What's Your Geek?
He’s not evil. He’s too happy to be evil
Pyro was one of my first connections to the world of comic books. When, as a child, I saw the cover of X-Force, Vol. 1 #5 I understood that Pyro was a villain. The cover showcases The Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, led by Toad. Say what you will about Rob Liefeld’s art (are feet really that important?), but I knew immediately that no one on that cover was a super-hero.
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I started collecting comic books at the age of 6 and abruptly stopped at the age of 12, starting again at the age of 22 (I call those years in between the “Dark Ages”). When I say collecting, I don’t mean I was simply buying newly released books every week. I spent most of my younger years finding issues of specific titles I had missed, as well as issues containing some of my favorite characters. While I’ve also been heavily into playing video games for the majority of my life (You can tell by how good I am at almost every classic Mega Man game, and those are not easy!), I’ve always considered myself a comic book nerd first.
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Like discovering treasure on a remote island
The Avengers. The X-Men. Spider-Man. Batman. Superman. The masses love them, and rightfully so. If any of them were two-dimensional campy annoyances (which sometimes they were…I’m looking right at you, Adam West), they couldn’t possibly have stood the test of time as they have. Millions upon millions of people love these decades-old characters, so much so that a mighty few have poured massive amounts of money into making even more massive amounts of money by turning these characters into film franchises.
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