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Got some articles from April Yap on comics today and I've been looking through them to see what I could use. Of course, there would be stuff that would pique our interest and others that well...I wouldn't waste money on to be copied for my personal use, to put it mildly.

Looking at all those materials reminded me why I've stopped looking in old magazines and journals in the library in the first place. Why?
Because most local articles just tend to repeat themselves. It's as if they all have one ultimate source of information for their articles and they have nothing new to add. And I think I know which article is The Source.
There's also the occasional comics-as-corruptor-of-the-nation's-youth-type of article.
And then there are a number of inane gush-o-ramas.

Of course there are exceptions, but generally...

This is my pet peeve for today.

In Edwin Sallan's Fan Boy column in the Manila Times dated 3 March 1995, he says: "Comic book fans nowadays are commonly referred to as Fan Boys, thus this column's title. I know, I know. The term is not exactly gender sensitive but then again, a large percentage of comic collectors are male. Oh well, female comic collectors can always call themselves Fan Girls."

In the same column in which the topic is Comics Collection 101, he gives examples of titles which for him constitute a good read and he divides them into the following uh..genres(?):
HUMOR: Archie series, The Simpsons, etc.
VIGILANTE SUPERHEROES: Batman, The Punisher, Spiderman
SUPERPOWERED HEROES: Superman, Green Lantern, Flash, Wonder Woman
TEAM HEROES: X-Men, Wild C.A.T.S., Justice League
TEENAGE SUPERHEROES: Legion of Superheroes, Gen13, GenerationX
HEROES ON THE EDGE: Lobo, Wolverine, Incredible Hulk, Spawn


We got a long way to go.