Comic Book Question 13

by Revis Edgewater

What was your first comic book?

Well, I suppose if you want to get technical, my first comic book was a comic book version of the Bible that my aunt and uncle got me for my First Communion. Since nobody was wearing spandex in it, however, I’m not counting it as a valid answer to this question. I also don’t have a single answer for it because the next time I bought comics after that, during my high school years, I bought two of them. What happened in them? I honestly don’t remember. I do remember that the only reason I bought them was because I thought the covers were cool, and the covers are the only reason I found them again.

The first one is Ghost Rider/Blaze: Spirits of Vengeance.

Ghost Rider/Blaze: Spirits of Vengeance #16

Guys with flaming skulls shooting each other with fire? Pretty cool when you’re a teenage boy.

The second one is Punisher 2099.

Punisher 2099 #11

Cyborg guy with a werewolf arm? Also cool when you’re a teenage boy.

I never followed up on either of these series after buying these issues way back when. Mostly because I was a teenage boy who rarely had money, but also because I bought them at a flea market, as we had no comic book store where I was living at the time. At least, I don’t think we did. I’d actually forgotten about them until a guy at work asked me this question. I looked both series up on Marvel Unlimited, but it only has the first six issues of the Ghost Rider series and just one of the Punisher 2099, a crossover tie-in, so I can’t go back and try to read them again.

Oh, well. It’s just one of those things.

What about you? What was your first comic book?

YouTube Friday: 24348

by Revis Edgewater

The very first album that I remember owning was When Seconds Count, by Survivor. It was a Christmas present (I think) from my dad, who got it because he knew I liked Eye of the Tiger. If he’d have bothered to look at the track listing, he might have noticed that Eye of the Tiger wasn’t on that album. I’m glad he didn’t, though, because if he did, I might’ve never heard this song, which sticks with me today, just like it did way back then.

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by Revis Edgewater

The first aid station at work, in addition to bandages, also has a few medicines in it. One of them is acetaminophen, the generic name for Tylenol. Instead of calling it acetaminophen, however, the company that makes it decided to call them “non-aspirin” tablets, which I find amusing since everything in the world, except for aspirin, can technically be called non-aspirin and it would be correct.

Friday Question #7

by Revis Edgewater

A few weeks ago, I asked the light side version of this question, so this week, we’ll go to the dark side.

Which non-Star Wars character would make the most powerful Sith?

This is another question that I had difficulty answering. I must’ve started writing this paragraph three or four times, each time with a different answer, before settling on what I’m answering now. As I did for the Jedi version of this question, I’m pulling my answer out of R.A. Salvatore’s corner of Forgotten Realms.

Yvonnel Baenre.

Like I said last time, the drow are a cruel and vicious race. For over 1000 years, their city of Menzoberranzan was ruled by the most cruel and vicious of them all: Matron Mother Yvonnel Baenre. She did everything in her power to rise to the top of the city’s hierarchy and even worse to stay there. Anyone who stood in her way or hindered her position of power, including her own family, were dealt with swiftly and mercilessly. Yvonnel enjoyed watching people suffer, even if she wasn’t the one inflicting the pain. In fact, the more ruthless you were, the higher esteem she held you in.

And, I’d be willing to bet that if she had the powers of the Dark Side of the Force instead of her priestess spells, she wouldn’t have lost her fight against Drizzt Do’Urden and his companions.

What about you? Which non-Star Wars character do you think would make the most powerful Sith?