As a father of two young girls, I deeply appreciate the book's emphasis on normalizing intelligence and a passion for STEM among young girls. "Lucy Veloz: High Flying Princess" empowers young readers, especially girls, to see themselves as capable and adventurous, breaking stereotypes and encouraging them to embrace their curiosity and ambition.

I wanted to first thank all of my guests for being a part of my podcast. When I started it at the beginning of last February, I had no idea that we were going to be facing such a tough year.

Talking to them has been equal parts inspiration, social connection, and therapeutic. I have been consistently humbled and encouraged by the conversations and I am looking forward to seeing where next year will take us. In our inaugural year, we were able to produce 50 shows!

The story felt rushed and honestly didn’t do much for me. Instead of concentrating on character development, it seemed like the writer, Kelly Thompson was shoehorned to start some meta plot story seeds for the larger Marvel Comics universe.

I reread the 18 issue series “The Comet” from the short-lived 90’s DC spinoff publication series, Impact Comics. They had 6 titles, and my favorite, by far with The Comet.

I still think he had the best superhero origin story. Once Rob Conners (The Comet) discovered the origin of his powers, he basically spiraled down mentally and he eventually died.

Society changes, writers change, art changes; and if one feels that the addition of updating the back story of a character is offensive, then do not read the comic book. Comic books have always been at the forefront of human rights and social justice issues and that will never change.

…I mentioned in some previous posts that I’m reading the in X-men titles. I read the first 4 issues of the new Cable series. I need to do a bit of research to figure out why Cable is now a young man and not the old gruff guy he was when I read him 20 or so years ago.

We had a full week of podcasts! Since our last update, we had 3 more interviews to add to our library. The first one was with well-known artist and YouTube star, Scott Serkland. He talked about his career as an illustrator and cartoonist and provided some tips on how to make a living on it.

We have had a couple of great interviews this past week. We interviewed Bill Columbe from Y Comics where he talked about his latest Kickstarter. We also interviewed acclaimed author and career coach, Kris McPeak about her latest best selling book.