This week on Ask Chris, I deal with one of the more interesting questions I’ve ever gotten: Who is a better representation of America: Superman or Scrooge McDuck? I’d always thought of both of those characters as having quintessentially American stories, but before that question, it hadn’t really occurred to me to contrast them for the different things they mean, and the result was pretty fun for me to write.
Hopefully it’s also entertaining and informative, but let’s be honest here: At this point, other people enjoying my work have clearly become a secondary concern.
“At this point, other people enjoying my work have clearly become a secondary concern”
You mean anytime after 2006, right?
I kid, i kid.
Great work as always.
That’s one of the best Ask Chris dissertations you’ve ever done. Kudos!
Also, wonderful panel choices.
I think you could picked a better panel than Superboy trying to save his Pa. The sight of him screaming and his hair on fire . . . it’s just ludicrous. Dunno how I didn’t notice it before.
Hey Jason.
the world don’t move to the beat of just one drum,
What might be right for you, may not be right for some.
A man is born, he’s a man of means.
Then along come two, they got nothing but their jeans.
But they got Diff’rent Strokes.
It takes Diff’rent Strokes.
It takes Diff’rent Strokes to move the world.
Everybody’s got a special kind of story
Everybody finds a way to shine,
It don’t matter that you got not alot
So what,
They’ll have theirs, and you’ll have yours, and I’ll have mine.
And together we’ll be fine….
Because it takes Diff’rent Strokes to move the world.
Yes it does.
Speaking of American icons, my condolences to you and all wrestling fans on the passing of the Macho Man, Randy Savage.