Graphic Novels - forever people

Graphic novels - like Jazz, quite possibly are the one original contribution that the USA has made to contemporary literature.

And then of course, just like everything else, the Japanese have adapted this creation and made it their own, made it better.

But this isn't about the USA or Japan, this is about those forever people that continue to live through many fantasies in these worlds of the graphic novel.

Just a few days ago, I tried leafing through a few web pages of a graphic novel and found myself hopelessly disinterested, the feel of the paper and print - the genius of the greats like Neil Gaiman, Joeph Loeb, Geoff Johns and the likes coming to life in our hands - the attraction is instant.

When one thinks of these characters superheroes, super villians, super side kicks and all the other "Supers ", why is it that there is a strange sense of association - we aren't like them, we would never be.

Why is it that we identify sometimes with the Bat, or the Wolf or the Big Blue - when the bourgeois isn't about any of these.

Part of us - identifies with the duality that these characters have,

Part of us - is always white and black ( while most of us is somewhere in between ),

Part of us - means for our life to have a larger than life, "Framed as a poster " kind of meaning, part of us - and we can all admit it truly really wants to kick butt.

So - as a parting SHOT -

Flying isn't about dreaming, its about thinking beyond imagination

Being a hero - isn't about being a super hero, its about being an ideal

We can be truly free not in our dreams but in our beliefs for in our beliefs lies a superhero in each one of us.

Lets Fly.