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I_Abibde posted...

I mentioned in a different topic that I stopped reading new comics after my last subscription expired back in 2014, but I still go retro from time to time.

I can't recall whether I've ever had a subscription (my brother was a GL guy for a while), although I had hit up comic stores at one point. I haven't found the traditional comic book format all that appealing, but I'll still enjoy them when they're put in a TPB. Granted, I'm not sure anything has been done in the last five years or so that interests me all that much. (Although if you go ten years out, there were a few things that piqued my interest -- like the Forever Evil storyline and the Shazam relaunch.)

I_Abibde posted... And I count manga as a separate hobby.

It's weird, isn't it? In principle, it should all be the same, but for whatever reason everybody (myself included) views it as some separate thing. There's not much precedent for it with other media. For instance, j-horror is still seen as being a part of horror. When people think of musicals, they don't necessarily balk when Bollywood comes up. But I'll be reading a superhero manga or webtoon and I'll view it as something fundamentally different.

I_Abibde posted...

Big subject of my geekery as of late: Got back into Magic: The Gathering. This might be a mistake, but the wife and I are both playing Commander and having a good time. Getting a play group lined up, too.

While I loved MtG, I just can't see myself ever getting back into it. Besides some of the weird design changes and the directional shift, I kinda got spoiled by the YGO video games and I'm not sure I could ever get used to the idea of purchasing cards again. If WotC ever released MtG games akin to what... whoever did with the YGO games, I could totally get into those because it'd be fun to experiment with decks and get the same experience without the cost and, quite frankly, storage & management issues.

Granted, I guess the other side of it is that I haven't had a local group in years... or a local group for a lot of my geekery (although a few geek friends kept bugging me to join their p&p rpg stuff, which doesn't really interest me in the least). Most of my friends these days are... I don't to say muggles, but honestly we still don't a better work for non-geeks (and, although some of them enjoy sports, I wouldn't exactly call them jocks).

My brother apparently went geek again. I knew that he'd occasionally been reading fantasy novels, but apparently he went hardcore into audiobooks (which he listens to on the road, while out walking, and even while going to sleep). Back around Thanksgiving, I asked him how much he know about Brandon Sanderson and I think he wasn't even familiar with the name (he recognized the Wheel of Time, which he hadn't read). Then when he stopped by in December, he's already gone through a bunch of his books and a few months ago he was going into a long discussion about alomancy as a magical system.

Meanwhile I wound up reading some of Sanderson's prose and I just wasn't feeling it. And, on the subject of things not doing it for me, I've decided to go through my library to see what I probably won't ever read. It started when I got one paragraph into The Hero and the Crown (which I think I just grabbed at a library book sale when filling a bag) and I just couldn't imagine reading the rest. I think I probably have a lot of titles like that in my library.

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