I Wish I Were An Ex-Man

Ha! Got your attention, did I? Well that was the point! My title should actually read "I Wish I Were An X-Men", but I figured I could stir more curiosity and interest in my blog readers with the other choice. Hopefully now that you know of my deceit, you will not decide against reading on. So yes, I had days as a young boy where I put on my mother's high heels and pulled my shirt down so my shoulders were exposed through the neck hole of my shirt, and I would walk around acting like I was Erica from All My Children, or whatever soap opera she played in. And yes, you now know about my sexy lady lip biting tactics I exercised and also learned from the soap operas. But I swear, I want to be a MAN! I am, however, referring to my days as an avid X-Men watching child/teenager. Where I would watch every single episode of the Saturday morning Fox TV cartoon. I would collect every comic I could afford with my small allowance. I would collect cups and VHS tapes that were promotions at the nearby Pizza Hut. And I would role play with friends as Gambit as they played the other fellow X-Men. As all of these blogs are aimed at portraying me as a geek and awkward child/teen, and I have been receiving criticism from some readers that they feel I am not geeky at all from what they are reading; I figured I would bring up my comic book collecting addiction. I believe it was by the age of fourteen that I owned approximately 1300 comics (Mostly X-Men), and I read almost all of them at least once. I had two copies of the 1991 first X-Men comic because each had a different cover. I had every issue of the Gambit series spinoff comic. I had nearly half of the Wolverine spinoff series. And about 200 Uncanny X-Men. I, of course, still have these comics today. Recently I even took a trip with friends to Jay and Silent Bob's Secret Stash comic store in New Jersey and while my friends spent more money than I did, I was able to pick up some Star Trek issues I didn't have yet, a Battlestar Galactica graphic novel, a couple Batman issues written and autographed by Kevin Smith, and a Starship Enterprise model! Now who is not geeky?!?!?!