My kid brother, 10 years younger than me, is an English Lit major in his last semester at the local state college. For one of his final 400 level classes, he gets to write about comic books. I’m intrigued. The subject Christopher has chosen to tackle for his final paper is the relationship between comic books and movies: how movies have changed comics. I'm a good candidate to evaluate that change because I have both a deep familiarity with comics and some necessary distance. I was a comic book geek as a teen, buying, reading and selling several thousand comic books over a five- or six-year period in the 1990s.
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