: About Me

My passion is ...

volleyball, literature, dreaming about traveling abroad

I know too much about ...

students

My parents always told me ...

get eye glasses!

My childhood ambition ...

own every DC comic book...and the shop as well

My favorite memory ...

my brother's incontinence when we were growing up

Why I write ...

I'm too silly to keep it bottled up.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Steinbeck and The Great Upheaval/Top Chef/my neighbors

My first job ...

stockboy at a supermarket

My best moment ...

saving a volleyball class on life support, giving away things I still want to people who want them more

My inspiration ...

Lisa Simpson, Michael Palin, James Burke, Mom and Dad

Arts & Humanities > Comic Books & Graphic Novels Comic books: Marvel Universe versus the DC Universe

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People who are in love with everything Marvel were teenagers in the 1960's or 1980's. They came on board with the emergence of Stan Lee and Jack Kirby or the break out popularity of the X - Men. They came to these stories directly through the comic books themselves. Therefore they want a universe that is simple, serialized, filled with the concerns they had as teens: peer pressure and puberty and escaping from everyday life. These are all temporary subjects so that's how they view their comics. They want and receive a universe where everything stays stable for about six to eight years and ...

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