poor superman!

i know how he feels pity i don't have superpowers as consolation...

Bah! He and LL use the JLA's spacecraft to escape to a planet outside the influence of Earth's yellow sun. Problem solved!

always preferred Mon-El, anyway.

nicholas cage's son is called kal-el. that is all my knowledge of superman

i don't know much either - i never got into comics or superheroes. i have read some of larry niven's books - hence the essay

Mon-El

read a *lot* of comics as a kid.

there's a bit of a back story then... i assumed smallville and that lot was all made up just for tv

Seriously? I don't watch Smallville. I'll assume that some things were changed for it, but it definitely has history!

i've never watched it, just seen the odd trailer and know it's about superman as a kid. i never read any comics when i was younger,

spiderman, superman and all that i only know of from the recent films

Damn...

i've just never been into that sort of thing - superpowers and such - i like my fiction to be based in real science. men flying isn't

Think Batman. No superpowers, at all. But some of the best Bronze Age stories in comicdom.

Comics were important for me, in terms of learning to draw and tapping the imagination. Hence the "Damn".

i had rainbow comics when i was really little, no proper ones though

i think comics in general were/are bigger in the states. it certainly seems that way, you don't get comic stores or anything over here

i liked the new batman films

the only one i ever saw was in london, i got some graphic novels fro there once

but comics are definitely not big here

That when I was a kid, comics were sold in the grocery store, even in a town with a population of 537.

They're harder to find, here, now, than they were in the '70s.

we've nothing like that. aside from a few newspapers all our stores (supermarkets or newsagents) do is women's magazines. and in the

latter's case; porn.

We don't have newsagents. At least not anywhere that I've lived.

why such limited variety?

i've only ever seen porn in kebab shops round here, i bought some on my prom night

we have a dodgy newsagent, 2 sex shops and a video shop which does videos in a "back room".

i have no idea why there's such a limited amount of stuff about. they complain that kids can't read then dont give them access to anything

they might want to read

...like porn?

The Plurk is making me want to fun to the grocer's and pick up a new issue of Mad.

go on, then we'll let you is there much reading in porn? i've never read a porn magazine.

Depends on which mag...

ah, i guess playboy and those trying to be a bit more upmarket would have some. the newsagent just does what looks like very low market...

i don't think you're meant to get them for the articles

i used to read fhm and maxim for the articles. the pics were nice but not the main reason i bought them. told you i was odd.

doesn't think that's odd.

i wouldn't know, maybe all boys do that

the ones i know don't.

maybe you only know pervy ones

don't think so... the only 2 others who never seemed bothered were devout christians.

that maybe sparx104 is more intellectually-oriented than visually-oriented?

it does seem that way. and not just visually