The Briar Patch

I am not hipstering it up. Not trying to be a fan boy or anything like that but I gotta give the Xmen kudos for the huge impact they had on my life. NO not the deeper meaning of racism and segregation that Stan Lee had in mind but the fact they led to so much or smoothed the way for so much in my life. Let me start at the start. My babysitter in elementary oldest son had a comic collection. I would say I was 7 / 8 so about 88/89 when he introduced me to the Xmen. He had stacks of Classic Xmen so I got to learn the old stories. It was awesome! Or so I thought and it opened me up to comics. Sure I looked at some DC and the Avengers, Spidey, all the big titles but the X family was my fave. I was a nerd, and I grew up being that nerd. Then (IF you read my older blogs) I met Evil. I was 15 ish he was in his early 20s in 96 and we hit it off. He liked comics but told me to try some new ones, it didn't have to be heroes and villains. Or at least super powered ones, he introduced me to Pre...

I am getting old, or at least my brothers are. I left home in 2000, and my brothers would have been 4 and 5. That is how I remember them, in my mind they have seemed stuck there. Yes I watched them grow up and they became teenage boys. They did all the stuff associated with that, dick, fart and gay jokes..... One went to school, the other went to work. And at some point along the way they became men. Or at least young adult males. On a long drive to Saskatchewan with my littlest brother (lil beast if you read older blogs) we sat and chatted about a million things. History, politics, food, health, religion. I have always considered myself smart, fairly knowledgeable but when my brother started speaking I was amazed. He brought up shit I had never heard of. He wasn’t arrogant or combative just made good cases for his ideas. (Something you don’t see on twitter…) I knew he wasn’t that little boy I remembered, the teenage boy addicted to video games and there was more than just a kid who ...