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Just out of curiousity, what is the reaction you get about your comics habit from your partner.  Do they understand it?  Do they encourage it?  Do they roll their eyes at it?

-walt

My boyfriend’s actually pretty cool about it. I’ve even gotten him to read Y the Last Man, Ex Machina, and Fables. So I guess the key is to recruit.

I don’t have a boyfriend on this plane of existence, but several of my other personalities do wonder why I’m wasting my time reading those things.  One of them says it in my mother’s voice, too, which is really annoying.  I’d yell at her to shut up, but people always stare at me when I do that, so I just mutter it under my breath and hope no one notices.

My BF is exactly the type of geek I am in every respect but comics.  He’s not really a comics reader, but he humors me when I start explaining Multiple Earths and the convoluted evolution of the Legion of Superheroes and says, “I think it’s adorable that you think I understand you right now.”  But I return the favor when he starts discussing the role of class in the industrial revolution works of Elizabeth Gaskell, and I’ll ask if it contains armored dirigibles.  The only thing I can think of that he’s read at my suggestion was Morrison’s X-Men, which he loved.  He’s read the scattered collection of Green Arrow, but mainly cause he thinks Kyle Rainer’s hot.  He’s a professional with a thin veneer of geek, while I’m all geek with no professionalism to speak of.

Active disinterest.  It’s sad, really.

Mine is cute…for once I found someone who thinks geekiness is sexy so that worked out. 

She’s read Y and I’m going to get her to read Ex Machina when I’m done w/ it.  She’s also expressed an interest in reading JSA and Birds of Prey amazingly.  She wants to see Gail at Wizard World and be able to chat with her too when we go get [dirty dirty word]-faced with her!!

Basically she’s proud of me and is happy to have partner who’s at least passionate about something.  Also at Wizard World she wants a t-shirt that states ‘I’m no a comic fan, but I’m married to one’.  I may have to get that made.

And her all time fav movie before I met her was Batman…keeper!!

I don’t think mine understands it, but he knows that Wednesday is Comic Book Day. He asks me what I pulled and leaves me be to read them. He was invited to go to NYCC, yet knew I was going to be all geek-crazed and decided not to go.

We watch BSG and HEROES. He is a sci-fi guy so I think he understands the passion I have for the genre. And he looks at the Super Underwear Perverts site and comments on the boys. So all in all, he’s ok with it.

Wow, Super Underwear Perverts… I hadn’t heard of that one.  Thanks!  :-)