Oh Thor Movie, please don't suck. I want you to be awesome so bad. You and Captain America Movie are how I will set my hope for Avenger Movie. Be Spider Man 1 Movie, not Daredevil Movie. Your people need this.

Wars are fought with weapons, but they are won by men.

When I remember back to the the earliest moments of my love for comic books, the vision I have is of me laying in bed, X-Men comics strewn all around, reading the lastest installment in what would later be called the Dark Phoenix Saga.

This storyline, written by Claremont and drawn by Byrne were like my Big Bang event. Before this, I was a child who had read some comics. After this, I was a comic book reader. I had been hooked. This simple plot, which carried over 30 or so issues of the X-Men would kick off for me a lifelong interest in comics, as well as in literature and reading.

I can't overstate the impact this story arc had on my life as a teenager, as a young adult, and even now as a middle-aged man still struggling daily with keeping my humanity in the face of growing power and responsibility.

This storyline embodies so much of what I love about comics.

I first read Bone on the recommendation of a friend. He lent it to me with a "You really should read this" tone. I looked at the first few pages, saw the cartoonish protagonist, sighed, and resigned myself to reading enough to satisfy my social obligation to give it a shot.

I could not expect what came next. This graphic novel took me from a cute almost disney-esque character plot through themes of corruption and devotion, love and betrayal. In a way that totally snuck up on me, this work left me silent and thoughtful when I closed the book for the last time.

What a thrilling, meandering, adventurous, cute, scary, and sweet book!

Maus is the gripping biography of the author's father told through the medium of a graphic novel.

The novel's subject, Vladek Spiegelman, was a Polish Jew and Holocaust survivor and the story moves between his life in Poland before and during the Second World War and his later life in the Rego Park neighborhood of New York City.

This work has won a Pulitzer Prize. It's worth taking the time to read it and find out why.