described in that song.
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Post by the4thpip on Sept 5, 2014 2:43:28 GMT -5
Today, a student came up to me to talk comics. It's pretty evident from my classroom decorating that I'm into the vintage stuff so, attempting to engage me in a conversation about this, he led with, "I love old comics. I even have the old Spawn issues." Ouch. A for effort, though. Heh. When I was working in my LCS as a student, a 10 year old kid once asked if his "really old comic book" was worth anything. It was an issue of Micky Maus from the late 80s, when the series sold a million copies in Germany every week and you could wallpaper Cologne central station with worthless back issues...
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Post by shaxper on Sept 5, 2014 5:01:55 GMT -5
Today, a student came up to me to talk comics. It's pretty evident from my classroom decorating that I'm into the vintage stuff so, attempting to engage me in a conversation about this, he led with, "I love old comics. I even have the old Spawn issues." Ouch. A for effort, though. Let's put it in perspective though...Spawn started before anyone in high school was born, and the student talking about Spawn as "old" would be the equivalent of me talking about Marvel split books when I was in high school, as they were as old then as Spawn in now. It's all a matter of perspective with time. Just remember for a high school student, 4 years represents 1/4 of their entire life experience at the time, while for someone my age , it's only 1/11th, so it's an entirely different magnitude of perspective. -M Oh, it's not that he was wrong to call it old. It's more that 1) it made ME feel old, and 2) Todd f---ing McFarlane is the pinnacle of his collection.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 5, 2014 5:07:54 GMT -5
Let's put it in perspective though...Spawn started before anyone in high school was born, and the student talking about Spawn as "old" would be the equivalent of me talking about Marvel split books when I was in high school, as they were as old then as Spawn in now. It's all a matter of perspective with time. Just remember for a high school student, 4 years represents 1/4 of their entire life experience at the time, while for someone my age , it's only 1/11th, so it's an entirely different magnitude of perspective. -M Oh, it's not that he was wrong to call it old. It's more that 1) it made ME feel old, and 2) Todd f---ing McFarlane is the pinnacle of his collection. Well you are old not as old as me by far, but you know when your Logan's Run time is up or starting to come up, you are old and well, you know there are people who might consider Frank f---ing Robbins the pinnacle of their Bronze age stuff (somebody check on Dan B. his head might have exploded) because it came out before they were born, and you know one has no accounting for taste, so...I mean McFarlane still gets votes not only as the best Spidey-artist of all time but some even vote for him as best Batman artist (oops now Shax's head may have exploded-I am just leaving a trail of carnage with this post) of all time...he's young, he may encounter things that change his mind, heck some of us even bought Liefeld comics at some point in our lives, but we learned better..... -M
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Post by shaxper on Sept 5, 2014 5:10:56 GMT -5
he's young, he may encounter things that change his mind, heck some of us even bought Liefeld comics at some point in our lives, but we learned better..... -M I suppose it's up to me to save him from the void
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Post by Deleted on Sept 5, 2014 5:14:53 GMT -5
he's young, he may encounter things that change his mind, heck some of us even bought Liefeld comics at some point in our lives, but we learned better..... -M I suppose it's up to me to save him from the void With great power comes great responsibility.....and you are older now so prepare yourself to handle the shock if he hands back your Wolfman/Perez Titans run and goes meh I like Grayson as a secret agent better.... you know those things are rough on us older folks -M
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Post by zryson on Sept 5, 2014 5:51:19 GMT -5
I think in general, what is old is relative to the individual involved. And what their interests are, the way they define something? Its like when I talk with some people, their difference of old is something from the 1990s. Whereas I might say something different, perhaps from an earlier era.
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Post by the4thpip on Sept 5, 2014 7:10:10 GMT -5
I think in general, what is old is relative to the individual involved. And what their interests are, the way they define something? Its like when I talk with some people, their difference of old is something from the 1990s. Whereas I might say something different, perhaps from an earlier era. Maybe it's because comics never had a black & white era (outside of newspaper strips)? I know that I did not consider 60s movies really "old movies" in the 80s when they were in color.
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Post by zryson on Sept 5, 2014 7:23:09 GMT -5
Many overseas comics (which were reprints of American comics) were printed in black and white. Often the newsstands were crammed full of them.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 5, 2014 7:23:21 GMT -5
Oh, it's not that he was wrong to call it old. It's more that 1) it made ME feel old, and 2) Todd f---ing McFarlane is the pinnacle of his collection. Well you are old not as old as me by far, but you know when your Logan's Run time is up or starting to come up, you are old and well, you know there are people who might consider Frank f---ing Robbins the pinnacle of their Bronze age stuff (somebody check on Dan B. his head might have exploded) because it came out before they were born, and you know one has no accounting for taste, so...I mean McFarlane still gets votes not only as the best Spidey-artist of all time but some even vote for him as best Batman artist (oops now Shax's head may have exploded-I am just leaving a trail of carnage with this post) of all time...he's young, he may encounter things that change his mind, heck some of us even bought Liefeld comics at some point in our lives, but we learned better.....-M As ever, my general default position -- "People are stupid, & they should be shot" -- applies.
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Post by Pharozonk on Sept 5, 2014 8:11:02 GMT -5
Today, a student came up to me to talk comics. It's pretty evident from my classroom decorating that I'm into the vintage stuff so, attempting to engage me in a conversation about this, he led with, "I love old comics. I even have the old Spawn issues." Ouch. A for effort, though. You should have asked him what the rest of his collection had. If it had nothing but Liefeld books and Nu52 comics, then you should have taken swift action to give him detention for that afternoon.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Sept 5, 2014 9:21:22 GMT -5
As the oldest member member of CCF, I have great difficulties thinking anything fron the 70s or 80s as "old". Only stuff from the Eisenhower administration and back is truly old.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 5, 2014 9:31:20 GMT -5
Nothing with a cover price of at least 20 cents is old. Fifteen cents is probably stretching it.
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Post by Daryl on Sept 5, 2014 10:11:47 GMT -5
As a kid in the mid-80s reading comics, back issues with a cover price of about 25 cents or less just seemed exotic to me, and many of those issues would have been as little as 10 years old at the time. Ten year old comics now are all $2.99 and feel exactly the same to me as a comic produced this month.
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