when Iron Man made his way into the big screen, the latent potential of my interest in superheroes, especially the universe of Marvel and its superheroes, suddenly ensued out like artesian wells that has found their exits from their groundwater storage.

When it all began with Batman and Spiderman taking turns entering Hollywood, i thought of them as singular and not of the bigger picture that they all belong to Marvel. Even Hulk and Fantastic Four and definitely X-Men, just to name a few. Yes, we all know that superheroes are easy money in the showbiz but I have failed to realise how boys a few generation before me had spend countless amount of their childhood and adolescent years reading comic issues of their favourite superheroes.

Until Iron Man came about, he was like my posterboy of Marvel, because of his metallic body and his not-so-human outlook. And when i found out that Iron man has a post end-credits scene that we have sadly missed, about the Avengers, which seemed like a very old name from an ancient comicbook, it finally got me thinking that these superheroes are intertwined by the very creators of Marvel.

I still remembered Iron Man from one of the few cartoon series when i was young, he didnt appeal to me much because of the graphic i guess, but they are already animated. Spiderman and Batman may have been immortalized but Iron Man had got me wanting more. I wish to dwell back into my father's generation, into those days where every comic issue was worth anticipating for. Plagued by modernisation, i decided to wiki on Iron Man which I hardly know anything about except for the movie and the metals and i got so much information of the Avengers. Marvel had definitely come a long way. I have but just touched the tip of the iceberg.

While you are preoccupied with Lumpy the Heffalump and the newly introduced Katie, i wished to be able to experience what it is like reading all the issues of all the superheroes created by Marvel. Especially when Marvel has just begun including a political stance in their comics where all of the big names come together. But that may wait until after A's, because right now, the A's have got to be my comic issue, a chapter of the story of my passage in life.