Ava Reads DC!

 Hey fellow superheroes!

If we're being perfectly honest, this blog is solely so I can stop flooding my friends and family's Facebook walls with my obscene amount of DC content. Now, instead, I can flood this blog with all of my shitty opinions!

My name is Ava! I'm 19-years-old from Texas, and I'm a pretty new DC fan.

Back in July of 2021, I was living just down the road from one of my dearest friends. Freshly 19, living alone for the first time; I was on top of the world. I wasn't really a superhero person, a comic book person, or even really a movie person! (I only saw The Shawshank Redemption for the first time, like, three months ago.) But when Richard Donner passed away, my buddy insisted we watch Superman in his honor. My friend had mentioned us starting a DC marathon, complete with Zack Snyder's Justice League, but I hadn't really taken it seriously. After all, it wasn't really something I was interested in in the first place.

But Richard Donner had died, and my friend insisted we watch the 1978 Christopher Reeve classic, Superman. 

One random night in July. That started it all.

Quickly after that, we made it through 1989 Batman, V for Vendetta (a DC movie? Can you believe?), Constantine (Another surprise for me!), 2019's Shazam, The Dark Knight, and my first DC Animated Universe flick, Justice League War. All of this marathoning wrapped up with the Snyder cut of Justice League. 

What a whirlwind. Superhero movies could be good! I had suffered through a MCU-centric childhood that made me feel like superhero movies were boring, bland, and redundant. The less you could understand what was going on, the better. Superheroes are all vengeful pricks, or self-righteous douchebags; too wrapped up in themselves and their struggles to ever truly think about anyone else.

But Superman and Batman, they were true hope. Sure, they have different ways of showing it, but Batman was a beacon of hope to Gotham the was Superman was a beacon of hope to Metropolis. They were driven by a love for their city, a love for these people. The Justice League felt like a bunch of friends, as opposed to the Avengers who felt like coworkers on a good day. And hey, I liked villains with gimmicks like The Riddler, contrasting the "realism" of the MCU with their corrupt governments. (Listen, I watch a superhero movie to escape. If I want to watch a corrupt leader destroy everything, I'll turn on the 10pm news.)

As a gift, my friend sent me home from our Justice League viewing with my first ever comic: Batman: Zero Year  by Scott Snyder.

It was all downhill from there.

Currently, I own about 15 physical comic books. Digitally however, I have almost 30! Not a large collection by any means, but I've loved almost everything I've read. From Superman to Batman, from Nightwing to Aquaman, I'm reading anything I can get my hands on.

On this blog, I'll be reviewing comics I've read, new ones coming out, and keeping you updated on my goal of reading 52 comics this year! If you ever want to see what I'm reading, check out the list on my homepage! Have a book suggestion? Drop it in the comments below!

Happy soaring!