Tag Archives: RLSH

Marvel Comics billed him as “the wildest superhero ever—because he’s real!” Although the pages of The Human Fly, (1977-78) were fiction, they were indeed loosely based on a mysterious masked man who set out to become the “world’s greatest stuntman” and “the greatest superhero that has ever lived or will live.”

For many years, a man has been living a comic book style double life in St. Petersburg, Florida. At night, armed with a gun filled with rubber bullets, a mask adorned with a chess piece symbol, and a stock of supplies, Knight-Hood patrols the streets of St. Petersberg.

'Heroes in the Night' is a deftly written, entertaining book that sheds light on the strange but timely, understandable and relevant subculture that is the RLSH movement.

There is some good material here and Hit Girl remains great, but often 'Kick-Ass 2' sets up for something outrageous and then cowers from it. “Have fun. That’s what it’s all about,” says Jim Carrey's character. Sadly, 'Kick-Ass 2' doesn't listen.

Most of what I treasure about the superhero genre are the symbolic meanings and mythological wisdom embedded within it.  And while I love comic books and comic-related material, there’s definitely no mistaking them for anything resembling realism.  This goes even for something as dark and somber as Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight film …