I'm relatively a newbie in the comics world, and the fandom can be pretty cut throat and pretentious sometimes.

I hear you. I grew up on comics, from like, early eighties to about mid ninties. I left, and I've only been back a couple of years off and on (read the odd trade in my years of fallow, so I knew about Civil War, etc), and I've only really gotten intensely into comics (in terms of buying and collecting my own) in the last six months or so.

Yeah, the fandom can be catty, especially teh Marvel vs DC fights that people have.

You can only do you, you know?