'Spawn' was my favorite growing up, but I loved 'X-Men' and the 'Hulk' too.
I wasn't aware of Green Arrow as a kid. My thing growing up was wrestling.
I grew up with Batman and Superman but definitely in a cartoon and a movie kind of way. I was familiar with DC superheroes. I didn't know much about The Flash or anything about Iris West!
I found out that I am a DC fan. I thought I was a Marvel fan because I didn't know. I found out that all of my favorite heroes and villains are DC characters, and I get to play one.
I grew up really being a comic book geek, and that was a really big part of my childhood.
Outside the ring, I am a huge Marvel fan and don't hide my overwhelming nerd-dom by any means.
I actually grew up watching a lot of these cartoons - a lot of the animated series. 'Batman: The Animated Series,' 'Justice League,' all the stuff that would come onto Cartoon Network.
The general public has been conditioned to think 'comics = superheroes' for as long as caped crusaders have been around - by critics, mass media, and Marvel and DC themselves, who have what you might call a vested interest.
The main fear comes from playing a character that so many people know from the comic books, and there's a long history of people unhappy with movies and TV shows who make alterations to comic book characters.
In their heyday, comics were a dominant force in popular culture, but that's over.
