Introduction

The Leviathan in Jewish tradition is a giant sea monster that God "made to play with" (Psalms 104:26). When the messiah comes we also might feast on its flesh (if you don't like sea food, DON'T FRET, there will also be Behemoth meat). Hobbes said, "For by art is created that great ‘Leviathan’ called a ‘Commonwealth’ or ‘State,’ in Latin civitas, which is but an artificial man, though of greater stature and strength than the natural..." In Mike Carey and Peter Gross's The Unwritten, the Leviathan is the physical manifestation of the collective subconscious that gives power to stories.

Clearly I have received fancy papers, and am a very smart person, so I hope you'll listen to my opinions on comic books. Ever since I can remember I've loved comics, and in all of my studies I never got a chance to write about them. I've written for a few publications, but most of them don't want to hear about my analyses about why Magneto is in fact the best representation of Shylock in Western history. So screw those guys. I'm going to use the vast podium that the internet offers to talk about comics. Sometimes it's going to be about the philosophy of comics. Sometimes I'll write reviews of old runs. Sometimes I'll write reviews of current comics. Sometimes I'll write about science in comics. Sometimes I'll talk about comic franchises making the leap to the big screen. Sometimes I'll stop to remind about that one time in Heroes a character left his girlfriend in a horrific alternate timeline that he then proceeded to erase, and how no one ever mentioned it ever.

In short, we're going to have fun. This is my chance to just let loose and ramble about the modern mythos we call comic books.

I hope you enjoy.