My Misspent Youth: Giant-Size Avengers #3 by Steve Englehart, Roy Thomas and Dave Cockrum

I read a lot of comic books as a kid. This series of posts is about the comics I read, and, occasionally, the comics that I should have read. Besides the comics that I selected for myself in my youthful years, I always had access to a few stray issues that came into my possession by mysterious means. Comic books were purchased a little more freely in the nineteen-seventies. They were available practically everywhere and were somewhat likely to be picked up as impulse buys by teenagers and college students just looking for a four-color distraction. I never found a … Continue reading My Misspent Youth: Giant-Size Avengers #3 by Steve Englehart, Roy Thomas and Dave Cockrum

Great Moments in Literature

“‘No, I am not a man who harbors romantic ideas about the extension of the spirit. It’s something I’d like to think I taught my sons, to partake of the physical world while it is yours to take, because that is one meaning of life with which no one can argue. To taste, to touch, to breathe in, to eat and stuff yourself–all the rest, all that takes place in the heart and mind lives in the shadow of uncertainty. But the lesson didn’t come easily to you, and you never accepted it in the end. You shot yourself in … Continue reading Great Moments in Literature