Reality Check by Dave Whamond for January 29, 2023

I liked the first two Fantastic Four movies. The third one not so much.

Ooh. Too soon?

Hawkeye is my favorite.

Hawkeye did kill the Hulk in the comics. He also blew up Loki in the movies.

Well Jeremy Renner, who played Hawk Eye, got ran over by a snow plow and lived.

The Inevitable Reality Check.

Well, Batman doesn’t have any superpowers… but Man-Bat does. So, there’s that old BBT argument that if Man-Bat dressed as a man to fight crime, would he be Man-Bat-Man or Bat Man Bat. It’s all too complicated!

The Invisible Woman: Well “Invisible!” (duh)

The Human Torch: “Hot!”

When Hawkeye retired (after Age of Ultron) he played a round of golf. “Well, I played 18, I shot 18, just can’t seem to miss.” Now that’s a superpower.

Hawkeye may not have superpowers, but he didn’t hesitate to get between a snowplow and his nephew.

I heard Hawkeye was an excellent surgeon, made a mean martini in the Swamp and was quite the ladies’ man.

It started as rich guys with fancy toys (Zorro, Batman, Phantom, Iron Man, Black Panther). Aliens show up (Superman, Silver Surfer), & now we’re overrun with mutants.

Somehow, the word “Reality” and these examples don’t quite jibe. And I was a super hero comic reader in the early ’50s, and a trader extraordinaire. But then, I became an Engineer.

Hawkeye is the one that commands the most respect: he can keep up with all these gods and superpowered-types with skills that he learned through hard work and practice. Hawkeye is the best.

Yelps commercial section at work…

Stan Lee and Jack Kirby among others

are the real superheroes …!