I still like Mad Magazine. I know it no longer publishes, but I’ve never thrown one out.
Although I’ve only ever bought it at the newsstand, I still have those I bought as a child for 35c (cheap!) and the ones I bought for $5.99 (still cheap!). And they’re fun to reread: MASHUGA, 201 Minutes of a Space Idiocy, All in the Family Fare, The Guru of Ours (with Liza Minelli and Ed Sullivan), Catch-All-22—still hold up today, if you know the source material. Plus Jack Rickard, Dave Berg, George Woodbridge (who was that girl in the long coat with the big round glasses that he always managed to work into his art?), Don Martin and his sound effects, Norman Mingo who did the definitive portrait of Alfred E. Neuman, and Bob Clarke, who nailed advertising parodies. Oh, and Al Jaffee’s Fold-In.
Yeah, I may be rereading stuff that I read when I was 9 years old. But it’s still fresh and funny to me.
I can identify very strongly with this, for sure. I don’t want to read twenty different series and keep track of a fragmented narrative, I just want to read a story.
I didn’t quit comics entirely, though. I just cut way back, and refocused on strictly standalone titles. Lumberjanes is great. I also liked D4VE. Stuff like that.
If the comics industry dies, it will be because you cannot understand Ultra Man No. 132 until you’ve read Universe 2: The Next Chapter nos. 3 through 38, and Amazing Girl numbers 48 through 61. Well, you can skip no. 61, where Amazing Girl’s secret identity is revealed to the newsdealer on the corner … Anyway, she picks it up in Issue 62, where she needs Ultra Man’s help, but he calls in Megaman, who you need to read from Megaman Issue no. 1 to understand. At least until Issue 12 … Blah-blah-blah, and no interest in buying all the issues necessary to understand it all.
Pfft. Give me those old Gold Key Yogi Bear, Fred Flintstone, Bugs Bunny, or Daffy Duck (or Harvey’s Richie Rich, Casper, or Baby Huey) comics. One to three stories per issue, no continuity, but funny and entertaining as hell, even now. Yes, I read those old comics, and yes, I am still entertained.
If the comics industry dies, it’s their own fault, for making things (a) superheroes only; and (b) too damn complicated.
At 63, I’m …
-still a horse-crazy 12yo girl
-as happy to flop down on the ground as sit in a chair
-prefer to be barefoot
-love to sit cross-legged (though my knees do have to remind me that we’re NOT actually 12 any more :/)
-get shy at parties and would prefer to go play with the dog or pet the cat
-want to climb trees
I play pinball everyday. That was a young guy thing when I was a young guy. It’s an old guy thing now that I’m an old guy.
It’s the same with comic books. They were for kids 50 years ago; now they cater to all ages and their most fervent fans now are those same people now in their 60s.
I love to read fairy-tales. My grandparents had an illustrated collection of Grimm stories I loved to read as a kid, and the fascination with fairy-tales never left me. The original “Kinder und Hausmärchen” by the brothers Grimm is still one of my favorite books, but I read fairy-tales from all over the world, the more obscure the better.
About twenty years ago, my D&D group all got into Warhammer. I really tried to get into it. It just isn’t for me.
For me, combat is usually the least interesting part of an RPG.
I cannot paint miniatures worth crap.
To compete in league events, you must use official miniatures. I understand the business model and the need to turn a profit. I just don’t like this.
To compete in league events, you must buy at least one new codex each year.
I also remember threads on the Dope when Games Workshop switched from using metal and whatever standard plastic they used before to a new, special plastic. After buying an army, one fan came home to find that the new special plastic melts if left in sunlight too long.
I am a HUGE fan of Talisman though. For the unfamiliar, it is a fantastic board game. Players play as various charecters (The Troll, The Ghoul, The Monk etc) they fight monsters to get gold and possibly magical items. the board is divided into four regions. The outermost region is the biggest and least dangerous. The next section smaller and more difficult. The next section is the finale section and is excedingly dangerous. The center of the board is The Crown Of Command. Essentially, if you can get to the Crown first and no other player is able to get their in a few turns to challeng you, you win.
I am not certain just what edition or mixture of editions I have. Mom got Talisman for me (Thanks Mom!) at a garage sale. It was complete. I think I have the ‘Age Of Dragons’ or "Attack Of Dragons’ expansion cards.
There were 3 optional expansion boards- The City. The Dungeon. The Time Warp. Sadly, I don’t have those.
The game was updated and reissued a few years ago. Everybody should rush right out and buy it.
I’m 68 years old. I’m addicted to old school cartoons, specifically, Tom and Jerry, Looney Tunes, Merrie Melodies and classic Disney. I have several bookmarks for websites which show these cartoons and I don’t think I’ve gone to sleep without watching one or two of them for years now.
That’s basically what I was going to say, except I’ve been watching the reboot of Animaniacs on Hulu, which they officially classify as a “kids’ show”.
That said, I think that there’s an argument to be made that shows like Animaniacs, classic Looney Tunes, etc. are really for all ages, not just kids. There are plenty of references that adults would get but would go over kids’ heads. And Animaniacs in particular I’m sure is targeting both kids who are new to the franchise and Millennials who are nostalgic for the original series.
The OP is slanted toward “things you did as a kid that you have continued to do,” but there’s one thing I do that is a now young person differentiator I wouldn’t have predicted: I watch way, way more YouTube than any other kind of TV.
Good call. I haven’t watched normal TV in a long time (literally approaching decades); and nowadays I usually either watch movies or YouTube, though I’m more likely to just listen to podcasts or audiobooks while I play a game or work.
I still like to build Legos.
I just won’t buy 'em, because 1) (relatively) expensive & 2) what the 'ell am I going to do after I build one; it’s not like I’m going to put in on the bookshelf in my bedroom like when I was a kid.
The Millenium Falcon is $850 & dimensions are 8" x 33" x 23". Do you have somewhere in your house to display something that big, even if you wanted to?
