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How the World Will Soon be in Maximum Carnage Thanks to Social Media
Tik tok, the clock is ticking…
Growing up in Chicago, my family lived near gang infested neighborhoods. To avoid recruitment, we did two things: went to school and played Sega Genesis and Nintendo. School was a major resource for us to retrieve games we never played before and it was all thanks to my brother’s popularity.
He was and still is excellent at winning friends and influencing people. I personally wasn’t so great at it (as Denzel Washington puts it, I was socially handicap), but my brother was a burgeoning socialite. Anyway, I benefitted from his relationships.
My brother would borrow games and comics from his friends, even when we didn’t have anything to exchange. I learned early that if people find fondness with you, they’ll share without or with minimal expectation.
In the 4th grade, my brother had this friend named Alberto. Alberto was huge into comics. He, as far as I know, was the only person in our grade to have several issues (not the entire series) of the Maximum Carnage limited run that was released.
He loaned my brother 5 of the books from the 8 that he had. I believe there were 15 books in total.
The story line was something I’ve never witnessed in a Spider-Man comic. It blew my…
