When I moved to St. Louis almost two decades ago, I found a welcoming corner of my new home by revisiting an old hobby.
I wear my fondness for comic books, especially Spider-Man, on Twitter, in chats, and in conversations, and all these years later I realize that in those early years of my time at the Post-Dispatch, the culture of the comic shop helped me get comfortable here. In the overlap between Cardinals baseball and comic books, I’ve made great friends, too. Comics offered great narratives – an infinite and infinitely fertile landscape for world-building and story-telling.