Funnybooks
[An essay of mine is being published today on the World of Superheroes web site. it's about, um, superheroes. Enjoy! http://www.worldofsuperheroes.com/superheroes/funnybooks-by-edmund-x-dejesus/ Here's the full text.] Funnybooks by Edmund X. DeJesus MARCH 28, 2013 11:25 AM Funnybooks by Edmund X. DeJesus Funnybooks. That’s what my Uncle Ralph always called the comics he brought me. He’d show up at the back door of our home in suburban Cranston, Rhode Island, carrying a brown corrugated cardboard box. “It fell off the back of a truck,” he’d say. I was six years old, and didn’t know that “fell off a truck” meant “stolen.” All I knew was that Uncle Ralph worked for a shipping company, and how lucky we were that he was there to catch the things that fell off the trucks and share his good fortune with us. Sometimes the carton would be full of envelopes, and I’d spend hours writing letters to imaginary friends in far-away places. Other times they had pap