NxtUp...Commonalities
An Essay on Super-Hero Chic
I got around to reading the March 10 issue of New Yorker Magazine and discovered this remarkable article by Michael Chabon.
"Our costume conceals nothing, reveals everything: it is our secret skin, exposed and exposing us for all the world to see. Superheroism is a kind of transvestism; our superdrag serves at once to obscure the exterior self that no longer defines us while betraying, with half-unconscious panache, the truth of the story we carry in our hearts, the story of our transformation, of our story’s recommencement, of our rebirth into the world of adventure."
If you love comics and super-heroes, if you are gay or straight, I encourage you
to take a few minutes and read this article. There is a bit of "Peter Pan" in a lot of us and it could be the one thing many of us have in common. My words not Michael Chabon's. Read the essay at the link.
The New Yorker
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