we don't talk enough so I'm sending you another one. Who's your favourite superhero? (And why if you have a reason)
Nightwing. My goodness do I love Dick Grayson and I think it shows in pretty much everything I write. The reason is probably because he’s someone I can relate to on a lot of levels. He’s a big brother, and even though I’m the middle child, with how my family turned out, I really was the one watching out for my little siblings. Because no one really watched out for me, and I felt that starkly. I didn’t want the same thing for my sisters.
And Dick, he’s all about family and friends and loved ones, and he just cares so deeply. A lot of what I write actually reflects him caring and loving and hurting and a lot of it’s a reflection of me, as much as I try not to make it. But I’ve found a character that I can resonate with and project onto and when I read about how strong he is despite being a human with some extra training trying his best to save others, it makes me want to feel that strong, too.
He just makes me feel.
Also, the way comic artists draw how he moves takes my breath away. That’s always a wonderful feeling and definitely adds to why he’s my favorite.
I’m gonna add a second one, too. Spider-Man. He’s always been the superhero that I’ve known. Back when I was a kid, besides Batman and Superman, Peter Parker was the only superhero I knew of that I could find any sort of comfort in what I knew. My mom wasn’t big on me reading comics or watching superhero movies (”That’s for Tyler, Camryn. Go play barbies with your sisters.”) so I mostly read books because I didn’t want to play barbies. I wanted to lose myself in worlds that I didn’t understand yet, and find characters that I could relate to, and Spider-Man was like the only one that I really knew anything about.
And lately, with all the Homecoming stuff and me getting into comics, I’ve learned to love him as a character that struggles and struggles and struggles, starting when he was a little kid watching his parents leave out the door and never come back, to now in the comics when he’s an adult as still trying to figure out where his mess of a life is going. Man, I just. It’s Spider-Man, ya know?
(Also, yes, we don’t talk enough! But that seems to be a common problem with me while I’m living in Italy. Time ones, man. It’s like literally almost time for bed.)
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