Raising Superheroes in a world full of Villians and Victims

The world is in grave danger.

Hang on race fans – it’s time for another left turn away from the goofy and a fast drive straight to the darkness.

Civilization as you and I know it cannot go on for much longer in its current state.

This has NOTHING to do with global warming or the Middle East or the dangers of tainted tomatoes.

We are killing ourselves by allowing the world to become a place devoid of HEROES.

When I was a child I was a super hero.

I cannot tell you how many times my ass was kicked stepping in front of a bully in an effort to protect his victim. Seriously, I can’t tell you. Many times. And it sucked. I wasn’t very big and it was a long time before I actually learned to cash the checks my mouth likes to write. But I never stopped because it always FELT like the RIGHT thing to do.

Today I see You Tube videos of kids ambushing each other and marketing it like part of a brutal resume to get hired on the Joker’s crew. I never hear about anybody trying to stop them. Everybody wants to be the bad guy. Nobody wants to be the hero.

I hear parents bitch about the schools and the video games and the tv shows and what a bad role model Britney Spears is but I NEVER hear about a kid getting a beating trying to STOP this bullshit.

When my wife was 8 months pregnant we came upon a group of teenagers who had just had a minor car accident on a desolate road in the middle of the night. The group who had rear ended the other were menacing the younger drivers in an effort to intimidate them inot not calling the police. I pulled my truck to the side of the road and got out to assist.

THE “VERY GOOD” HULK

When I was a kid my father and I would watch the Incredible Hulk series on CBS every week and make the same jokes about poor Bill Bixby’s wardrobe costs. It’s one of my favorite childhood memories – not because the jokes were so funny but because we kinda bonded over that show in a way. The people who made the new Incredible Hulk movie seem to have the same type of affection for it, because all the way through the new movie – from the opening frames to the last scene – you can feel the respect they have for the subject matter.

Make no mistake – that is not to say that this is a perfect movie – It’s too choppy toward the end and literally feels as if there may be a reel missing with the speed in which everything gets tied up. So if all those rumors about Marvel and Ed Norton arguing about the cuts Marvel wanted made are true – it would seem as though Ed Norton was right. As much as I like this movie – AND I REALLY DO – it’s VERY rushed at the 3/4 point.