If you’re reading this site, chances are that you’re a geek. And not just any geek. You are the King Geek of them all: the comic book geek.
You download podcasts of iFanboy even though you know you’ll never get around to reading everything mentioned on the show. You listen to Ookla The Mok unironically. You will put down good money for a Sinestro shirt despite the fact that it actually accentuates the profound curvature of your carb-filled belly. You rolled your eyes and sighed when you first heard the news that Marvel was “killing” Captain America. You hang around internet message boards debating the pros and cons of Frank Quitely’s artwork, then waiting patiently for someone to respond in an equally confrontational manner. Scratch that … you create photoshopped parodies of comic plots for fun… because nothing’s better than swapping words from the Mid-Niter.
You look down on self-proclaimed geeks who have no idea what “Ultimatum” is.
Posers.
When it comes to superhero humor, most webcomic writers settle for what I call “the bad comedian’s handbook.” Batman and Robin are gay, Aquaman is lame, Superman is a dick, blah blah blah blah blah. It’s not that these jokes can’t be done right, it’s just that they’ve been run so deep into the ground that we can expect someone to wreak revenge on the surfaceworlders. TV Funhouse pretty much closed the book on the traditional superhero jokes. Why’s everyone so eager to dig ‘em up again?
Us comic book geeks, we need the hard stuff. But not so obscure that we have to dig up our Marvel Handbooks and DC Who’s Who binders. This is where Let’s Be Friends Again comes in, a webcomic for readers who’ve already seen every Wonder Twin joke ever made and are clamoring for something new.
