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-Chronicles of Wormwood

Why, Mister Burrows! Thank you for the nightmares!

The Chronicles of Wormwood Or Blasphemy, done right.

When considering matters of faith, you should approach them with a certain degree of caution. Not because faith is something inalienable and unchangeable, immune to philosophical scrutiny, but because the religious crowd possesses a great number of zealots, who tend to view philosophical analysis on their religion as an offense.

The religious nerd is the most dangerous kind of nerd.

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