Sometimes you wear the cape and sometimes you’re… Jimmy Olson. From Wikipedia: James Bartholomew “Jimmy” Olsen is a fictional character who appears mainly in DC Comics’ Superman stories. Olsen is a young photojournalist working for the Daily Planet. He is close friends with Lois Lane and Clark Kent/Superman, and has a good working relationship with…
For this installment in the Abecedary of Cape-Wearing, I will focus on the enemy. I typically avoid enemy and villain talk for a few reasons. Mostly, I prefer to not give airtime to the negative. Also, I don’t want to spend my time writing about the things that bother me. I know there are plenty of truly…
This week I had a few opportunities to appreciate integrity in new ways, and it became a New Favorite Things Friday List in my head. Integrity isn’t exactly a new favorite thing, I’ve always been a fan, as most of us are, but this week I had a couple of opportunities to see integrity in…
Yes, behavior does lead to consequence—no doubt about it. In schools, though, it can be too easy to apply a consequence that doesn’t match the behavior, doesn’t teach the desired behavior, and doesn’t have any impact on the journey of our littlest heroes.
Okay tootsies… it’s time to get down with some philosophy up in the blogosphere. As I reach the almost halfway mark of the Abecedary of Cape-Wearing with the letter L. L is for the Law of Unintended Consequences Here are some quick definitions: –events and/or actions that result from the implementation of a law of…
Kal-El was a boy on the planet Krypton without special powers. Due to a brief ride through space, and a shift in gravity, he was graced with incredible strength and some laser vision and became what we know as Superman. But as Kal-El—is he a superhero?
J is for the Justice Society of America. The JSA is referenced as the first team of superheroes in DC comic books—introduced in World War II alongside the All-Star Squadron. In case you’re curious about the history and the subsequent link to the currently-known JAL, the video below is pretty interesting:
For more of the Abecedary of Cape-Wearing click here. I struggled with this one. I didn’t want to go for the obvious. I wanted to pick something witty, pithy, or surprising.I even started writing a different post. But here’s the deal. The Hulk deserves a post. The Hulk with the incredible-ness, I mean. A few years ago, while…
Superheroes are helpful. It’s sort of their job. They help ladies in distress on a regular basis. They help save bus-fulls of innocent victims from certain death. They save folks who inadvertently fall off tall buildings. And they save cities and planets from evil-doers and imminent destruction. Some superheroes wage an internal battle with their…
“With great power comes great responsibility.”
–Stan Lee (or Voltaire or the Torah)
Wear The Cape 