The difference between Superman and Batman

via Every. Issue. Ever.

10 Ways Smallville could become good

1. Give up on Clark and Lana. Give up forever. Repeat after me: nobody is invested in this relationship.
2. Have Clark fall in love with Lois. LOIS.
3. Unrequited. UNREQUITED!
4. Make Clark wear glasses. All the time.
5. More people telling Clark: “You're Super. Man.”
6. Put Ma back on the farm.
7. Is it too late to start 5 years earlier?
8. Flights.
9. Tights.
10. Just end already.

Well hi there.

It's been a while. But I'm still here, and all is well. Mostly.

Life with full time school, a full time daughter, and a job working with youth ministry at the church that can be as full time as I let it is being a little difficult to juggle.

Fortunately, I've known how to juggle since I was 14 years old.

The only side project I've really been giving any attention to lately is Thpam (which if you haven't you should definitely check out, updates on Fridays). I've even been letting Weirdos of Winnipeg slip.

But here's what's going on with me as a scholar:

I'm taking two courses this term, one on Critical Theory, focused on Identity Theory, in which I'm hoping to write a major paper on theories of secret identities, and my other class is a film course on Modernism in the Media, focusing mostly on reporter films from the 30s. I'm kinda hoping to write a paper on the Fleicher Superman cartoons (after all, Clark Kent is a reporter).

I'm trying to organize my thoughts and start real work on a thesis--which is tricky to say the least. But (among other things) I'm making an Amazon wishlist of biliographical sources, which I'll link to soon. Then if you are interested, you can see what kind of books I'm using to write my thesis. Once I start actually writing it, that is.

More posts about grad school soon. But for now...

I posted over at Holy Heroes about Manitoba Comic Con and meeting Kurt Busiek there, and he commented! Check it out!