I'm what?

So I was reading this review for a comic, Drax the Destroyer. Anyway, the reviewer was describing a character that sounded almost exactly like me: aloof, bright, bored, looking for entertainment, even manipulative. The exact text was:

What really sets this story apart is Cammi. She's not your typical kid who befriends an alien. Nothing fazes her, and she's not looking to make a friend or save the world. She just wants to be entertained. She's devoid of fear, of sadness and of conscience. She's too smart for her own good, and her new connection with Drax is like giving Cro Magnon man the A-bomb.

If you know me, you'll know that's almost exactly like me.

Now I'm a very vain person, and I have a somewhat different view on positive qualities. As in, I'd usually look at the above as strengths. Except the reviewer says that the above makes the character a...

Borderline sociopath.

So my personality is verging on sociopathic? And just the other day, my professor told me that I'm too cerebral, that I'm lacking in the sensorial, which is important if I want to be a good social worker. What she meant was that I think too much, but I don't really seem to feel a lot. Which does seem true, honestly speaking.

So I'm potentially/already a dangerous, conscience-less person focused solely on his own entertainment? Should I be concerned?

Maybe.

Am I actually concerned?

Not really.

Muy Sacrilegious

So I was going through one of the comic websites I frequent, and I came across this article on a Bible-inspired series from Vertigo (the makers of Sandman and Constantine). Suffice it to say said series won't be Vatican-recommended anytime soon. Or recommended by any other church for that matter. A choice excerpt:

“And there’s tons of sex magick in there, too, (in the Bible, that is) that no one likes to talk about but is completely apparent to anyone who bothers to read the words on the page. Abraham’s wife is a Temple Prostitute. Lot has sex with his daughters—and every messianic character comes from the offspring of that union. Moses has man-to-man sex up on Mount Sinai. God has fights with other Gods. There are monsters and giants praying to Astarte (basically Kali). There’s aliens having sex with the human women. I mean, you actually read the stuff and your jaw just drops. Abraham did what? And he’s a hero?!”

For those who wonder what Biblical passages Rushkoff (the series's writer) is referring to, he offers a few citations. “God of the Bible battles the other gods in some of the Psalms. Mordechai and Ester are based on the Persian Marduk and Astarte. Joshua was Moses’s apprentice, and the Bible talks of their encounters ‘face to face’—which, as any Greek knows, is the sexual position reserved for man-to-man sacred sex - women are to be done from behind.

“Lot has sex with his daughters because they fear his seed won’t continue. They get him drunk and lay with him. This incest actually leads all the way down to Christ.

“The Anakim giants pray to the goddess Astarte. Do a Bible search online for Anakim – they’re all over the place. The Horites are big giants, too.”

Sex magick eh? I don't know about Moses and Joshua; the Jews were as virulently anti-gay as any modern-day Christian church. But most of the rest of the stuff is true. Trust me, after spending the first eighteen years of my life blindly devoted to a church, I would know these things.

Read the rest. And you better believe I'm getting #1.