[Sca-cooks] comparisons (was Rest of World)

[Philip & Susan Troy]

Susan Fox-Davis wrote:
> Not knowing who Green Lantern is tantamount to not knowing Superman.  My
> goodness.

There was a time when it was determined that the three most famous
fictional characters, known virtually everywhere on the planet, in the
history of the world (to date) were Superman, Tarzan, and Sherlock
Holmes. I don't know if this is still true (if indeed it ever was), but
I would suspect that the difference between Superman and GL is that if
you don't go looking for such things, you're stilll going to run across
Superman; he's part of our mainstream culture to a greater extent than
GL's role in science-fiction and fantasy circles. More's the pity. How
can you not love a character whose superhuman abilities are his will
power and imagination? He's even kewler than... DALE CARNEGIE! Possibly
even kewler than NORMAN VINCENT PEALE!!!

Adamantius (even though Iron Man is kewler than any of them)

>
> Philip & Susan Troy wrote:
>
>
>> See E.E. Smith's
>>"Lensman" stories for the basic concept of a bunch of supercops spanning
>>the galaxy with pseudo-magical tools.
>>
>
> Hey, another Lensfan!  A rare breed these days.  See old WorldCon masquerade
> photos for a group I was part of.  You will see my lord husband Jared as The
> Gray Lensman, resplendant in plainest gray leather, but you won't see me, I
> was half of Tregonsee.  The good part of playing a radially-symmetrical
> quadruped is that neither I nor Karen had to be the hinder end!  Photos
> <http://lacon3.worldcon.org/www/Vid/lacon3_831masq/lacon3_831masq.1.html>
>
> Selene
>
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Phil & Susan Troy

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"It was so blatant that Roger threw at him.  Clemens gets away with
things that get other people thrown out of games.  As long as they
let him get away with it, it's going  to continue." -- Joe Torre, 9/98