Another spot on piece. Everything you say resonates so deeply with me. As a kid my favourite superheroes were found in the works of Robert E. Howard and Edgar Rice Burroughs, characters like Conan the Barbarian and Tarzan and later on comic characters like Batman and Iron Man. Simply because they didn’t have super abilities. They were ju…
Another spot on piece. Everything you say resonates so deeply with me. As a kid my favourite superheroes were found in the works of Robert E. Howard and Edgar Rice Burroughs, characters like Conan the Barbarian and Tarzan and later on comic characters like Batman and Iron Man. Simply because they didn’t have super abilities. They were just ordinary men in extra ordinary situations that allowed them to grow to their full potential.
I always knew there was no way I’d be able to leap tall buildings in a single bound, but there was some part of Batman, of Tarzan, and of Conan that was in some small part attainable, and that made them all the more real for me.
I was similar, with the exception of my three favorite X-Men....Colossus, Nightcrawler, and Wolverine. I wanted to be one of them, OR a combination of all three -- which to me would have been the ultimate male hero.
...but when you said, "...because they didn’t have super abilities," I remembered all the TTRPGs I played and always loved heightened intelligence as the power I wanted, because then, IF you had the correct backgrounds, you could do ANYthing.
You had ALL the superpowers.
Thanks for your feedback, Jon.
I think you're going to enjoy this whole series. The 12 articles are complete and being edited and prepped, so the whole series will happen to the comclusion.
Hopefully I'll be able to encourage people to write more deep fiction to expand the imaginations of readers...
Another spot on piece. Everything you say resonates so deeply with me. As a kid my favourite superheroes were found in the works of Robert E. Howard and Edgar Rice Burroughs, characters like Conan the Barbarian and Tarzan and later on comic characters like Batman and Iron Man. Simply because they didn’t have super abilities. They were just ordinary men in extra ordinary situations that allowed them to grow to their full potential.
I always knew there was no way I’d be able to leap tall buildings in a single bound, but there was some part of Batman, of Tarzan, and of Conan that was in some small part attainable, and that made them all the more real for me.
I was similar, with the exception of my three favorite X-Men....Colossus, Nightcrawler, and Wolverine. I wanted to be one of them, OR a combination of all three -- which to me would have been the ultimate male hero.
...but when you said, "...because they didn’t have super abilities," I remembered all the TTRPGs I played and always loved heightened intelligence as the power I wanted, because then, IF you had the correct backgrounds, you could do ANYthing.
You had ALL the superpowers.
Thanks for your feedback, Jon.
I think you're going to enjoy this whole series. The 12 articles are complete and being edited and prepped, so the whole series will happen to the comclusion.
Hopefully I'll be able to encourage people to write more deep fiction to expand the imaginations of readers...