'So! To summarize: 1) We're geeks! 2) We're comic book geeks! 3) We're girlfriendless comic book geeks!! Something must be done!' () After the three geeks' brainstorming session fails to generate any good ideas, Koslowski breaks the fourth wall to begin a dialogue with Keith and offer dating tips. He calls together his two closest friends - Allen, who worships Stan Lee and speaks like a cast-member of THOR, and Jim, who worships and dresses like the Punisher - and explains the dilemma. The title geek, Keith, is an average comic book slob who one day realizes that something may be missing from his comic-centric life. HOW TO PICK UP GIRLS IF YOU'RE A COMIC BOOK GEEK is a mildly amusing handbook to dating.

Two recent examples of this self-mocking genre are found in the pages of Evan Dorkin's DORK and in the adventures of Rich Koslowki's three comic book geeks. Yet we can still accept and enjoy the occasional reality check or wake-up call. We can get entirely caught up in the world of comics, becoming grimly serious about the outcome of a battle between Superman and the Hulk. One of the great aspects of comic book collectors is our ability to make fun of ourselves. HOW TO PICK UP GIRLS IF YOU'RE A COMIC BOOK GEEK (3 Finger Prints) I've apparently taken a few too many kicks to the kranium, however, bekause this month it took a shoe horn, aksle grease, and dukt tape to kram a tenuous konnection into the following komik book reviews. Most months the theme for this kolumn is so obvious it just kind of kicks me in the kranium. ( Collect them all!)įrom the February 1998 edition with a theme of 'A Tenuous Konnection': #ThrowbackThursday - Back in the '90s, I used to write comic book reviews for the website of a now-defunct comic book retailer called Rockem Sockem Comics.

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