The SeanGeek

 Joe Quesada is stepping away from Marvel Comics. For some it is a day of jubilation. The man did a ton for Marvel Comics. But he also did one thing that, at one time, made him the most hated person in comics. For me, at the time, I was very angry. He touched the one thing that was so sacred to me. So let's provide some context. Anyone that knows me knows about my lifelong love of comic books. They might be familiar with my introductions to Spider-Man, my love of Stan Lee and my love of Marvel. My first comic book I truly feel in love with was Spider-Man. Unlike the Batman and Superman comics I was reading, Spider-Man was written for me. He wasn't a billionaire, he wasn't an alien. He was a kid with alot of the same problems many of us had. He was broke, he was a nerd, he was bullied, yet he had these powers that were weird and strange. I really identified with Spider-Man, and Stan Lee's writing really cemented my love of the character. And Steve Ditko, and later Buscem...

 Marvel Studios Moon Knight came out of left field for most people. Everything about the choice struck an odd chord. For me personally, I owned maybe a comic or two, and had him show up in other character's comics from time to time. I knew very little about his history as a character. I likely read something about him way back when during Marvel Comics' run of the Official Handbook to the Marvel Universe. And I may have played him as a character in the Marvel Super Heroes Role Playing Game. There was some things going against the character, that may have kept me at bay. I had often heard this was Marvel's Batman. I heard he had multiple personalities. I heard he was incredibly violent. He was an anti-hero. Etcetera , etcetera, etcetera. Some of these had something to do with jumping in on a character that was so incredibly complicated that it would take years to even understand what was going on. I was too late to the party. With Marvel Studios, we are all in on the ground ...

Today is the day.  A long time ago I stumbled across this little comic drawn by Steve Ditko called Dr Strange. I had been led to that promised land by that other little title he had been working on called Spider-Man. I was a late comer to Mr Ditko. I had grown up on the Spider-Man of the late 70's/early 80's (come on, man I was under 5 years old) and had never really experienced the wonder that was Ditko. It was years later when I picked up some reprint black and whites of old Spider-Man that I really stumbled into Ditko and wanting so much more, I delved into Dr Strange. Wow. The art style was so much different than everyone else, so original, so think-y, so trippy. This wasn't the typical smooth lines of Romita or Byrne, this wasn't the pizzazz that was Kirby, this was something completely different. I'll admit the art drew me right in, but I soon picked up on the stories, which was Stan feeding off of Ditko. The stories were so out there, so different,...