Meeting Our Cultural Overlords at Comic-Con

Meeting Our Cultural Overlords at Comic-Con

My comic books origin story is spotty and uninspiring. In third grade, I'd giggle through Mad magazine from cover to cover, as all precocious third-graders should. I indulged a brief flirtation with the Punisher in middle school—but even my 12-year-old self blanched a little at the empty violence.