Comics by Annie
Annie was 8 years old when she first remembers reading comic books. It began when her dad saw her wanting to read the comic strips in every Sunday news paper. To avoid stunting her inquiring mind, and to enable her growing curiosity, and passion, her father picked her up her first comic book, Archie. Although she did not read all the ‘Archie’ comics she did say that “Archie opened me up to the world of comics, and from there, I just went crazy”. One of her favorite past times is reading ‘Casper the Friendly Ghost’ comics during her first memorable Halloweens. This was before of course, she was allowed to read the vault of horror comics.
Quickly, through high school her love for comics expanded. Annie delved into the superhero comics like crazy reading mostly Marvel and DC. Her favorite character was and still is Black Widow simply because “There is nothing super about her. She is just a regular lady who happens to be a badass!” . Annie continued to say that she tries to implement the Black Widow into her everyday life. “She is a strong role model for females everywhere. She proves that you don’t need powers to be super. I guess she just shows that the average woman is just as strong as the strongest man”. Annie let me in to her favorite scenes being when Black Widow is with Maki on the train trying to figure out who hired her. She leaves the encounter victorious while maniacally and silently using Maki’s own weapon against her while on a community train. She leaves stating “Killing is easy, but making people suffer is an art”. Right there Annie knew black widow was her favorite superhero. This is because “she’s not like the destructive, macho men. She’s not going to hulk smash. She did what she needed to do without disrupting the children on the train. She demolished the enemy without anyone even noticing it was happening. If that isn’t the definition of super, man I don’t know what is.”
the image above is from https://readcomiconline.to/Comic/Black-Widow-2010/Issue-4?id=9156 . Issue 4 of Marvel Black Widow
Annie has not given up comic books and doesn’t think she ever will. Being 25 years old now she only sees her love for comics growing through the rebirth of Wonder Woman, and the recent media publications of Black Panther and Spider Man. Overall, Annie states that “Once you enter the universe of comics, you’re screwed. There are to many universes to explore and you will get lost. However not returning is the best part.”
