After winning a National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction and a ton of other year-end accolades in 2007, Juno Diaz’s great, very justifiably celebrated The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, the story of a Dominican family living in New Jersey, just garnered itself a much-deserved Pulitzer.

Why should you be concerned? Because besides being an amazing read, part of the novel is one of the greatest depictions of stereotypical late 20th-century geekery yet accomplished. In the first 25 pages alone there are legitimate loving references to Darkseid, Galactus, Stephen King’s The Stand, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Gary Gygax, the X-Men, Robotech, the Watcher, Bradbury…

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