Tyler @ Blog O’Bones

A few weeks ago, as I was wrapping up my “Great Blog Tour” (11 articles for 11 blogs in 10 weeks – here’s a list of the articles), I stopped by my good buddy Mike Elrod’s new “Blog O’Bones” site to talk comics and the origins of Whiz!Bam!Pow!

There have been two firsts in my life that I look back on fondly, and they have nothing to do with sex. It’s all about comic books, baby.

The first first was at a Rite Aid in Millersburg, Ohio. It was 1989, Burton’s Batman had planted the seed of comic bookery passion, and an eight-year-old version of me walked over to a spinner rack filled with 22-page pamphlets, brightly covered with images of extraordinary people doing extraordinary things. At the top of the rack, Archie, Spider-Man, and Superman’s disembodied heads implored me to “Buy One Today.”

Who’s going to argue with those icons?

You can read the complete article (and more) at Mike’s site, the “Blog O’Bones.” Thanks Mike!