Adam@Home by Rob Harrell for September 21, 2016

Good one!

“If I woke up one day and I was Superman… I’d go back to sleep and hopefully wake up as Batman”- Something I read on Imgur

@Doc Toon. I read that too. Didn’t explain how a camera would be affected. Really lame. A few years ago I walked into a gun show and was recognized by a friend of the younger brother of a friend of my younger brother who I had last seen in high school (I graduated in 1971). I was not only plumper but I wore a beard and different hairstyle and my hair and beard were white instead of brown. He remembered me because I played him and his friend simultaneous games of chess and beat both of them. You would think that Superman’s “Pal” and his “Girlfriend” would be able to recognize him.

Clark Kent’s disguise was more than the glasses. He also changed his hair and wore baggy suits to disguise his bulk. He also supposedly slouched changing his height by 2 inches and made other body language changes.

The basic idea is that most people recognize another more by body language than by facial recognition. People will usually recognize a friend by the way they are moving long before they see their face. Some actors have actually played characters in movies where people did not recognize them with less of a disguise, Paul Reubens comes to mind.

This all works fine until a person sees both in pictures but never in real life. especially if they are both head shots. Suddenly the glasses and hair trick look pretty lame.

I’ll take being Superman over Batman any day of the week. Supes may be in his underpants but he can fly faster than any of Bruce Wayne’s jets. Heck, he can fly to the moon if he wants. And…..X-Ray vision…. just saying. :)

Not in his “underpants” can’t anyone keep it straight? Monotard, cut down leotard.

“Just look at that fellow Clark Kent,Just look at that fellow Clark Kent;His specs don’t disguise him,And yet noone spies him As being that Superman gent.”- Mad’s Comic Opera, ca 1956

Superman’s original “wear glasses and act timid” routine came out of a much simpler era. Maybe the first suggestion that there was more to his disguise than that came when he moved to radio. The producers thought they’d need one actor for Clark Kent, and one for Superman, but Bud Collyer showed he could handle both by bringing his voice down one octave in mid-sentence: “This is a job FOR SUPERMAN.”

Oh, and I’d rather be Superman — you have all those cool super powers (including the ability to time-travel and compress coal into diamonds), and while the trauma of your whole world exploding may be worse than that of your parents being murdered, at least you were an infant when it happened and don’t really remember it.

You would think Adam would like to be someone like Mr. Fantastic. With stretching powers he could go from having a beer belly to having six pack abs, 21 inch arms, all with just a little concentration

Wait, who says you can’t do both?

I will never understand why the go to power for people talking up Superman is flight. Flight is just about one of the worst solo super powers you could possibly have – you need super speed and indestructibility to go along with it to make it worth anything. I get that it needed to be flight for the joke, but I would think X-ray vision could have been worked into a better (though more risqué) joke that actually pointed out a power that is worth something.

I would think the air flow would be more cooling than it is sitting in a seat in the plane.

Superman hasn’t had the costume reflecting “underpants” for the last several years.