Before I was ever a movie nerd, I was a comic book
nerd. In fact, you can say that I was destined to be one. When I was in utero,
my parents believed that I was going to be a girl. My brother, Arik, how was
seven at the time, held on to the hope that I would be a boy. An active comic
book reader, himself, he struck up a deal with my dad to name me if I was a
boy. At the time, Arik’s favorite comic book character was
