In school we discuss nurture vs nature and the concept of how it effects a child as they grow up and I have always wondered this concept within myself. I am a kid of the 90’s comics, tv, and toys some of the best times for superhero animation. I remember being 5 at a garage sale with my family and my dad buying me a stack of comics. These were my 1st comics ever and it was a stack of Spawn, I had never read comics just watched my Saturday morning cartoons and VHS tapes that I owned. The comic was like nothing I had seen previously and I was immediately engulfed in a side I never really saw the anti-hero. Someone who took the next steps that a normal hero wouldn’t and I loved it the more extreme look from the chains to the skulls I thought they were the coolest characters ever.
As I grew, I realized that this was what set me out to always look for the more extreme characters and stories. Movies, anime, comics, toys, and video games the darker the better and it was not that I enjoyed the more violent aspects it was the idea of the bad guys facing real consequences. Not everything had to be happy and bright and the world is saved. So was it my 1st comic that truly influenced my taste for the future I think it did and it helped me realize sooner real-world problems. When a hero is faced with tragedy or a tough decision that is what I can appreciate in most storylines true internal struggle. A notable story line that comes to mind Spider-Man Reign or a lot of the DC dark Multiverse storylines you see a side that never really comes out in normal storylines and it grabs my attention every time.
If anyone has had a discussion with me you would realize why my friends and employees call me the Edge Lord and at 1st this title bothered me but now, I embrace it because I am who I am due to the comics I read. You can never have enough skulls or black and white on a costume. Your 1st comic can really set your taste and ideology for the future and I wouldn’t change it for the world.