* <<F3H.1358>> Comics culture

I'm sure smoking marijuana is delightufl.  I wouldn't know, I've
never had the stuff.

One of the reasons I've never tried it is that you don't just smoke
marijuana in the same way that you just eat a sandwich or just watch
the news.  There's an entire culture around marijuana, and you have
to have contact with that culture in order to be a casual user.  I
find marijuana culture irritating, and wholly incongruous with my
personality.

One of the reasons I don't follow comics anymore is because there's
an entire culture around comics, and I find that culture...
irritating.  I used to be part of that culture, I suppose.  When I
was 13, comics were the most important thing in the world.  I read
every issue of Wizard magazine, for Christ's sake.  I was on-board.

Nowadays?  Comics culture is like a swarm of flies around a cake.
The cake might be tasty; it might not -- I'm not going to bother
finding out because I don't want to have to swat flies to get at it.

I read The Comics Journal sometimes.  My favourite feature is Tucker
Stone's Comics of The Weak column, because Tucker Stone seems to find
comics culture just as irritating as I do.

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