Mike Greear is a street-walking cheetah with a heart full of napalm. More or less. He mostly just enjoys ruining adult conversations with his thoughts on how Batman has parallels to Buddhism or which way Captain America would vote in the current election cycle. Basically take any sort of mature, real-world topic of any kind of intellectual relevance, and Mike Greear can reduce it to something involving Spider-Man, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles or Doctor Who. It’s practically a mutant ability. See? It’s happening already.

Lately, when he’s not spending way more time than any 27-year-old male should spend staring at Steve Ditko’s brush strokes in the first 38 issues of The Amazing Spider-Man, he enjoys reading early 20th century science-fiction, learning about science and mythology, watching Bollywood movies and not eating meat. He is a college graduate with a Bachelor’s degree in journalism (and a minor in art), and while he is still able to find work from time to time in the waning field of daily newspaper journalism, he hopes to soon move on to having more creative forms of writing published.

His favorite comic book titles at the moment include “The Amazing Spider-Man,” “Batman,” “Wolverine and The X-Men,” “Wonder Woman,” “League of Extraordinary Gentlemen,” “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,” and “Ultimate Comics Spider-Man.” His favorite writers are Alan Moore and Grant Morrison because they make him feel smart when he reads their work. His favorite artists are Steve Ditko, Jack Kirby, Frank Quitely and Osamu Tezuka.

Although he wrote this biography while staying in the panhandle of Florida, but by the team you read it he’ll probably be living somewhere else.