Family Crest

I've joked around about doing this before, but I think now I've finally decided that I'm going to design a family crest. There really is no need for me to design one, but I think having a family crest would be rather awesome.

There are really three reasons that have lead up to me wanting to design one.

#1: As a huge comic book fan, I love superhero symbols; Superman's "S Shield", Batman's "Bat-Symbol", etc. I love the iconography and childhood wonder they represent. There's no reason a family crest couldn't do the same, right?


#2: A friend of mine has his family's crest tattooed on his forearm, and I have to admit that I'm a little jealous over the fact that his family has one. I don't handle jealously well.

#3: Recent Superman mythos have revealed that Superman's "S Shield" is in fact the family crest of the House of El, and that are many other Kryptonian crests.

That last point was what really sold it for me, "You mean I can have a family crest AND have it be like a superhero symbol?!" You don't need to tell me twice.

Thus, I am on my quest to find a family crest; and I'm serious about it. I have a lot of research to do on my family history, but I'm confident it'll end with me designing a great crest.

However, whether or not anyone else in my family adopts it, or if it lives on beyond my death, is a whole other story.