Reply #123: It's not just about the KAPOWs. There are many discernible delights to

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these comic book heroes.

Most of them are a great read for liberals because the characters are banked off the class distinctions in culture. Zorro, for example, is a wealthy land holder who dines with the ruling class by day but by night rides through the land on his black steed to help the poor and voiceless. Pretty cool guy.

Spiderman is actually the nephew of working class folk in Queens. He helps the helpless also but his impulse to help isn't economically paradoxical. He's smart, resourceful, imaginative, and pro-science, plus he has a hot girlfriend. Not a bad combo.

We can play at the gods and goddesses without losing sight of the notion that they are constructs. And meanwhile the constructs are a lot of fun, whether you're 8 or 108.

Long live the super heroes.