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watching the underworld If I had to choose a motto for my life as of late, I think that I would go with the phrase busy but good. Here are some of the most recent highlights. I've been with someone for a year, which is new for me. Work bothers me less and less. Spring break is next week and I'll be back in Europe come May. ... The latest storyline running through the Superman books is called Godfall and I love it. At the moment, Kal-El is back with people of his own race and is happily married to a woman named Lyla. He has no powers and is a low level government official. Life is completely ordinary for him until one day when a ray of yellow sunlight hits him. Then everything changes. I have no idea where this story is going and that's what makes it work for me. It seems fresh even though the events may not last that long once the story is over. I like it when a character is taken outside of his or her normal environment. For example, not having to see the Daily Planet is a definite plus for me, because that has to be the most annoying element of the Superman myth second only to some of his arch enemies. I can see the need for him having a job of sort, but the whole newspaper angle has always made me cringe. I'd almost prefer to see him as a farmer in Kansas. About the only thing that I will speculate is that all of things happening to Kal-El may not be on the planet Krypton, but may be in Kandor. I am forming this theory by the last panel in the second installment of the story arc. One can see that all of the events seem to originate from a shrunken city and the last that I knew Kandor used to fit that description. I could be wrong of course and I'll keep reading until I get an answer. |