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My cousin's kid called my old comics 'boring' and it made me think
I was at a family thing last month and my 12 year old nephew was looking at my long boxes. He pulled out a classic X-Men issue from the 80s, flipped through it, and just said 'this is boring, where are the explosions?' He was comparing it to the movies, obviously. It hit me that for him, being a comic fan means something totally different. It's about the big screen stuff first, and the books are maybe a side thing, if at all. For me, the comics were the whole world. I spent hours in my room in Sacramento just reading them, no movie needed. It's not that his way is wrong, it's just different. Made me realize our little community isn't one thing anymore. How do you even talk about the source material with someone who thinks the real story started with Iron Man 1?
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reed.jana5mo ago
My neighbor's kid asked me why my old vinyl records don't have a skip button. It's the same thing, the original object is just a weird artifact to them. The real story starts with the streaming playlist.
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jenkins.elizabeth5mo ago
That story from @reed.jana is so real. My niece found a Walkman and asked where the Bluetooth was. Tried to explain mix tapes, how you'd sit by the radio waiting for a song to record it. The whole idea of a physical object holding a specific set of songs, in a fixed order, just doesn't compute now. It's all just a cloud to them.
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rodriguez.mia5mo ago
Nah, I miss having something real to hold.
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