It's not the best story ever told, but it's a hell of an intro to pop in the best selling book of all time with roughly 5 billion out the door. Compelling as that may be, my religion introduced me to a baby flying in a pod from planet Vegeta with the intentions of taking over the world. These are two very different settings, but both matter to me in critical ways. One told stories that would later be remade into greater symbolic works and influenced us for generations to come