Reaction to read a comic in public day

Just a quickie reaction to all these ads I see for Read a Comic in Public day on thursday. This is one of those well meaning ideas that kind of irks me a bit because it suggests that comic book fans are still closeted people who won't read their comics in public. This is not true of at least myself, I read my comics (the trades anyway, I am less likely to bring individual issues, especially older single issues out of the house because they can get damaged so easily) in public all the time. At work, in restaurants, wherever. If I don't have a prose book on me that I'm reading through, then I have a stack of TPB's or HC's with me that I'm plowing through. Super hero, indie, Warren Ellis, Grant Morrison, Alan Moore, whoever.

Do you know why?

BECAUSE I DON'T CARE WHETHER OR NOT PEOPLE LIKE IT OR NOT!

I don't care whether people think I'm brilliant, or stupid, or whatever. I don't care about their prejudices or praise for my reading choices (though if they praise it more the better for the industry). I simply DON'T CARE. You shouldn't care either.

Read a Comic In Public Day? That should be every day people. Every day when you have a comic that your reading and you have the time and occasion to read it out in the wide world? Then go do it. Because if you're so ashamed of your habit and your reading choices that you won't do it, or that you have to be prompted with an event like this to do it? Well, congrats, you're a coward. You're a coward because you worry about the judgment of strangers and people who really and truly have no concept of what they're talking about when they look down on you.

Read your comics wherever you want. People don't like it? Forget 'em. Friends don't like it? Find new ones. Family don't like it? Disown 'em.

Stand up for your self and for what you enjoy. The End.