I did read the Beano though lol.
I have hundreds dating back to when the comic sold for 2D, before even the English Penny.
As child, best friends we loved the weekly Beanos.
I never got into the Dandy. But I would if I did it all again, I like how Desperate Dan lives.
Happy, big, strong, comfortable. Always eating pies.
But I always recognised who has the best of the best. The greatest superbero IMO.
Makes Neo look like an amoeba.
Billy Whizz. He cannot lose. He doesn't even need the superpower of pausing time.
He's invincible. Can avhieve, do, anything in a split second.
So I did eventually turn my nose into a few books and websites, from 2005 and Lyme. It was vital to study, research, uncover and learn, in order to make sense, survive and heal.
Loads of food diet & nutritional stuff intially. I learnt a few things.
But until then, I remember that I had this belief or feeling that I was somehow preserving my own individuality by not reading everything everybody else was saying and reciprocating and having it impress upon my imagination.
I remember speaking with a friendly builder when working on a building site 21 years ago and he found my attitude strange here and insisted that there was so much to be gained from reading books while I presented my case that I am preserving my own unique thought processes and imagination.
I can actually see it from both angles now and I do genuinely feel that by having taken that path I developed in a different way more freely mentally without blocking the possibility to learn later on in life.
So you see I really am actually very uneducated.