I worked at a comic shop for 5 years. And while I've prided myself on not being the irritable comic shop guy during that time, there were a few customers that always would test my patients.
There was the reoccuring customer who would insist his copy of SuperMan #75 was extremely rare. There was the Buffy fan who would have me order numerous TV-themed T-Shirts and not pick up for months (sticking me with "Kolchak: The Night Stalker" apparel.) There was the overweight, "Yu-Gi-Oh" fan that would always try to explain the logistics of the cartoon to me. There was this one guy who would go on and on about "Smallville" (even though I would always remind him I never watched the show) only to have his conversation constantly deteriorate into how big Power Girl's tits are.
Unfortunately, the only reason stereotypes exist is because they are usually true. There were times when my shop was no exception.
There was this one guy who claimed he was a writer. To hear him tell it, he had gotten an episode of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" produced. Which could be valid (I think there was a time where quality submissions for sci-fi shows could get made) until he started getting into his diatribe on this character versus that character. The more animated and heated he'd become discussing the implausibilities of Thor vs. Darkseid or Hulk vs. SuperMan, the more damage he would do to his credibility.
I like a Superhero fight as much as the next man-child but I figured out in my teenage years that "dream matches" are just that. Dream matches. There is a whole legal and creatively limiting process to having two company's character clash. The end result will never satisfy. Not to mention there is something deeply geeky about the whole "versus" argument that I just won't allow myself to touch. In other words...who gives a #@c%?
So, I say all that to say...
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