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Matches Malone

(E.I.C., King Shit of Fuck Mountain, Minister of Propaganda)

Matches’ life was changed forever when he was seven years old and read Batman #404.

His tiny mind was shattered by the power and poetry contained in the innocuous Batman story he had bought for a mere 75 cents. Never before had he imagined a comic book would leave him speechless and affected; thinking about what he had just read, his opinion of Batman was changed forever, that much was certain, but more so, his opinion of comic books as a medium had been forever subverted.

This started him down the road of lifelong geekdom and to this day he still obsessively buys Bat-family books.

• Describe yourself in three words:

World’s greatest defective.

• Who is your favorite superhero?

BATMAN!!

• What was the first comic book you ever read?

That’s tricky – I can say for certain the first one I ever picked out myself and read was Web of Spider-Man #32 (That cover still sends shivers of badassery down my spine to this day)