HOW I SPENT MY 30TH BIRTHDAY, 30 YEARS AGO TODAY

Recovering after my right hip was put into my left forearm. The most intense pain I'll ever know.

JOE BIDEN AND ME: 05 SEPT 89

I had plates in my arm after getting hit by the car in March of 1989. They broke and new ones were put in. They broke again in September, so while Joe Biden was on CNN talking about whatever was going on at the time, I had had part of my right hip put into my left forearm. But they couldn't do a lot, I still have a big deadspace there.

THE CENTRAL PARK FIVE: WHERE I WAS

I just finished watching WHEN THEY SEE US on Netflix, and while hard to watch, I knew going in that the five had long been exonerated of the crime and had received monies from the state of New York. But it happened in 1989. The attack on the jogger happened on April 19th, exactly a month and a day after I was hit by the car. I'm really hating this year. This anniversary. Half of my life in a reconstructed body. Too many reminders, some I had forgotten about. I knew this attack happened in 1989, because I was in the hospital, I just forgot how close it was to the accident. Damn this world.

ANIMAL MAN AS IT APPEARED THE MONTH I WAS HIT BY THE CAR, LOOK FAMILIAR?

So Grant Morrison's first real work fort DC was on a 26 issue run on ANIMAL MAN, a C-lister from a few STRANGE ADVENTURES comics in the 60s. The 30th Anniversary Book One edition came out a few weeks back, and, of course, 30 years is the anniversary of my getting hit by that car, as well.  The run itself deconstructed the character, literally, and by the end,Animal knew he was a character in some other reality because he couldnm't possibly be the same guy from the 60s.

Anyhow, we have here the two covers for the current book and the release of the three trades, then the original trade from the 90s, and the best comic story every written, "The Coyote Gospel", ending with the cover of this issue that was on the stands when I was hit by the car. Me being torn apart. Everything connects. What happened happened.