Crisis Counseling - 01/09/06

A new Crisis Counseling is up over at DC, but, as if you might not have guessed, I'm still backlogged.

Why, you ask?

Well, it's not for a lack of dorkery. I've been reading a novel by Tom De Haven call It's Superman! that's been taking up most of my down time. It's quite good and I whole heartedly recommend it to anyone who has even a moderate interest in the "Man of Steel."

Here's a quick description from Amazon:

De Haven's Derby Dugan trilogy--Funny Papers, 1988; Derby Dugan's Depression FunniesDugan under Ground, 2001--presaged Michael Chabon's Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (2000) and outdid it by encompassing the history of comics from early newspaper strips to the undergrounds of the sixties. De Haven now undertakes an authorized re-imagining of the early years of Superman. De Haven convincingly and touchingly depicts the young Clark Kent's apprehensions and insecurities as he comes to terms with his extraordinary abilities in 1930s rural Kansas. Concurrently, he tracks Lois Lane's beginnings in journalism and the plotting for power of New York City political boss Lex Luthor (no "Metropolis" masquerade here). While hewing to the basic outline of the venerable Superman mythos--his intergalactic background, his straight-arrow upbringing in Smallville, and his blue-and-red costume--De Haven finds ways to make even its more outlandish elements work. If it doesn't quite transcend its origins, De Haven's novel shows that, nearly 70 years after his creation, the Man of Steel still has plenty to offer.

Anywho, until later, peace, yo.

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