Another spot on piece. Everything you say resonates so deeply with me. As a kid my favourite superheroes were found in the works of Robert E. Howard and Edgar Rice Burroughs, characters like Conan the Barbarian and Tarzan and later on comic characters like Batman and Iron Man. Simply because they didn’t have super abilities. They were just ordinary men in extra ordinary situations that allowed them to grow to their full potential.

I always knew there was no way I’d be able to leap tall buildings in a single bound, but there was some part of Batman, of Tarzan, and of Conan that was in some small part attainable, and that made them all the more real for me.