The People’s Improv Theater’s weekly “Comic Book Club” show (which actually isn’t improv…) is getting good crowds and some serious press. Good for these guys!

The show, which celebrates its first anniversary Tuesday at 8 p.m., covers all things comic book, which these days also includes the worlds of video games, television and film. As that anonymous audience member put it, “It’s great to be in an atmosphere where you can sit and discuss these things without getting strange looks.”

Guests at the anniversary performance constitute a Who’s Who of the comic book industry. They include Ed Brubaker, the man who wrote the death of Captain America in March, and Brian Michael Bendis, who writes New Avengers and is masterminding Marvel’s latest blockbuster: Secret Invasion, a multi-title cross-over about aliens who may have been impersonating certain heroes for many years. Also on the schedule is Bill Hader, a cast member of “Saturday Night Live” and an avowed comic book fan. The show is officially sold out, but a limited number of $5 tickets will be for sale at the door.

Some weird regression to old school geekery in those first couple paragraphs though. So…people can’t admit they read comics now? What? Haven’t we moved beyond that?

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