My Favorite Superhero

Every time I go and visit a class or a school, there are few guaranteed questions I will receive.   The only one that is hard for me to answer is probably the one that seems easiest on the surface. 

What is the question??

 

“WHO IS YOUR FAVORITE SUPERHERO?”

 

That’s a tough one right?

 

Sure, I could just throw out a name.  I really like Batman, but that starts the  “is batman really a superhero?” debate.  Are we talking about favorite in general? In movies? In the comic books?  Its just way too difficult to properly answer in the allotted time. 

 

For example, when I was a kid and I actually read comic books and voraciously watched The Super Friends, my favorite here was The Green Lantern:

He was funny and cool and had a wildly creative power with the ring thing. 

 

But then, the story got weird and there was a Green Lantern Corps and all these alien guys and Hal Jordan was replaced.  I just couldn’t keep up with it. 

 

I battled through the Batman movies, the Spider-Man movies and anything else superhero I came across.  They were all great, but nothing I truly loved…until the last scene of the first of these movies:

“I am Iron Man” changed the game for me.   I was team Tony all the way.  New spin, new excitement, the promise of a whole world of Marvel superheroes not named Spider-Man or X-Men, was just too exciting. 

 

But alas, this cat showed up…

Another game changer.  Now superheroes are laugh out loud funny!  Yes please!

 

So I guess that’s a small look at my favorites, but then one remembers I write my own superhero characters.  They’re like practically my own children.  Of course I like them too!

 

I love the Bathroom Manager.  Also Fa Fa Floo Fly, Belcher, Marvelous Maid, The Comfort Crusader, how can I choose just one?

 

Its quite simple.  I can’t.  I simply love superheroes.

 

I guess that’s that.

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