Graphically Novel

I don't read comic books.

But I did as a child.

And while I did enjoy reading various issues featuring the hero de jour, the one comic I looked forward to the most was called Marvel Universe.

It was an encyclopedia of the characters in the books.

Heroes.

Villains.

Cosmic entities too big to be either.

And everyone of note in between.

It was done alphabetically.

You'd get a letter or two in each issue. As. Bs. Cs to Ds. Etc.

Each entry would be a biography. Their strength level (I remember it topped out at pressing 100+ tons over their head). Their superpowers (if any).

This memory got me to thinking.

Uh oh.

Would anyone read the Actual Universe?

An encyclopedia of today's heroes, villains, cosmic entities too big to be either, and everyone of note in between?

I suppose social media is sort of like that.

Or personal websites.

But has anyone really categorized them and put them into one place?

Wikipedia?

But I can't pick up the As in Wiki.

Even I ain't that strong.

Oh boy, he's feeling it today.

This all falls into my theory that instead of resumes we should all have character sheets.

Instead of social media pages, we should have an Actual Universe handbook.

It occurs to me, as such things do, that a lot of the things we take for granted as truth, just isn't.

People lie.

Stretch the truth.

Remember it a certain way.

Asterisks.

I suppose a comic book doesn't fix that.

But it does frame it as true fiction.

And if you treated social media and personal websites as comic books, well things make a lot more sense.

I don't need your life story.

Well, yes I do.

Just keep it to a page.

Biography.

Strength level.

Superpowers (if any).

Sum up everything about you in a page or two.

And tell the truth, as you see it.

What do you share? 

What do you leave out?

What I've learned is, people just want to be entertained.

Especially in the comic book we call Life.