Warning Pure Venom

I did this design really quickly. Ideas went flowing and I was quite satisfied with the results. I think it was Friday. On Sunday, somebody said me: - Are you going to the cinema? They're showing that movie about Spiderman, and it's Spiderman against Venom. - Versus who? Venom, oh my Gosh... hehe :-) the unconscious sometimes makes this kind of tricks. I love superheroes, their appearance, and I also think the're beneficial as a role-model. By the way, look at this quiz. It's great and quite entertaining, I loved it. I got 90% of Wonder Woman. Not really bad, isn't it? ;-) They say comparisons are usually hateful, but this one is really cool. I don't know much about Wonder Woman. I'll try to get some info. I admire comic illustrators. In fact, my favorite one is the Peruvian Boris Vallejo, who shows beautiful and strong dark haired women instead of the so seen stereotype of fragile women. I always thought that having a myth or hero is really a benefit for oneself. You try to have a role-model and try to reach his merits. Up the mythomaniacs!!! I can tell something about famous mythomaniacs. For example, Alexander the Great, whose favorite book was the Iliad. By trying to emulate his heroes he conquered the entire known world. Without Alexander the Great, the world had not become as we know it. His conquers were the medium to spread the culture that came after him. Later on after him, it came a long chain of people who admired him, and tried to go beyond. They all got great things. (As a curious note, they say Alexander had a long blond hair, like the medieval myth of the blue prince. His personality inspired the ideal of the medieval knights: tell the truth, be brave, seek justice, be compassionate. ) For those willing to know about Alexander, I recommend to read Plutarch, Arrian or Quintus Curtius Rufus, as those are the original sources about him. The rest of writers, the modern writers, they actually write based on other people's writings. Soy they deform the reality until the person they talk about is not the same. Same with annotations of the translators in many books. Historic novels have the risk to make it hard to distinguish fiction and reality. And sometimes, we get a mistaken vision of reality. Another mythomaniac was Julius Caesar, who idealized the figure of Alexander the Great. Julius Caesar was a wealthy patrician -not too much- with poor health but with a strong spirit. He had everything against him, and was very unlucky. (Not as Alexander, who was really fortunate; Arrian tells how a crossbow dart hit him in one of his lungs, but not killed him) He was not as strong as Alexander, nor as healthy, nor was the son of a king. But nothing could make him surrender. His admiration for Alexander made him stronger and determined. In one of Plutarch stories it's told that Julius Caesar was in a tent in Hispania. He was crying because he had the age of Alexander when he died, and Julius had not begun to conquer his empire yet. But after that, this great mithomaniac called Caesar wrote his lifetime through centuries and was remembered for ages until now. Another famous mithomaniac, Cristobal Colon, was all his life and childhood reading about the adventures of Marco Polo. He dreamed to do long journeys, and meet unknown cultures. That bring him to the Spanish court of Isabel the Catholic Queen, and Fernando the Catholic. After knocking several doors, he was able to make Isabel -who was a hard and strict queen- finance his journey to India. What did he told her that made Isabel sold her jewels for this unknown guy -Cristobal Colon- that in a slip discovered America? And the last mithomaniac we can tell: Napoleon, whose idol was Julius Caesar. Let us all have myths, and let's want to go beyond them. Let's have heroes. Maybe they take us beyond we never dreamed. Let us be daydreaming and maybe some day someone would like to emulate us in a distant place. -Emma Alvarez- © 2008 by Emma Alvarez. Link to this post without copying the text. If you liked this post, subscribe to Emma Alvarez Site or give yourself a gift Stumble it! Add me to your del.icio.us network