Editor's Note: Superheroes

[Susan Arendt]

Superheroes

My handsome, popular older brother feigned ignorance of my identity as I walked down the halls while my mother accused me of actively trying not to fit in. I knew, with the iron certainty that only the young possess, that no one would ever understand me.

Then I discovered the X-Men.

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[Jakkar]

If only the Dandy and the Beano could have done the same for me. Damned British comic culture.

 

[WilyWombat]

Is everyone involved with games working from a hellish school experience of alienation? Escapist indeed! Heroic escapism exists to give everyone hope and new perspective, so yay for them and yay for those of us who have found a way to be comfortable with who we are.

 

[dash cunning]

One side of the collar popped up, the other side down. Also, one red sock.

 

[Thais]

Hm...what does it say about me that in reading the X-Men I never identified with anyone but Deathbird? I mean it'd be one thing if I was the older sister, but um...I was the little sister in all the same classes as my older sister (yah, guess how much freakin' fun that one was...)