A New Renaissance

[08 Jul 2006 | Saturday] 

I guess a bit of history belongs here. Let me just start by saying that my parent's relationships were never the most stable ones in the world. My mother divorced when I was very young. We were on our own for some time but then came the Mundals. They were a very read-to-serve family like us with their father Tor, sons Jay and Jeff, and daughter Jill. Sure good and bad things came out of our time together, but one thing that really stuck was an appreciation of comic books. Back then, it was all about the spandex-clad, big gun, big tit, symbol on the chest lot who saved the world from evil on a day to day basis. I stayed with that shit for years, reading the same lifeless stories featuring the same grossly misproportioned individuals doing the same ludicous shit. I even thought I would go into penciling one day. I loved it. Then I started writing and everything else.... well.... let's wait for everything else to fall into place first, but you get my meaning. I say all of this mostly because comic books have hooked me once again. I didn't thin they would. Hell, I'd all but givn up on them. It was over, as far as I was concerned. Then, wouldn't you know it.... Sin City.... Top 10.... Preacher.... Fuck, just about everything Vertigo.... it's insane, how adult these books can get. It's gooten to the point where I don't even want to see a super power referenced. I just want a story about people. For instance, the book I'm reading now is just about this girl dealing with her father's apparent suicide and how his closeted homosexuality reflects her own life. Which bring me to another topic. This girl in said comic dates a writer, or someone at least into the english language. In several panels they make love on a bed littered with books, reading various passages here and there, discovering the hidden meanings (pornographic overtones in James and the Giant Peach, political roots of Christopher Robbins in Winnie the Pooh).  That was probably  just  the hottest thing I'd ever seen to date. Do yourself a favor and read the book.