Hi, my name is Aaron F and I love comic books.
This is an introduction I have used many times in my life, although sadly it has yet to yield the desired result: to make friends. Usually it is met with a pursed-lipped nod, an awkwardly-retracted handshake, or in some cases an "oh... how... quaint."
Comic books have always been a love of my life, at least as far back as I can remember. One of my earliest memories is of me, around 2 or 3 years old, sitting on my grandmother's lap watching Batman in theatres and being traumatized by watching the Joker's mangled body on the streets of Gotham, his laughter still echoing in the distance.
Oh wait, that memory sucked.
It wasn't until I was older - old enough to know better - that my love affair with comic books became something of an obsession. Perhaps it was the completist in me, but I had to read everything. I tell you, during this period of my life (most of highschool, that is), I read a ton of crap. But I also read a ton of masterpieces.
Unfortunately, at this point my goal to become the Ultimate Comicbook Master had led me down a very solitary path. Try as I might, I was unable to effectively convey the transcendent joy comic books gave me ("I swear, comics are awesome! You should totally read this issue, it's my fav-DON'T FUCKING TOUCH IT!"). Even at the comic book store where I worked, the owner's interest in comics was no longer aesthetic (having admittedly not read one in several years).
Since moving to Windsor, however, I have found a few fellow enthusiasts. Also, I know that there are still more of you out there on the internet (for some reason the internet and geekdom go hand in hand). So hopefully the path I've been treading will reveal itself to be hardly as lonely as it originally appeared.
Oh, and for those wondering: the exclamation of "Ut!" in the title of this post is a reference to ONE of my favourite super-heroes, the Flaming Carrot (image from the official site). For those of you who enjoy surrealist humour, I can't recommend this title highly enough (The Mystery Men? Yeah, they debuted here). The fact that he never got his own cartoon series (to my knowledge) is criminal. Let's call it my pick of the week.Anyway, enough about me. Who the hell are you?
