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 Stuf-Warren Ellis' Planetary

The film that no one will get right, but everyone would love to see by ash-elquilin

Planetary Or Oh, to Walk through pop culture’s silent pandemonium…

DISCLAIMER: The following article contains a lot of references to comic book history and nerd stuff that aren’t adequately explained. If you’re having trouble following, it’s because the nature of the reviewed material was intended for that exact purpose.

It is said that the very nature of success is enough to corrupt a man. It’s not unusual for people with too much money on their hands to spend huge sums on ridiculously overpriced luxuries 

Like, say, ornate hand-carved and heavily engraved butt-plugs.

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What I think About Stuff-Transmetropolitan

 

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Transmetropolitan or Comic Books that Must survive the Apocalypse, Part 2

Once upon a time, a man who was wise in the ways of science fiction (but little else) told me:

“Science fiction is, essentially, sociopolitical satire”.

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