Comments on: Why I Am Not A Fan… http://andrewhickey.info/2008/12/19/why-i-am-not-a-fan/ Thoughts on music, science, politics and comics. Mostly comics. Tue, 14 Feb 2012 08:49:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: You Damned Sadist! You’re Trying To Make Them Think! « Sci-Ence! Justice Leak! http://andrewhickey.info/2008/12/19/why-i-am-not-a-fan/comment-page-1/#comment-1812 Thu, 16 Apr 2009 20:40:07 +0000 http://andrewhickey.info/?p=305#comment-1812 [...] many people in ‘fandom’ (a group of which I emphatically do not count myself a member ) have real trouble with this. If someone points out, say, that in Star Wars how heroic a character [...]

]]> By: Jennie http://andrewhickey.info/2008/12/19/why-i-am-not-a-fan/comment-page-1/#comment-517 Fri, 19 Dec 2008 23:13:58 +0000 http://andrewhickey.info/?p=305#comment-517 * snuggles *

Thank you for this.

]]> By: Andrew Hickey http://andrewhickey.info/2008/12/19/why-i-am-not-a-fan/comment-page-1/#comment-516 Fri, 19 Dec 2008 21:51:31 +0000 http://andrewhickey.info/?p=305#comment-516 Looking forward to reading that.
And I don’t even need a decent excuse – I’ll quite happily read mediocre, competent Superman or Green Lantern or Flash comics. I just won’t pretend they’re anything other than mediocre, and sadly there are very few superhero comics right now that *even* rise to the mediocre…

]]> By: Bots'wana Beast http://andrewhickey.info/2008/12/19/why-i-am-not-a-fan/comment-page-1/#comment-515 Fri, 19 Dec 2008 21:26:59 +0000 http://andrewhickey.info/?p=305#comment-515 I’m actually interviewing pillock just now – should be up at the weekend – and, yeah, my position is fannish to the extent I’ll take any decent excuse, be it Jason Aaron, Matt Fraction, JHW3, Quitely, to read corporate-owned superheroes, many of whom I do have an abiding childhood affection for. But yeah, Ed Beans.

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