Well thank GOD I have ravenface's okay on this. I don't know what I would have done otherwise. :-) --Van
On Jul 20, 1:43 pm, [email protected] wrote: > It is weird how a term no one was using, (for 100 years we just called them > comic books or comic book magazines), will suddenly become the "educated" way > to discuss something. I also dislike the term "pamphlets," but kids who > never owned any can view them from a distance and see them for the archaic > old-media format they are. Since single issues is how I bought them for > thirty years, I just saw them as comics and not as....product with a > product's name. I thought I was a dude buying comics, but they see it as a > "Male in Meatspace Transacting for Pamphlets" > > Another term like this is "blog" People who didn't keep an online journal > spread that one around, and then it was too late to fix it. What a gross and > reductive word it is. > > So, I think Van was just using a word he thought was up to date or what all > the kids were using. He's obviously an old-school comics guy, but is keeping > with the times. He's often very very wrong but I don't think he was > pretentious here. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Luke <[email protected]> > To: The Unique Geek <[email protected]> > Sent: Wed, Jul 20, 2011 1:55 am > Subject: [The Unique Geek] Re: Re DC new #1s giant hardcover coming > > I regretted posting that message after I did because I posted in anger > due to something else. Hence why I removed it. So my apologies. > > My vehement objection is due partly to my bad mood. > > It is also more attributed to the term being used as a perjorative by > a lot (like, A LOT) of comics fans online to deride buying individual > issues. The idea being that a "pamphlet" is disposable and without > value. Over at ComicGeekSpeak, for example, that's essentially a > codeword for "I buy in trades and if you don't you're a moron who is > killing our industry." > > As a side note, its not an accurate statement, at least not according > to our wonderful federal government. A "pamphlet" by the definition > of the Federal Depository Library Program is a monograph or what we > would call a one-shot. Anything which is published on some regular > basis is called a "periodical." (I spent nearly 3 years as a document > cataloger handling federal documents.) > > I wouldn't take anything I say as being representative of the opinions > or feelings of anyone else on this group let alone the group in > general. I don't know how much longer I'll be here anyway. > > So use whatever term you would like. I like the term "singles." I > liken it to buying trading cards back in the day as "singles" as > opposed to "sets." > > On Jul 20, 8:38 am, Van Allen Plexico <[email protected]> wrote: > > Topic: > > Luke <[email protected]> Jul 19 06:03AM -0700 ^ > > > > ...I much preferred buying > > > those TPBs to buying the individual pamphlet issues. > > >>Oh get over yourself. "Pamphlet," ugh. Do you want a latte with your > > > pretension?<< > > > I'm not sure I get your meaning here, Luke. Disrespectful tone, sure, but > meaning, not so much. > > > That's a term we've used for years on the Avengers group, to differentiate > between trade paperbacks/ hardcover collections of comics and individual > comics. > I prefer it to the more popular term, "floppies," but it's really all the > same-- > indicating a very short, thin book(let) with no actual stiff cover and few > pages. > > > If it's not welcome in this community, I won't use it again. > > > What is your apparently vehement objection to it? > > > --Van > > > Sent from my iPad > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The > Unique Geek" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek?hl=en.- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Unique Geek" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek?hl=en.
