Let me start off by saying Happy 9^th Anniversary to my Sweets. I’ve made a lot of mistakes, I have a few issues, yet she stands by me and continues to believe in me. She has watched pro wrestling with me, she’s even dawned make-up and joined me for my first Comic Con. And for all that, and many other things, I am forever grateful.

To celebrate, something we haven’t ever really done in previous years, we traveled to The R.O.M. (Royal Ontario Museum) in Toronto. Our daughter and myself had never been (that I can remember anyhow), and my Sweets is fascinated by most of the stuff. The R.O.M. has held the traveling exhibits such as Tim Burton’s. I would have liked to have seen that one for sure. But, being my first time, I was content with what they had. Unfortunately for me, my I.B.S. decided to act up so I didn’t get to really enjoy some of the stuff. I missed the cool rocks, fossils and minerals. This disappointed me as I forgot to see if they had any Kryptonite. Yes, I just said that. Apparently the scientific mumbo jumbo they made up for Kryptonite was recently discovered and it is not green, nor blue, nope on red. The piece of rock that hands Superman his arse is actually, white. No word on if it affects any super humans at the moment ahaha!

Some of the things the surprised me, some captivated me a little bit and some simply didn’t catch my interest. For a boring example, way too many dishes on display, really ancient stuff I get, but majority of it looked the same. Having never seen dinosaur exhibits in person, I was quite surprised at the sheer size of the pterodactyl. Jurassic Park films didn’t do this flying beast justice at all, it could eat me whole in one bite as I am only the size of the beak. I was also surprised at how short Samurai were, I knew that people were shorter the further back in time that we go. A group of Samurai would appear like children or pre-teens against a professional sports team. They’d still own ass, but still the height difference is what it is. The samurai armour and swords were one of the things on display that caught my attention, but also there was the Giant Sloth. Even from a distance this thing caught my eye, looking as though it was flexing, and even though it was just in skeletal form, it was massive. I figure add layers of muscle, skin and fur and it would have been Beast Man from He-Man juiced up on Batman enemy Bane’s Venom. Today’s sloth is about the size of what this thing would have crapped out.

The highlight of the journey for me was The Bat Cave. Yes, The Bat Cave. Your typical exhibit I would assume (again first time), but what put the icing on the cake for me was it came equipped with a giant Batman picture done by one of my favourite artists/writers, Andy Kubert. It also helped that my Nerdy was excited about the cave exhibit since my Sweets told her about it a few days ago. She was excited because like me, she hears Bat Cave, she thinks Batman ahaha!

I was thinking slash wondering, if comic books have ever used history as a guide or inspiration for story ideas. I know there are characters such as Maxie Zeus from Batman’s rogue gallery, and King Tut for the 60’s television show (was he in the books?), but I mean take a story from the worlds history, whether it be a single person or an event, and put their own spin on things, or make it up to date. If they haven’t perhaps they should, one of the things I noticed and made me appreciate The R.O.M. as the exhibits covered many cultures. Which is nice as Canada is made of many cultures, and Toronto is home to many of them and is obviously a main tourist spot . So, people can still go learn and see things from their home countries history. The culture that the peeps I noticed who took the time to appreciate the cultural histories happened to coincide with what they were reading and admiring.