Friday, September 10, 2004
Did I Major in Comic Books?
This post begins a number of short pieces about heroes. I am reading the 1980s classic "Crisis on Infinite Earths." The plot is about how the different parallel dimensions of the universe die, one by one, until there is only one single universe left. I will discuss more of this classic hokey plot line later.
This is one of the first times that I am reading super-hero comics after ten years of not reading them. In the mean time, I graduated from college with a degree in Classical Civilizations. I studied quite a bit about Greek and Roman mythology. Actually, there is no way that one can escape Greek or Roman mythology when one is studying their history and poetry.
What I realized was that the meat of Greco-Roman mythology is a lot like comic books that have too many words and no pictures. It’s fun. I had a lot of fun reading about dudes who married their moms, fathers who kill their daughters so that they can bring back the slut wife of his brother, and horny gods who rape virgins.
What a great major!
This is one of the first times that I am reading super-hero comics after ten years of not reading them. In the mean time, I graduated from college with a degree in Classical Civilizations. I studied quite a bit about Greek and Roman mythology. Actually, there is no way that one can escape Greek or Roman mythology when one is studying their history and poetry.
What I realized was that the meat of Greco-Roman mythology is a lot like comic books that have too many words and no pictures. It’s fun. I had a lot of fun reading about dudes who married their moms, fathers who kill their daughters so that they can bring back the slut wife of his brother, and horny gods who rape virgins.
What a great major!
