Saturday, November 20, 2010

NEW Comic Book Lingo

Batman reading in the BatCave by Gene Ha

Bleeding Off
[bled off]: –verb (used with a comic book series)
1. to leave or wean oneself off a series: He was bleeding off the X-Men for a few months.

Bulletproof : –adjective (used with a comic book series)
1. book sales are impervious to lateness:
Planetary was bulletproof.

Over-Publicized-Character (OPC) : –adjective (used with a comic book series)
1. when a character is in many titles: Wolverine was the most over-publicized-character in 2010.

Trade-Waiting: –verb (used with a comic book series)
1. buying the first issue of a series then waiting for the trade paperback: He was trade-waiting all of Grant Morrison's Batman books.

1 comment:

alec megibben said...

Yeah as a kid I often wondered, "How can Wolverine be lost in the arctic tundra, kidnapped by samurais in Japan, battling shape shifting sloths on the moon, and meeting Jubilee at an abandoned train station to share some fatherly advice, all in the same month."