There is no danger to comics culture or the geek community, partly because the existence of those things is sort of ridiculous when you think about it for a second. I need to start more sentences like, “As a lifelong participant in television watching culture” and “We in the grocery-buying community….” Every time Chris Hardwick talks about Nerds like it’s his goddamn ethnicity, I lose another layer of tooth enamel to grinding. Honestly, isn’t killing the comic book community the best thing that could happen to it? What if we started acting like this thing we do is as normal and mundane as drinking Pepsi Cola? What if we fumigated the clubhouse, opened the blinds, and started welcoming in as many people as possible, without judging their intentions or checking their genitals?
