So why do comics get the bad rap?

The first essay about “Why Comics?” got just too daggone long, so I broke it down into 2 parts (a la “Kill Bill” *chuckle*). But after this I’ve got to knock it off with this pseudo-scholarly junk. I can’t have people thinking I take myself too seriously. J Here we go – same song, different verse….

So why do comics get the bad rap? (Alternately titled: Why I feel sorry for others who think they are too good to pick up a comic book *smile*.) I think there are a couple …

We move into our brand new house

Like I said in the intro for today’s entry,

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So Why Comics?

If someone put me in a line-up & asked you to pick out the comic book reader – I doubt you’d choose me first.

I mean c’mon…pick the gal in her 30’s in sling-backs & Ann Taylor? Choose the intellectual (look I said that with a straight face *giggle*) mother of two with the degree & the Dilbert-esque corporate career? Nah – it’s the big Goth girl or the little geek-guy – not main-stream-middle-class-church-going-little ol’ me, right?

And you are asking now, “What does this have to do with anything?” For years, …

Esystems moves into Stutz building downtown

Like I mentioned on the front page, the Stutz building has all sorts of graphic studios inside. It is it’s own community and the building has such character. Originally home to the Stutz, which was manufactured here in the early 30’s, the building is still littered with the cars and even has it’s own museum. In the early 90’s Turner John management bought the property and

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Rose Bowl Party – Michigan vs. Texas

It was a tough game, with both teams playing good at times, and not at others and the lead flipping back and forth. But in the end, by not scoring first and going hard from the beginning, Michigan lost in the final seconds on a field goal, 38-37.

In the first photo, Sarah is playing with a little “play” chainsaw that actually makes the

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Ladder 49 (2004)

I am not sure what I really thought of this movie. It stars John Travolta and he does an excellent job like usual, but it also has Joaquin Phoenix who I haven’t ever really liked in any movie I have seen him in. He was pretty strong in this movie, but there was something else about the movie that buggs me.

Maybe it is the fact that any movie that deals heavily with

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Meet the Fockers (2004)

I went to see this movie primarily because of Sarah’s parents. I had seen Meet the Parents and didn’t see what the big deal was. I don’t really like painful movies, where the main character goes through some major struggle just for trying to be the good guy. But Sarah’s parents laugh their heads at Meet the Parents, where usually they are pretty contained, or asleep at any other movie.

So over Christmas

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