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Fortunately, Batman and Spider-Man Are Still Real

Jesse Walker | 5.16.2003 5:27 AM

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When news first surfaced of the Tunbridge Wells superhero, I asked whether we were reading news from an alternate universe.

If the latest chapter of the story is true, it seems we were.

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Jesse Walker is books editor at Reason and the author of Rebels on the Air and The United States of Paranoia.

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  1. Andrew Lynch   22 years ago

    This tale fills me with glee. After the establishment press made superstars out of the Raelians, is anyone surprised they didn't jump all over O?

    As the press have demonstrated in their shameless consumption of far-less interesting lies from the White House, they'll eat anything, whether it's in Turnbridge Wells or inside the Beltway.

    Gotta go, there's a cat stuck in the tree across the street. Wooooooooosh!

  2. Andrew Lynch   22 years ago

    That should read: "...anyone surprised they jumped all over O?" Back to saving the world.

  3. Frenk   22 years ago

    The only thing that would be more widely--and gleefully-- reported than O's existence would be his take-down: Perverted, philandering? A poor "role model" for the children of the world middle class? Dalliance with intern? Penchant for Oreos? Smoking? He's sure to be guilty of something, dressed in that brown suit.

  4. Jon B.   22 years ago

    How does this sort of thing get started?

    Dark room the the mansion, late at night. Bruce Wayne is sitting there thinking to himself, "Criminals are a cowardly, superstious lot. I need a symbol that will fill them with fear.

    Suddenly a cockroach crawls across the floor...

    (With apologies to Dave Sim, from the pages of Cerebus the Ardvark)

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