Avengers, Assemble!

Well, this is awesome.

I’m a geek who does geek stuff.  Some of that stuff is ordinary (I watch Joss Whedon shows, read Terry Pratchett, am a huge fan of robotics, have a career in science where I get to wear a lab coat every day).  Some is slightly less ordinary (I give panels on the music of Doctor Who at conventions; I’m writing a book about Doctor Who and the autism spectrum).  All of it is fantastically good fun, and there’s nothing I love more than being a geek.  Really.

I’ve been lucky enough to meet people (almost exclusively online, but oh, well) who share my interests.  There’s a wonderful core group of Doctor Who fans with whom I chat most evenings; I’ve both met and made Sherlock and Sherlock Holmes fans; the tech down the hall is a Discworld nut; Team Paradox welcomed me with open arms.  And if I’ve ever had an interest that I didn’t know was shared, I’ve just sort of quietly enjoyed it on my own.

Well, that was a mistake.

It turns out I have friends who are Marvel fans!  It turns out I have friends who want to be Marvel fans!  I’m not quite sure why the sudden upsurge in comic book interest (most of the movies are old news by now, and The Avengers isn’t out until next May), but suddenly, every time I turn around, another one of my (again, online-only) friends is asking me about real-world parallels in the “Civil War” series or laughing at one of Deadpool‘s wisecracks or asking me for copies of my movies or comics.

This is fantastic.  Or should I say, marvellous?

Any more of you out there?  C’mon, guys.  Come out of the woodwork.  Share the geek love.

Avengers, assemble!

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