KICKMAN

I had to go to Thesaurus.com to get more synonyms for “scared talk.”

So, most of my reading growing up was from comic books. Starting at about Uncanny X-Men #177 and reading both forward and backward from that point in the sacred timeline. So a lot of my vocabulary also came from comics. Back in those days there was both dialog and narration boxes and a lot more story got told in a single issue compared to modern comics. Kind of like the difference between a Marvel movie and a Marvel Disney+ series where about the same amount of events happen in 8 episodes. Silver Age comics, much more writing intensive, so even though most of my reading was from comics, I was still actually learning stuff.

Why do I bring this up now? Because, here we are, one more page to go to the end of this chapter, and I just now realized I spelled “scuttlebutt” wrong. It’s not my fault. Skuttlebutt was the name of Beta Ray Bill’s sentient spaceship from the pages of The Mighty Thor. So, they spelled it wrong first. I’m sure most of you probably assumed I spelled it with a “K” for Kickman. Or as a long-term setup to throw a “Skittish Skuttlebutt” dialog box into the page as a more whimsical alliteration device. But, no, I just thought it was spelled with a “K.”

Curse you, Thor!

Actually, now that I think about it, around that same time in the comics, Thor had an enemy named “Kurse.”

Son of a-!