Tuesday, July 15, 2008

"You fuckers think just because a guy reads comics he can't start some shit?"

Although I am not a comic junkie (except for the new Buffy series), I can understand the draw. There's an aesthetic about it that my inner geek loves. And I'm probably just a few clicks away from comic geek: fantasy geek. Yep, I admit it: I love the fantasy stuff. Scorn me if you will, but Conan, The Wheel of Time (before it dragged on and on), unicorns, fairies, RennFaires, the whole bit. I know. Loser.

In college I worked at the best damn video rental place on the planet. Well, in our town anyway. We had an impressive cult section, truly terrible horror films, and a porn room. To date, it's been my favorite job. My boss at the video store was a total comic geek. He went to the local comic shop every week on Thursdays to get his stash. He's the one who introduced me to Vampire Hunter D, which led me down the rather embarrassing but wonderful path of anime and hentai.

Today's blogger reminds me of my old boss at the video store: geeky, funny, self-deprecating, horny, and not getting laid. Ever.

The blog design wouldn't be terrible if it weren't the three-column blog of doom, with gadgetry coming out its ass and way, way too much going on. Get rid of all the clutter and crap and scale it down to two columns. But I do like the tabs, especially his description of the various parts of his blog. And there are ads. Goddamn motherfucking ads. He also has us click to read more. I understand using it if there are lots of images to load, but otherwise, hate it.

Otherwise, I kinda like this blog. I know. Weird. But Baddie is self-deprecating and funny-ish. I chuckled, even. He doesn't take himself too seriously, and he's not a bad writer. He owns his geekitude, and I guess I just have a soft spot for that.

I could relate to the Comics I'd Like to Fuck post. Don't judge me. Gaston was hot. He mentions vagina dentata and likes Gaiman and Whedon, so he's pretty much ok in my book. Oh, there are some "huh?" moments because of the whole I'm not Filipino thing, but there was no Tagalog overload.

Overall, I found Baddie to be not at all bad but in fact quite charming. He knows who he is, and he's unpretentious and genuine and silly and really pretty funny.

He lies, though. There are shockingly few unicorns.





I considered giving you an extra half a star, but I couldn't bring myself to do it based on your cluttered and ad-infested design. And the lack of unicorns.

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