The Giggity Goobers

  Throughout my years in middle school, my favorite genre was mystery novels. Nothing would be more exciting than the end of a thriller you've been reading for a week. Many authors have great murder mystery novels, but nothing beats my favorite, Agatha Christie. You have probably heard of her, if not you live under a rock. She is the highest-selling fiction writer, selling over 2 billion copies of books. So every week of reading in class would be about who killed Anthony Marston, Lord Edgware, and Samuel Rachett (these are some of the murder victims in her novels.) So here is a little teaser of one of my favorite mystery novels written by Agatha Christie Cards on the Table. For some background reference, Hercule Poirot is a world detective in the early 1900s, after being a police officer for several years. The story starts with Mr. Shaitana, a very famous party host, inviting many different people, such as Poirot's fellow guests including three other crime professionals: secr

       I've been reading Spider-Man comics lately. Throughout many of them the idea of "Anyone can read the mask" has some up many times. In this blog I want to explore that idea more.     I recently read Spider-Man Noir which is an alternate version of Spider-Man from the WWII period. Even though he's not our usual friendly neighborhood Peter Parker, he's Spider-Man nonetheless. He beats up Nazi's instead of common crooks but the idea of "Great power comes great responsibility" remains the same.     Spider-Ham is another instance of an alternate Spider-Man. He was a spider that got bitten by a radioactive pig and turned into a pig with spider abilities. He's inspired by cartoons such as Loony Tunes or Tom and Jerry. He's not even a human and yet he's still a hero to those around him. This drives the point that anyone can wear the mask.     Lastly I'd like to talk about my favorite Spider-Man variant, Miles Morales. This was one of th