What I Think About Stuff-A primer to comic book nerddom

You’re about to start off on a wonderful journey…

A comic book primer Or Initiate’s guide to the cult of the OverMan

Not too long ago, I had the pleasure of friending Chris Gavaler, a nerd scientist extraordinaire and fellow spandex enthusiast. I also had the even greater pleasure of going through his blog, which focuses on the superhero mythos, ideal and trivia in ways my blog wishes it could.

But it’s gonna.

I had proposed a collaboration with Mr. Gavaler, which was held back due to personal matters on my behalf and will be thankfully completed in full in the near future (mostly because I hate letting the cool people I meet down).

So instead of the original collaborative article aiming to serve as a beginner’s primer to the DC and Marvel cosmology, what you’re going to get instead is (what I hope is going to be) a joint list of 

COMIC BOOKS YOU NEED TO READ IF YOU WANT TO GET INTO THE SUPERHERO GENRE

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What I Think About Stuff-Alan Moore's MiracleMan run

MiracleMan contemplating the universe by Exten

Alan Moore’s MiracleMan run Or You thought this was gonna be watchmen, didn’t you?

 

About a year ago, I had one of those long, soul-searching conversations with a friend

The kind that originates halfway through a bottle of Jack Daniel’s

And we were both talking about what kind of writers we’d like to be when we grow up. My friend chose wisely by picking ‘the successful kind of writer’. I, on the other hand, went for a more Frankensteinian approach.

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