"Kurt: Grown men reading stories of super muscly guys in tights and underwear flying around and stuff. That's just eerie and weird."
"Kurt: They're for kids!"
"Kurt: Ha! I don't think I am. Super guys in underwear fighting other guys in their underwear. That's not the kind of stuff I want to spend my down time reading, no offense."
Kurt: They're for kids!
Joe Mulvey: So Heath Ledger won an Oscar for essentially being in a kids’ movie last year?
Kurt: That's a movie.
Joe Mulvey: Right. It was a movie based on a comic book. With adult NON-children related themes. My point is that comics aren't just for kids. That's one of the reasons I do the interview to help change people's perceptions of what comics are.
Kurt: Do they still look the same?
Joe Mulvey: I don't get what you mean?
Kurt: They're small colored books with drawings right?
Joe Mulvey: You're simplifying them a bit. They are illustrated stories if that's what you mean.
Kurt: Right, drawn stories. That's what kids read.
Joe Mulvey: My point is that comics are more than Superman and Batman and guys in tights and capes fighting. They are stories about ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING. The variety of subject matter in comics is just like every other entertainment medium. So saying it's just stuff for kids or whatever else you were trying to say, is nuts.
Kurt: It's firetrucking pictures drawn on a page! What is that? Why would I look at that as a full grown adult? You read shit like that as a kid because you're learning. You move on, get past that stuff as you grow up.
Joe Mulvey: So reading comics is for immature people.
Kurt: Yeah. Yes pretty much. That's fine man, I'm not saying everyone's got to be the president or take stuff seriously all the time but for firetruck's sake, staring at pictures reading words in a bubble is kids shit. Show me where the firetruck there's any sort of maturity to that.
Joe Mulvey: Kurt, that's the method of storytelling in that medium. There's mature context IN THE WORD BALLONS. A kids book of nursery rhymes is written on a page the same way a Pulitzer Prize winning novel is. It's all in how you interpret it.
Kurt: Word ballons. Listen to yourself, does that sound like something a grown man should say. There's some really mature shit in the word balloons. Come on, Joe.
Joe Mulvey: You're incredible. Seriously. Look, take my challenge. The fifty-buck challenge. You have nothing to lose, besides your outdated and stubborn idea of what comics are.
oe Mulvey: Can I see your phone?
Kurt: Why?
Joe Mulvey: Just for a second, I'll give it right back I swear.
Kurt: (Gives me the phone)
Joe Mulvey: (Looking at the apps on his iPhone.) Ah, so you play Bejeweled and Tetris on here. None of that drops the weird vibe on you?
Kurt: Give me my phone. Don't try to change the subject.
Joe Mulvey: Dude, your playing Tetris. Not "The Smithsonian presents the most adult game in the history of the world"-version of Tetris. But Tetris. The game you played as a kid. And please enlighten me to the grand intellectual stimulation that is Bejeweled.
Kurt: Video games are different.
Joe Mulvey: But you play them?
Kurt: Yeah.
Joe Mulvey: No eerie vibe there? So video games don't get characterized as just for kids?
Kurt: Dude, video games are better than movies right now. Millions of adults play video games.
Joe Mulvey: Right but video games grew up as you were growing up, right? Mario Brothers is nothing compared to Modern Warfare, is it? That's my point about comics. Have you played the Batman game? Arkham City? It's won tons of awards, great reviews. That's not completely for kids.
Kurt: Yeah, well I'd much rather kick some ass as Batman in a game than read some still pictures of a guy in tights prancing on a rooftop.
Joe Mulvey: Okay Kurt, you're not going to cave, so I'll let it go. You're just not a fan of comics, no problem. I just seriously hope more people don't share your opinion.
People like this annoy me in way to can't imagine .
I found this quite entertaining and funny.
http://www.comicsbul...ant-read-comics
Here's some bits for it
"Kurt: Grown men reading stories of super muscly guys in tights and underwear flying around and stuff. That's just eerie and weird."
"Kurt: They're for kids!"
"Kurt: Ha! I don't think I am. Super guys in underwear fighting other guys in their underwear. That's not the kind of stuff I want to spend my down time reading, no offense."
Kurt: They're for kids!
Joe Mulvey: So Heath Ledger won an Oscar for essentially being in a kids’ movie last year?
Kurt: That's a movie.
Joe Mulvey: Right. It was a movie based on a comic book. With adult NON-children related themes. My point is that comics aren't just for kids. That's one of the reasons I do the interview to help change people's perceptions of what comics are.
Kurt: Do they still look the same?
Joe Mulvey: I don't get what you mean?
Kurt: They're small colored books with drawings right?
Joe Mulvey: You're simplifying them a bit. They are illustrated stories if that's what you mean.
Kurt: Right, drawn stories. That's what kids read.
Joe Mulvey: My point is that comics are more than Superman and Batman and guys in tights and capes fighting. They are stories about ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING. The variety of subject matter in comics is just like every other entertainment medium. So saying it's just stuff for kids or whatever else you were trying to say, is nuts.
Kurt: It's firetrucking pictures drawn on a page! What is that? Why would I look at that as a full grown adult? You read shit like that as a kid because you're learning. You move on, get past that stuff as you grow up.
Joe Mulvey: So reading comics is for immature people.
Kurt: Yeah. Yes pretty much. That's fine man, I'm not saying everyone's got to be the president or take stuff seriously all the time but for firetruck's sake, staring at pictures reading words in a bubble is kids shit. Show me where the firetruck there's any sort of maturity to that.
Joe Mulvey: Kurt, that's the method of storytelling in that medium. There's mature context IN THE WORD BALLONS. A kids book of nursery rhymes is written on a page the same way a Pulitzer Prize winning novel is. It's all in how you interpret it.
Kurt: Word ballons. Listen to yourself, does that sound like something a grown man should say. There's some really mature shit in the word balloons. Come on, Joe.
Joe Mulvey: You're incredible. Seriously. Look, take my challenge. The fifty-buck challenge. You have nothing to lose, besides your outdated and stubborn idea of what comics are.
oe Mulvey: Can I see your phone?
Kurt: Why?
Joe Mulvey: Just for a second, I'll give it right back I swear.
Kurt: (Gives me the phone)
Joe Mulvey: (Looking at the apps on his iPhone.) Ah, so you play Bejeweled and Tetris on here. None of that drops the weird vibe on you?
Kurt: Give me my phone. Don't try to change the subject.
Joe Mulvey: Dude, your playing Tetris. Not "The Smithsonian presents the most adult game in the history of the world"-version of Tetris. But Tetris. The game you played as a kid. And please enlighten me to the grand intellectual stimulation that is Bejeweled.
Kurt: Video games are different.
Joe Mulvey: But you play them?
Kurt: Yeah.
Joe Mulvey: No eerie vibe there? So video games don't get characterized as just for kids?
Kurt: Dude, video games are better than movies right now. Millions of adults play video games.
Joe Mulvey: Right but video games grew up as you were growing up, right? Mario Brothers is nothing compared to Modern Warfare, is it? That's my point about comics. Have you played the Batman game? Arkham City? It's won tons of awards, great reviews. That's not completely for kids.
Kurt: Yeah, well I'd much rather kick some ass as Batman in a game than read some still pictures of a guy in tights prancing on a rooftop.
Joe Mulvey: Okay Kurt, you're not going to cave, so I'll let it go. You're just not a fan of comics, no problem. I just seriously hope more people don't share your opinion.
People like this annoy me in way to can't imagine .