Aging & Wisdom Quote by Rob Walton

Rob Walton’s line lands like a locker-room confession filtered through fandom: he’s not claiming originality, he’s claiming lineage. “Everything I’ve done” frames his career as a highlight reel, but the punch is the comparison to “an old Marvel comic” - not the glossy, cinematic MCU era, the dog-eared back issues. That choice matters. Old Marvel implies pulp energy, serialized struggle, melodrama with rules: you get knocked down, you mutate, you come back with a new mask and a new flaw.

The phrasing “in its own way” is a sly hedge that also does real work. It protects him from sounding self-mythologizing while still inviting the myth. Athletes are constantly turned into characters by media and fans anyway; Walton flips the script and narrates himself as a collection of issues, arcs, and retcons. Wins are origin stories. Injuries are dark turns. Comebacks are crossovers. Even the “everything” suggests he’s folding the unglamorous parts - training monotony, public scrutiny, bad seasons - into the same narrative logic that makes comics addictive: continuity.

There’s subtext about control, too. Comics give you a structure for chaos: panels, frames, villains with names. Sports careers are messier, often decided by a ligament or a coach’s whim. By likening his life to Marvel, Walton implies he’s found a way to read randomness as plot. It’s less about being a superhero than about surviving like one: absorbing hits, carrying contradictions, and staying interesting across seasons.