Humor tom BAKos
dumb power
A Question i Am often AsKed is what is my favorite superpower.
ok, it’s actually a question i ask myself a lot. Why? Well, doesn’t ev-
erybody? Who would need to win the lottery if he could be mr. money
Pockets? Wouldn’t dealing with annoying people be infinitely more tol-
erable if you had boomerang powers? their obnoxiousness would reflect
off you and only annoy them. You’d be known as reflectoman, a mutant
whose brain neurons are incapable of registering annoyance. rather, an-
noyance gives you pleasure (and gives your opponents migraines).
Or, how about this for a superpower?
I was flat-out exhausted from a morning
of play with my nearly 4-year-old grand-
son, Jay T, and, attempting to slow him
down, I asked him why he never got
tired. He said without hesitation, “Be-
cause I have super get-untired power.”
Right then I wanted some of that.
Choosing a favorite superpower,
however, can be a tantalizingly difficult,
tormenting, and frustrating experience.
If, perchance, your wish might actual-
ly come true, you must choose wisely
because you’re probably only going to
get one shot at it. And even if you could
choose more than one, anyone who
knows anything at all about superpow-
ers—their acquisition, use, deployment,
and limitations—knows that you also
get drama in direct proportion to the
superpower you possess.
