NEVER Be Afraid To Ask Me A Question About Old/Obscure British Characters

 

 2013  is a long time ago now but I had no idea that I was the subject of a LOT of discussion on the Comic Book Plus forum. I won't name names for obvious reasons but I do recall someone was hitting me with question after question about obscure British comic heroes on Brit Comics.  There was no explanation and then the person vanished.

Last week I found out what was going on (hey, I don't visit comic forums and I'm old!!):

"I am currently playing Stump the Hooper over @ Britishcomics @ Yahoo. I need to come up with some really obscure British super hero or heroine types from the 1930's or 40's or earlier. Got any suggestions out there guys?"

The response he got was:

"if that's Terry Hooper, and it is, you've no chance.  He's close to encyclopaedic in his knowledge of British comics characters.  But, and remember, he could be reading this, you might want to try some from British storypapers.  We call them storypapers nowadays but when I was a wee boy, they were all "comics", whether it was illustrated stories or text strips or balloon strips."

Well, I never read forums as when I ask questions I rarely get a response or if I do it's "Well, if you don't know how would we?"

Anyway, the original poster followed up:

"Well that didn't work out too well. Seems I sort of teed Mr. Terry off. Big mistake on my part and a big embarrassment of myself. So much so that I resigned from his group in utter shame! My bad."

I have no recollection of how this person thinks he teed me off.  The thing is IF he had said "are you up for a challenge?" then yes. If he hit me with  question after question with no explanation I would wonder what was going on as I always answer any questions or mails and research can take a while. He should certainly NOT have resigned but just explained.

Finding old characters and informing people about them is what I try to do to keep the memories of the characters and creators alive (if very dusty with slight foxing).  I think the original poster stated that he showed me an image of a character and I then sent him an image of how the character looked originally rather than how he thought the character looked.

I do tend to be brief and to the point -the same as with work: get a job do it quickly then finish BUT I would never get angry at someone unless they were seeming to be trying to annoy me.   If it had just been mentioned what his intention was I would have been open to  a challenge.