Origin Story
Who am I? You sure you want to know?
The story of my life is not for the faint of heart. If somebody said it was a happy little tale... If somebody told you I was just your average ordinary guy, not a care in the world... Somebody lied.
(KIDDING! That’s Spider-Man’s opening to his origin story—ours isn’t as dramatic and is MUCH HAPPIER. But Spidey was there!
And Batman, and Invincible, and Darth Vader…)
It All Started on New Comic Book Day
Every Wednesday is New Comic Book Day at the local comic shops. After graduating college, Jenn moved back to NH for a short period of time and picked up some part time work at Newbury Comics. Every Wednesday was always hectic and filled with stressful customers picking up the books from their subscription folder, but during his lunch breaks, Dominic would pop in pleasantly to pick up his comics, always sporting a purple button down shirt (an inside joke with one of his co-workers that would become a memorable look).
From mid 2017 to 2019, small pleasantries would be exchanged between Jenn and Dom, but it wasn’t until the beginning of 2021 when they would get to know each other beyond the checkout counter.
Jenn was living in Chicago when things were changing fast due to the…”panini” (IYKYK). In late 2020, she decided to spend a couple months living in NH to be closer to family during the holidays, but also needing time away from them, so she decided to help out part time at Newbury for their holiday season.
It was a busy day at the store when Jenn and Dom stumbled into each other again, over a year since their last encounter. They pleasantly and casually chatted just as they did years before, but it wasn’t until some impulsive social media snooping, they learned they had more shared interests than they thought. As their conversations became more in depth, Jenn quickly started to get excited each time she saw Dominic come into the store, and Dominic was making his comic book trips more frequently than his usual Wednesday appearance. It was then they decided to take their conversations outside the store. It was tough to date in the middle of a… “panorama” (IYKYK) but they made it work via long car ride cruising sharing music and chatting about video games they each needed to check out. But the real test of this “meet cute” was the reality that Jenn lived in Chicago and was moving back to her home mid January 2021.
Even 1030 miles apart, Jenn and Dom could not stop chatting. Eventually 8 hour Discord calls (yes, they were 8-hour, one sitting Discord calls, we CHECKED THE BACKLOG!) turned into visits once a month to either Chicago or NH, and then in August 2021, Dominic made the BIG MOVE to move in with Jenn in her Chicago apartment. In March 2022, they moved into the first apartment they called “theirs” in the Logan Square neighborhood in Chicago. After three and a half years together, Dominic proposed on a beautiful Saturday in the park in Chinatown after spending the afternoon with Jenn doing one of their favorite activities together—drinking boba tea and listening to Porter Robinson via a shared wired pair of earbuds.
Currently, as of August 2025, Jenn and Dom (and Ed—she’s been there the whole time btw and if you made it this far in reading our sappy love story, she says “HI! :P”) live happy and spooky (but spooky in a good way) in Salem, MA.