Comments on: Happy Free Comic Book Day! http://crookedtimber.org/2009/05/02/happy-free-comic-book-day/ Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:20:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: e julius drivingstorm http://crookedtimber.org/2009/05/02/happy-free-comic-book-day/comment-page-1/#comment-274271 e julius drivingstorm Sat, 02 May 2009 17:52:41 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/?p=10961#comment-274271 Now that's <i>Change</i> we can believe in. Now that’s Change we can believe in.

]]> By: John Holbo http://crookedtimber.org/2009/05/02/happy-free-comic-book-day/comment-page-1/#comment-274266 John Holbo Sat, 02 May 2009 17:14:26 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/?p=10961#comment-274266 Oh, man, if you call Cerebus 'Cerberus' the comic book god store owner really WILL smite you. But point taken. The thing is to remember is that once Man frolicked in a happier pagan time, when every tree and babbling brook, every slightly notable medium-sized rock - if not every last blade of grass - had its own patron god or spirit. This is a clue to the pagan godliness of the comic book store guy. Heidegger writes about as Komicszuhandigkeit. The ready-to-handness of comics. Comics 'showing up'. For free, for example. This is what makes the comic story guy a kind of 'god', if you will. Oh, man, if you call Cerebus ‘Cerberus’ the comic book god store owner really WILL smite you.

But point taken.

The thing is to remember is that once Man frolicked in a happier pagan time, when every tree and babbling brook, every slightly notable medium-sized rock – if not every last blade of grass – had its own patron god or spirit. This is a clue to the pagan godliness of the comic book store guy. Heidegger writes about as Komicszuhandigkeit. The ready-to-handness of comics. Comics ‘showing up’. For free, for example. This is what makes the comic story guy a kind of ‘god’, if you will.

]]> By: Adam Kotsko http://crookedtimber.org/2009/05/02/happy-free-comic-book-day/comment-page-1/#comment-274265 Adam Kotsko Sat, 02 May 2009 17:03:14 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/?p=10961#comment-274265 A friend of mine who doesn't normally read comic books took advantage of this last year and was creeped out by the guy who seemed to view the comic book store owner as a kind of God and who declared, in that special nerdy nasally voice, "I thought about starting <i>Cerberus</i>, but I don't think I'm ready for the lifestyle change." Still, the fact remains that I live two blocks from a participating location. A friend of mine who doesn’t normally read comic books took advantage of this last year and was creeped out by the guy who seemed to view the comic book store owner as a kind of God and who declared, in that special nerdy nasally voice, “I thought about starting Cerberus, but I don’t think I’m ready for the lifestyle change.”

Still, the fact remains that I live two blocks from a participating location.

]]> By: Barry Freed http://crookedtimber.org/2009/05/02/happy-free-comic-book-day/comment-page-1/#comment-274263 Barry Freed Sat, 02 May 2009 16:07:17 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/?p=10961#comment-274263 And here am I stuck out in the boonies with no car on Free Comic Day. Curses! Foiled again! And here am I stuck out in the boonies with no car on Free Comic Day. Curses! Foiled again!

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