Leveraged Intelligence

You Call Yourself What???

For our continuing examination of the Man of Steel…

Superman’s Greatest Nemesis – The Mundane!

The interesting challenges are easier…

The 60’s man – as contributed by Ramana Rajgopaul!

And, while Superman and his friend think the solutions are marital, Batman sees them as technical…

My good friend GL Hoffman has a great series going over at What Would Dad Say  with a new way that he is diagramming ideas – and he sent me one that fits perfectly with our loose theme over here:

But…this one is wickedly subtle…and hilarious:

Happy 50th Barbie

My sister sent this to me to make the situation a bit more reality based.

And Jean Browman has requested an aging Superman, so I give you:

the aging superman.  He’s done with us hassling him.

Like a retired cop, he just wants to curl up with his favorite pastry and let the world take care of its own problems for awhile…

Manchester: Standing for Truth, Justice and the American Way!

my little superman Originally uploaded by David M. Zuber

When we lived in our Manchester apartment, my mother made a cape for me from a red scarf. It was the cape of my favorite superhero, the only REAL superhero – Superman! I flew all over the apartment with hands out front and my cape flowing behind. As I flew, I made those “whooshing” sounds like they had on TV.

The beauty and magic of childhood is that ability to “become” the character you are emulating.  When you make believe, you do it with all your heart.  I had X-Ray vision, was invulnerable, could fly, had super strength.

Later, it was the comic books.  Again, Superman led the way!  For a dime, you had a treasure to be read over and over.  You could read it in your room, on the couch, sitting under a tree, sitting in a swing… And you were transported into their super world, totally into your new surroundings!

Then you become an adult!  End of fun, right?  No way!  You know me better than that.  It just doesn’t give me the same buzz running around with a scarf tied around my neck saying “Whoosh!” if you know what I mean.  But, what does turn my crank is imagining what it would be like to have Superman grow up in our world, our world as we find it.  Not with super villains to confront, but with our everyday concerns.  Along those lines, I have a series of questions to ask you about what Superman might be like in our world and I would love to hear some of your ideas:

Would he dismantle Al Qaeda?
Would he make the North Korean missile moot?
What relationship would he have to world leaders?  Would he go to the G20 Summit?
Would he force an end to armed conflicts as people started them?
Would people get to point of saying it was "just" Superman flying up there?
Would his "job" ultimately bore the crap out of him?
What would his religious beliefs be like?
Would he endorse political candidates?
Would he have an audience with the Pope?  Would the Pope have an audience with Superman?
Would he support positive technologies?
Would he have causes that he backed?
Would he be willing to kill one or some to save many?
Would he identify as American or take more of a global identity?  He has a super brain. Would he invent things?

What do you think, gang?  Have at it and I’ll jump in with you!

Addendum: I just have to throw this in, because it is so funny for this topic: