Something Else About Heroes

I wrote last week about my increasing distaste for superhero stories, and then I came upon this interview with the late Octavia Butler, whose Patternist series I just reread. Discussing her 1979 novel Kindred, about a contemporary African-American woman who's mysteriously thrown back in time to antebellum Maryland and must try to survive as a slave, Butler explained why she wrote the book.What

Something Else About Heroes

I wrote last week about my increasing distaste for superhero stories, and then I came upon this interview with the late Octavia Butler, whose Patternist series I just reread. Discussing her 1979 novel Kindred, about a contemporary African-American woman who's mysteriously thrown back in time to antebellum Maryland and must try to survive as a slave, Butler explained why she wrote the book.What

The Human Pyramid

I've been working my way through Secret Identities: The Asian American Superhero Anthology (The New Press, 2009), edited by Jeff Yang, Parry Shen, Keith Chow, and Jerry Ma. I read a lot of superhero comics (along with other genres) as a kid in the early 1960s, and I think I understand their appeal to me now. Other readers may have had different reasons for liking them, for as I look back I see

The Human Pyramid

I've been working my way through Secret Identities: The Asian American Superhero Anthology (The New Press, 2009), edited by Jeff Yang, Parry Shen, Keith Chow, and Jerry Ma. I read a lot of superhero comics (along with other genres) as a kid in the early 1960s, and I think I understand their appeal to me now. Other readers may have had different reasons for liking them, for as I look back I see

Why am I attracted to guys in costumes so much? Especially spandex costumes. Even more so for guys that are captured and their costumes are being ripped off. Is it the geeky superhero side of me that I can't help it? For instance, there's a site that I found called www.herointrouble.com and it's pretty cool. There's a bunch of other sites out there too, but this one really caught my eye. Here's a

Why am I attracted to guys in costumes so much? Especially spandex costumes. Even more so for guys that are captured and their costumes are being ripped off. Is it the geeky superhero side of me that I can't help it? For instance, there's a site that I found called www.herointrouble.com and it's pretty cool. There's a bunch of other sites out there too, but this one really caught my eye. Here's a