Welcome to Father Nerd

“People call me Wolverine. I’m the best there is at what I do, and what I do is ...”

This is the slogan that starts almost every Wolverine comic book. It typically would end with “and what I do is not very nice.” The untamed haired Weapon X Canadian has become quite a popular mainstay in modern pop culture. I am adopting a slogan that will become my blog mantra. To be like Logan I have to state this mantra at the onset of every adventure that I start. The question will then become what does a mild mannered father of 3 that spends way too much time reading comic books have that could possibly classified as an adventure? Well, dear reader you are currently peeping it right now, I need a mantra worthy of being ever present as an introduction to me and my musings as Father Nerd.

First draft. “People call me Father Nerd. I have a witty opinion about comic books and pop culture, and I am not afraid to express it.”

Okay, nobody calls me Father Nerd. I adopted the moniker with help from a fellow blogger, as the first version was Nerd Dad. I need to keep expressing my fatherhood status as it is the most important and rewarding job I have. “Educating” my children is on the forefront of my agenda. My two oldest children are well versed in retaining which hero/villain belongs to which publisher. Batman? DC. Spider-man? Marvel. Hulk? Marvel. Superman? DC. Big names like that, you think, sure pretty easy. But my kids know some of the obscure ones also. That whole homework thing can wait, kids, what can you tell me about Killer Croc? I am obviously on the ball with assimilating my children into the world known as nerd-dom.

How about this for my blog’s theme, mantra, reason for being? “I am Father Nerd. My knowledge of comic books will be used to alter the minds of the youth that I have influence over. I have a witty opinion about comic books and pop culture, and I am not afraid to express it.”