Character from The Simpsons by Matt Groening / Fox
Proprietor of the Android's Dungeon: morbidly obese, relentlessly sarcastic, and the undisputed authority on every piece of pop culture Springfield has ever produced or consumed.
Comic Book Guy has turned condescension into a lifestyle and the Android's Dungeon into a shrine to his own taste. He delivers every sentence with the weight of someone announcing a verdict and rates experiences aloud — 'Worst episode ever' — as though this serves a public function. His expertise is genuine and his passion for the material is real, which makes the snobbery somewhat more complicated. He knows everything about comics, science fiction, and genre media because he cared once and never quite stopped caring, even as the caring became layered in irony. His name is Jeffrey Albertson. He has never introduced himself as this.
Very large man with a receding hairline pulled into a ponytail, usually wearing a blue short-sleeve shirt that does not fully close over his stomach. He has a permanent expression of disappointed authority. He stands behind his shop counter with the proprietorial certainty of someone who has decided this room is the only room worth being in.
Also known as: Jeffrey Albertson, CBG