Over on Boing Boing Cory Doctorow blogs that Roy Trumbull has posted up a very good reading of Cory’s short story The Super Man and the Bugout, “a story about Superman as a Jewish boy raised in Toronto’s suburbs (Superman’s creators being, of course, nice Jewish boys from Toronto!), put out of work by the arrival of benevolent aliens who welcome Earth to the Galactic Federation.”
“Mrs. Abromowicz leaned across the table and whacked him upside the head with one hand, her big rings clicking against the temple of his half-rim specs. Had it been anyone else, he would have caught her hand mid-slap, or at least dodged in a superfast blur, quicker than any human eye. But his Mama had let him know what she thought of that sass before his third birthday. Raising super-infants requires strict, loving discipline. “Hey, wake up! Hey! I’m talking to you! What was that mess on television last night?”
“It was a demonstration, Mama. We were protesting. We want to dismantle the machines of war — it’s in the Torah, Mama. Isaiah: they shall beat their swords into ploughshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Tot would have approved.”
Mrs. Abromowicz sucked air between her teeth. “Your father never would have approved of that.”” (extract (c) Cory Doctorow)
July 29th, 2008 at 4:04 pm
Hey there! My name is Rachel, and I highly approve of your subject matter. As a Jewish comic-lover, this particular entry was really amusing. (I’m a clevelander, too– hurrah for the Jewish, Toronto-born, Cleveland-located creators of superman!) I’m currently in an internship where I’m helping to spread the word about the company’s newest project– JewGlue.com (Where Jewish People Shtick Together). We definitely could use a blog about comics up there, because it’s just shameful to have a blogging site without one. If you have time, I hope you can check out the site and enjoy everything we have to offer, and maybe consider posting a blog.
Thanks! Awesome blog.
check out –> JewGlue.com !