Sean's Journal
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I blame Superman for this. Not Superman directly, but the whole Superman comic. Let's think about this for a minute. Superman is an alien. I will never be an alien (unless I visit some far off world). Superman has super strength, super vision, super speed, heat ray, etc. I don't. Lex Luthor on the other hand is an Earthling. I'm an Earthling. Lex Luthor doesn't have any super powers at all. Nor do I. Lex Luthor is Superman's greatest foe. See the trap I've fallen in? I know I can't be Superman, but I could be Lex Luthor. Okay, I could be Perry White or Jimmy, but lets be honest - does anyone really look at Perry White or Jimmy and think, 'When I want to grow up, I want Superman to have so constantly save my ass'?

Lex, with his homegrown talent is able to put the greatest of heroes through is paces. Of course I always thought Batman would have been able to deal with Lex effectively. Which leads me into a different trap. Batman is the tortured hero. Batman is 'of the night', Batman inherited all his money. I had an icky childhood, but nothing traumatic. In my early twenties I didn't break a sweat over staying out until 4am and going to work the next day, but now - sheesh, its a miracle if I can stay awake until 10pm. And lets face it, I'm poor was dirt and I don't see that changing anytime soon. When I was 24 I dated a 32 year old woman and she seemed like she had everything put together - a stock portfolio, tons of money in savings, and no fear about not making rent. I'm 31 and I have a 401k that loses money each quarter and tens of thousands of debt due to student loans.

I think the path of villain is really the only path comic books left open for me. Unless I get bit by a radioactive spider. Knowing my luck I will ingest a gamma radiated pinto bean and become FartMan. That'll get the chicks.