Word: superheroics
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...refuse of your teeming shore," she asks for underdogs. Horatio Alger, Class of 1852, spent his life writing about underdogs. And then there's "The Underdog Show," a cartoon that first appeared in the late 1960s, in which the lowest of the low (Shoeshine Boy) transforms into an unlikely superhero--a small, cute, furry dog who spends his time, as the memorable theme song goes, "fighting those who rob and plunder" with "speed of lightning, roar of thunder...
...mullet vocabulary, mullet classification and porn mullets (for the mature breed of mullet enthusiast). Soon thereafter, a friend bestowed upon Malliaris a book entitled The Mullet: Hairstyle of the Gods, which tackled advanced areas of mulletology such as the aerodynamics of the mullet and the emergence of mythical superhero Mulletman...
...Louieis Superette, a large sign on the fifth floor of Leverett Towers exclaims, iTHE FOZ.i Who is this mysterious Foz? A person? A superhero? A new member of the Wu-Tang clan...
...much media today, the strategy for success in online comics is cross-pollination, licensing and alliances. Viewers will watch webisodes for free, but the fledgling company hopes to strike deals for video games, books and TV series, and is working on the apotheosis of today's superhero: theme-park rides. The company has signed with Acme City, a website owned by TIME's parent company, Time Warner. And in a particularly odd cross-media teaming, Lee will create print comics and webisodes starring the Backstreet Boys. (Dare we dream of a death match with 'N Sync?) "There...
...plan works, it won't be the first time Lee has remade his trade. Before Lee, being a superhero was pretty straightforward: good was good, evil was evil, and neither was very self-aware. But Lee conceptualized characters, like the Hulk and the Thing, who were literally uncomfortable in their own skins, reluctant superheroes who didn't always feel or act nobly. For his creations, being a superhero was a job; one Spider-Man found Spidey trying unsuccessfully to cash a check in his name (no id). With humor and an ear for the vernacular ("It's clobberin' time...