Comic Book Day
Today is National Comic Book day , and in most parts of the United States, if you visit a bookstore or outlet that sells them, you're liable to take home some freebies! It's been awhile since I last read a comic book, but that doesn't mean I don't want to anymore. Like most kids of my generation, we grew up on comics -- whether they be in the form of Sunday Funnies that we eagerly slipped out of our father's newspaper after church, or the store-bought kind we always had spare allowance change to buy. For me, it wasn't about superheros or the standard favorites and all about love. I'd be hard-pressed to give you the exact date and time of my first glimpse into one of these charming, old relics, so let's just say I was still in elementary school and leave it at that. What I can say with definite certainty is that, for me, it became the equivalent of an old Lay's potato chips slogan: you can't read just one. I poured ove...