EPISODE
3: The Return of the Addicts
ObiwayneK’s
journal,
February
8th,
2012:
Worm
carcass in the alley this morning, tire tread on its burnt stomach.
These book worms are afraid of me. I have seen their true colors.
Their streets are extended gutters and the gutters are full of blood.
When the drains finally scab over, all the vermin will drown. The
accumulated filth of all their failed pseudo intellectualism and
baseless arrogance will foam up about their waists and all the book
authors, worms and book w****s will look up and shout, “Save
us!” and
I'll look down and whisper, “No!”
(although
watching that recently posted watchmen parody makes me want to say “I
just farted”
).
They
had a choice, all of them. They could have followed in the footsteps
of good men like Alan
Moore
or Grant
Morrison.
Decent men who believed in creating the best possible reading
material for the public. Instead they followed the
trifling word slingers, who had nothing better than staid old plots
documented in dull fonts
and they didn’t realize that the trail led over the precipice until
it was too late. Don’t tell me that they didn’t have a choice.
Now these book worms stand at the brink of destruction by the
comic-addicts, staring down at that bloody hell. And in the face of
complete decimation all these intellectuals and wannabe smooth
talkers can’t think of anything to say.
11.
Age no bar:
Well this is what we addicts have achieved and it is something the
book worms would always dream of having, an ensemble of people with
absolutely no age bar. We addicts consist of people of all ages,
ranging from 5 to 92. I would be a complete a** if I denied the fact
that people in the age group 10-60 read books as well as comics,
because they do, but it’s the extremity age groups that add to the
gadget list on our bat-belt. It is a scientifically proven fact that
children understand and learn better by looking at more pictures and
little text. 
12.Periodic
and perpetual entertainment/enlightenment: Since
their very beginning, comic books have bought about a revolution by
re-invigorating the “periodicals”
culture with a single character having numerous issues, spin-offs,
alternate reality stories, trade paper-back novels, etc. based on it.
Just take Superman
for example; so much reading material has been created since his
modest inception in the 1940’s, enthralling readers for than 70
years and still creating magic today. Superman is just one character
in list of a zillion characters and concepts. On the other hand we
have books which have, what, ten or max twenty sequels/prequels,
spin-offs if at all? And even in the rarest case of extended book
series', they eventually end leaving behind a sort of void and a
thirst for more in their readers. Not to forget that these sequel
books usually take at least a year or more to come to the readers,
thus defeating the very purpose of periodic entertainment.
13.
The future: With
technology on the rise and the coming of new gadgets like the Amazon
Kindle, the I-pad and all sorts of tablets with their various e-book
softwares, the future of printed books seems bleak. And although it
seems the same phenomenon should affect comic books too, we all very
well know that comic book culture is not just about reading comic
books, but also collecting them. We think of our comic books as
treasures to be kept and enjoyed repeatedly over time, not just a
means of killing time.
14.
Faster reading speeds: Again,
this one is as obvious as the fact that no matter which villain, what
plot, what problems - Batman
would emerge victorious. Even if a comic book reader takes ample time
reading/looking at a single page, marveling at all the details of the
art work and analysing the writing, it would still be faster than
reading a dreadful page from a book with that awful smell and
monotonous font. Just compare reading an ‘A’ grade comic book
like Watchmen with 484 pages to some sh***y book with the same no. of
pages, one could easily finish the former in a couple of hours but
the latter would take days or even months to finish. In fact I can go
through the comic book again just to re-kindle details in my mind in
the plot or look at the artwork just shortly after I have finished it
- but to do the same with a book would be preposterous.
15.
THIS HAS TO ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT REASONS AS TO WHY WE ALWAYS
DID, DO AND WILL ALWAYS KICK BOOK-WORMS’ A**ES …………………………
WE
HAVE THE BATMAN
(KIDDING!!! See? we also have a better sense of humour!)
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