Have you seen this? As my friend Nathan writes, it’s required watching for the Cape and Cowl set:
But what’s the point? I think it’s all of the following, in order of least to most cynical:
To remind us, as the video says, that Superman is Clark – he is Everyman. We [...]
I got a rejection letter with a bonus today. It was a company to which I had applied to work writing some documentation; while I didn’t make their final cut for interviews, the person who wrote the email said that the intriguing reviews of my novel inspired her to order it. So one more sale, [...]
I have three “in-general” theories about why folks like superheros:
Theory One: I like Good vs. Evil fights because they are so much simpler than the slings and arrows of slogging through every day. Superhero fiction usually revolves around battles between Good and Evil. Even when the line between them starts to gray, redemption lies in [...]
