This Is Us

On Keeping a Comic Book

Reading these little-loved X-Men comics brings my pre-teen self back to life. I don’t always like him.

Get in the water, you little dweeb. Photo by Ben White on Unsplash

For a long time — say, from age twenty-two to thirty-six — I did not think about anything that happened when I was a teenager. I wasn’t repressing memories. I knew everything that had taken place, in a dry…