DC Comic

February 28, 2018

“Look, up in the sky. It’s absurd; it’s so lame; it’s stupor man.” Tuesday was always the best day of the summer growing up because that was the day when the new issues of the superhero comic books came out. Superman, Batman, The Flash, Green Lantern, and Wonder Woman led the list for DC Comics. Marvel was just getting started. I would spend the day reading them all from cover to cover. My favorite was The Flash, but don’t ask me why. Now we have our own DC Comic in the White House.

We have a 71 year old president, surrounded by Secret Service, who never exercises, is clinically obese, and suffers from debilitating bone spurs, yet now claims that he would have entered the Parkland school building unarmed to confront the shooter with an AR-15 rifle. The utter vulgarity of this claim is mind-boggling. I guess the only thing that will stop a bad guy with a gun is a moron without a gun. What super power does he have! Only Superman is impermeable to bullets. Batman has gadgets to protect him. The Flash can out run them. Wonder Woman has a rope. Is his hair so plastered down that it provides protection? Does he have a magic golf club! Can he confuse the shooter with an unending stream of BS? Maybe he really is the Teflon Don?

Today is my birthday. I have been fortunate to have had 67 others, and, god willing, I will have many more. The victims in Florida have had their last. We do not need superheroes. We need ordinary, everyday, mundane heroes like the kids we have all been seeing on TV. Gun safety and control are serious issues. They need to be discussed seriously by serious people. They are not the stuff of comic book heroes.