reborn in america

Chris is a comic fan. Although he is only 16 years old, he has read comics for ten years. Like most comic fans, he also has a comic company he supports, which is Marvel.

He entered the pit as Marvel's Spider-Man, the down-to-earth and funny character who can spray spider silk, produce mouth-watering, really made him fall in love with it in minutes.Then when he grew up, he unknowingly felt that he had entered the pit of the X-Men. Compared with other comics, the complexity and depth of the X-Men far surpassed that of the superpowers. Fights, conflicts between superpowers and normal humans, etc., have greater visibility in terms of plot.

However, since he entered high school, due to the internal turmoil in Marvel, a large number of powerful cartoonists have left, which has caused a significant decline in the quality of Marvel's popular king Spider-Man. In addition, the Avengers, Iron Man, etc. have no What's so good about it, as for his favorite X-Men, the plot also appeared to be weak, without the initial touch for him, so he began to gradually shift his attention to the game, and the comics became a mere comic instead. A way to relax and unwind without getting as addicted as you used to be.

But this situation began to change after a comic called Druid came out last year.This comic is not as attractive as Spiderman in terms of character design, and the plot is not as deep as the X-Men, but compared to other comics, he is more down-to-earth, especially because all the stories are unfolded on campus. The detailed description in it made him, who happens to be a high school student now, empathize with him, and has a great sense of substitution.What made him most heartbroken was that this comic was extremely creative and exciting in terms of fighting, so he fell into the trap again, and he would never miss every issue of the comic.

At Christmas, through the reminder in the comics, I found out that the author has written a science fiction book, and the sales volume is very good. (It's not that Marvel has a conscience, it's just that they want to use the other party's Dongfeng to increase the sales of comics, but the fact is that this approach has indeed increased the sales of comics, or the sales of comics have increased tremendously, and their influence has extended It didn't subside for months.)

So he went to the bookstore for the first time in his life and bought the novel called "Jurassic Park". It took him three full days to finish reading it. So addicted to a novel at a time.

However, I have to say that this seemingly incomprehensible novel is simply fantastic. He combines dinosaurs tens of millions of years ago with current technology, makes bold assumptions, and has no clues in the plot. It is not boring, but after reading the whole book, it is thrilling and heart-wrenching.

After reading it, Chris was completely impressed by this man named Adam Baker. To be honest, ordinary people who read comics like him rarely go back to learn about cartoonists except for some well-known writers, but Adam this The same age as a cartoonist and writer gave him the urge to understand for the first time in his life.

For this reason, he deliberately borrowed the tape of the Tonight Show that Adam only appeared on camera from other people in the school, and then recorded it with his own video tape, and specially marked it with "Adam Baker's first tv show record" ".

It’s just that although Adam appeared on the show, the show didn’t have much time for Adam, and it was mainly for advertising the novel "Jurassic Park", so there was very little introduction of specific information about Adam himself. Pitiful.

But despite this, Adam's handsome face and the typhoon that showed no timidity made him quite admire.He knew that Adam was also an otaku who was obsessed with comics when he was in high school. If it wasn't for the accidents at home, maybe he wouldn't have picked up a brush to draw comics at all. He thought what would happen if he was the one who stood on that show Performance?Maybe he would be so nervous that he couldn't even speak, but Adam talked with eloquence, without the slightest timidity, he was so handsome.

As a fan of Adam, Chris has also taught himself comics since this year. Although he does not expect to become a successful cartoonist and writer like Adam one day, as long as he persists, it is always possible.Or one day when he becomes a cartoonist, he can apply to join Marvel Comics, so maybe he will be able to meet Adam himself and work with him. (Poor kid, I don’t even know that Adam never drew comics in Marvel Studios from the beginning to the end...)

It has to be said that as a writer and a popular cartoonist, Adam's exposure in the media is not as good as that of a third- and fifth-tier Hollywood star.Although he has a handsome face and talents beyond the reach of ordinary people, firstly, he is low-key and doesn't like to appear in the media, and secondly, the profession of writer itself is not a profession with high exposure rate, so fans like Chris Unfortunately, I can only see a little news about him when the newspaper occasionally mentioned the preparation of the "Jurassic Park" movie.

Fortunately, Adam is a cartoonist, so at least every month he can see the cartoons produced by Adam, although he doesn't know that the cartoons he sees now are not drawn by Adam himself.In order to work on the novel, Adam gradually handed over the main task of comics to the comic studio he formed.

Although he doesn't draw comics by himself anymore, he still controls the plot of "Druid" comics, and every new important character and every new transformation and fighting method are also controlled by him. Designed by Adam, so the quality is always guaranteed. It is a rare benchmark in the Marvel Comics magazines that generally decline in quality.

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On this day, Chris got up early for no reason. After tossing and turning in bed for half an hour, he didn’t feel sleepy, and walked out the door with his shoes on. I will be busy for ten days and a half months without seeing anyone.

Since it's Monday, the new issue of comics is about to arrive, Chris thought so, he decided to go to the mailbox downstairs to check if he was bored. He has been playing games all the time, and he got a little tired of playing, so he decided to change things to pass the time today.

Because Chris got up relatively early, the whole corridor was very quiet when he went downstairs, and there was no one there.He habitually walked to their mailbox, opened it, and sure enough, the new issue of "X-Men" had arrived. He reached in excitedly and took out the comics. Maybe it was because the action was too big. When he took it out, he bumped into the mailbox next door and knocked half of the newspapers inserted in it and dropped it.

He turned his head and looked around, but no one noticed, so he quickly bent down to pick it up, and was about to put it back into the other party's letter box, but when he picked it up, he found that the front page of the newspaper was a frontal photo of Adam. .

But on the front page, Adam was wearing a simple white T-shirt on his upper body and a pair of slim-fit jeans on his lower body. He smiled slightly and faced the camera. He looked clean and refreshing, very is comfortable.

Adam actually accepted an interview with the California Times?Chris looked at the photo of Adam in the newspaper in surprise and said in a low voice. Although it was a little impolite, he opened the newspaper immediately, only to see that the newspaper used a huge space on the whole side to publish this gift. Adam's interview.

In this interview, there is no traditional question and answer. Instead, it is a record of the chat between the two. The content is a bit rambling, but it is firmly centered around Adam's personal experience and works. It seems very comfortable. Not so many boxes to go around.

From this exclusive interview, it was the first time that Chris had such an in-depth understanding of Adam's experience. At first, he only vaguely knew that he entered the comics industry because of an accident in his family, but he didn't mention the accident.

But in the interview here, Adam recalled his father Baker Sr., and when Baker Sr. passed away, the family was so bad that it almost collapsed, and then how Adam sent the cartoon nervously. How exciting.

When he saw that Adam paid the tuition fees of the three brothers and sisters with his cartoon drawing fee, and finally did not have to move thousands of miles away from California, when the family sat around the dining table and prayed in a low voice to thank God for the gift, Chris couldn't help being moved. Eye sockets are red.

After reading it, Chris deeply felt that the cartoonist he admired also had such a difficult life experience.At the end of the interview, Adam mentioned that he wrote a new book called "The Witcher", which is a fantasy novel, and it was temporarily published in the California Times, and the page where the novel was located was specially marked in bold number.

Chris looked at it, and was a little curious about Adam's new book, so he decided to see what it was a novel, so he opened the newspaper, and quickly turned to that page.

Sure enough, the novel called "The Witcher" was attached to the newspaper, and on that page there was a picture specially designed by Adam for the novel "The Witcher". The comics drawn fully reveal the chicness of the protagonist and the mystery and power of the wizard, making people eager to see how wonderful the content is.