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silver age origin Last week Friday three inches of fluffy white snow fell to the ground in a matter of hours. Since this was the first significant snowfall of the season all of the local news channels were giving the usual cautions to be careful out on the roads. Personally I didn't mind the snow and missed it when it melted almost completely away by the next day. There wasn't enough time to enjoy it before it disappeared. I probably shouldn't be too concerned, because by the time that February gets here, snow will be less than exciting to me. At quarter to three this morning, a peal of thunder that lasted for fifteen seconds caught me by surprise as I was sitting in the cafeteria at work. I knew that it was raining outside, but that rumble was not something that I was expecting to hear. Now if this were July or August, I wouldn't have given it another thought, but this late in the year it seemed a little unusual to me. Short of an extended heat wave coming next, I don't think that there could have been a bigger contrast in weather in the space of thirty-six hours. Then again maybe this is what I should come to expect from Wisconsin during the month of November. ... A year ago Mark Waid and Leinil Francis Yu were given the task of retooling the origin of Superman. At the time, I didn't pay much attention to the book. I may have glanced through an issue as they came out, but that was as close as I came to buying a copy. Then later in the year as the series was coming to a close I bought the next to last issue. That one issue was enough to get me hooked. Waid had taken some of the elements of Smallville and melded them with the best of the Silver Age origin. I couldn't be happier with the end result. The Kents were competent instead of being cliches and Clark was far more aware of how the world viewed him as Superman. |