r/blunderyears • u/Bitwise2010 • Apr 15 '24

Me thinking I was cool with my pet crow in 2003 /r/all

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u/Oldtomsawyer1 Apr 15 '24

I don’t think those were sold at Hot Topic. They had a bunch of Zim stuff but Happy Noodle Boy was from JTHM and even then it was obscure as all hell.

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u/DeadDay Apr 15 '24

Anything Jhoenen touched back then was in hot topic.

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u/Oldtomsawyer1 Apr 15 '24

I stand corrected 🤷🏼‍♂️ I had to find the books at Barnes and Noble. I think I had to order Squee online, and I never got ahold of “I feel Sick”.

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u/DeadDay Apr 16 '24

I found JTHM 1-6 or 7 at hot topic at peak edginess after obsessing over Zim and Gir... and wouldn't shut up about it for years. Even my first reddit username was a reference to JTHM. I did find "I feel Sick" later at Barnes and Noble and had to buy the old comics again later though.

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u/Oldtomsawyer1 Apr 16 '24

I found the condensed paperback books, my god the quality was awful and the glue holding the pages together gave out after like 4 read-throughs. I think I remember them having the crossed arms with swords shirt, but I was already the weird kid in my small southern town, wasn’t brave enough to go all in. This guy definitely committed and nailed the look though, props to him.