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Post by Deleted on May 1, 2014 13:45:33 GMT -5
found out I had a son I didn't know about Is he the source of your recent grandfatherhood? I wondered about that. |
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Post by Deleted on May 1, 2014 13:46:50 GMT -5
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Post by Nowhere Man on May 1, 2014 13:49:39 GMT -5
This is by far the most profound part of your post. I've long held the belief that the only accurate way to judge a man's character is to find out whether or no he hates The Eagles. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on May 1, 2014 13:49:43 GMT -5
found out I had a son I didn't know about Is he the source of your recent grandfatherhood? I wondered about that. Yes he is. He's 28 now. He was 15 when he came in to my life when the littlest one was just a baby. |
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Post by Deleted on May 1, 2014 13:55:15 GMT -5
Interesting. That happened with a former fellow editor of mine in Little Rock, who found out after contacting a college-era gf online (or maybe she did the contacting) that he had, I believe, an adult daughter he hadn't known about. (His two sons would've been in, I guess, their teens at the time.)
He wound up dying of some virulent form of hepatitis that he'd contracted from a transfusion or something. I guess the ending of that story could've been just a bit happier.
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Post by Aaron King on May 1, 2014 13:55:27 GMT -5
I've been on CBR since 2002 or 2003, I think. My handle used to be Ignatz Mouse, but I changed it to my real name a number of years back.
I'm 30. I live in Minneapolis, where I work in the closed captioning and subtitling industry. I'm also on the board and volunteer at a nonprofit, radical bookstore, and I do sales and fulfillment for 2D Cloud, a local comics publisher.
I've had comics in my life as far back as I can remember. I read a lot of contemporary stuff from Fantagraphics, D+Q, Image, some Marvel, and the occasional manga or European book now and then, but I also love diving through longboxes of back issues when I get the chance. Kirby, Toth, Kubert, Gerber, Goodwin, Haney, and Simonson are a few of my favorite classic comic folks.
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Post by SJNeal on May 1, 2014 13:57:21 GMT -5
I was SJNeal on CBR (still am, actually) but here I'm apparently sjneal. I mostly lurked on the old Classics forum, with a few exceptions. Most of those being shaxper's awesome reviews threads!
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Crimebuster
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Post by Crimebuster on May 1, 2014 14:01:21 GMT -5
I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that you guys can figure out what my real name is.
I'm a freelance writer. I started posting on CBR in 2009 during a period of several months where I was out of work. I decided to start my own comic book blog as an entry point to possibly getting some work writing about comics, and as part of the process, I figured I should network with the online comic community. That's also why I posted under my real name; on other forums that I joined before or after that period, I have various code names like the rest of you weirdos.
I never did get any paying work writing about comics, and once I started working again I stopped publishing my blog as well, but it did introduce me to the Classic Comics Forum, so it worked out in the end.
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Post by Cei-U! on May 1, 2014 14:04:36 GMT -5
A- hem!Cei-U! I summon the peaceful easy feeling! |
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Post by Deleted on May 1, 2014 14:07:10 GMT -5
I don't hate The Eagles, either.
On a somewhat related note, I have never knowingly listened to The Eagles.
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Post by ziza9 on May 1, 2014 14:08:46 GMT -5
At work, so I will keep this brief: My name is Guy. 42, Child of the Bronze Age. I was Ziza9 at CBR since 2010. I'm GDC3 over there now since the COIMB (Crisis On Infinite Message Boards) Used to be on the old Newsarama boards prior to that, mostly in the Art Group section. Live and breathe classic comics. Some of my all-times: Uncanny X-Men, MOKF, Micronauts, Power Man and Iron Fist, All Star Squadron, New Mutants, New Teen Titans, Batman and the Outsiders, Daredevil....this list could take up a few pages. Suffice to say I love me some classic (many "classic" in my own mind)comics. Glad to be here.
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Post by Deleted on May 1, 2014 14:09:08 GMT -5
A- hem!Cei-U! I summon the peaceful easy feeling! Let me amend my previous statement: What person with a functioning mind &/or pair of ears doesn't? |
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Post by Deleted on May 1, 2014 14:09:40 GMT -5
How heartwarming. My first double post. |
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Post by Phil Maurice on May 1, 2014 14:12:26 GMT -5
My username is a sort of quasi-mondegreen, the result of mis-hearing a snippet of Ozzy Osbourne's stage banter recalling a legendary East Coast venue as, "Does anybody remember ol' Phil Maurice? We used to get shit-faced every night, a few groupies, huh?" I embarrassed myself for years, asking people older than me if they could identify this man.
I'm 46, live in North Georgia, married since '98. My wife is a technician in the avionics field. I have twin daughters who work in the health care field (same hospital, same ward. Twins, whattaya gonna do?)
I do contract consulting work in a variety of industries (avionics, Big Pharma, Big Energy) in the realm of document control/technical writing. I'm fortunate to have gotten some use out of my English degree in my professional career.
I came to comics through the 1967 Spider-Man cartoon, which led to 5 year old me pestering my father for an actual Spider-Man comic book during a trip to Kresge. The book was Amazing Spider-Man #122. It was distinctly NOT like the cartoon. Nevertheless, I have been hooked ever since.
I have a respectable collection of books stretching back to 1940. Moderate professional success has allowed me to acquire as an adult quite a few books I never thought I'd own as a kid. I tend not to share too much about my comic spending with "civilians" in order to avoid "that look." This forum, in the five years I've been visiting, has always been much more understanding of such things. And while we may not always agree, it's abundantly clear that we all love comics. |
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Post by webhead68 on May 1, 2014 14:13:25 GMT -5
Hi - I was a long time lurker in the other forum. I enjoyed reading all the reviews and discussions. I don't buy a lot of floppies, but I am a bargain hunter for TPBs, GNs, etc and have 100s of those. Spend most of my time reading from my Showcase Presents & Marvel Essentials collections as well as the GIT discs. Just finished Powerman/Iron Fist V2 and I am currently reading the Tales of the Zombie Essential
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