http://www.metafilter.com/tags/jewishsuperheroes Posts tagged with 'jewishsuperheroes' at MetaFilter. Sat, 05 Feb 2005 19:28:03 -0800 Sat, 05 Feb 2005 19:28:03 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/39326/Up%2Dup%2Dand%2Doy%2Dvey <a href="http://www.nusion.com/jewishsuperhero/jhc.htm">"After unknowingly eating an atomic matzah that was accidentally baked in a microwave oven with radioactive water, she was surprised to learn that she could fly..."</a> Take your radioactive spiders and your gamma bombs and shove them up your <em>tuchus</em>. I'm casting my lot with the <a href="http://www.nusion.com/jewishsuperhero/">Jewish Hero Corps</a>! But seriously: <a href="http://www.marveldirectory.com/teams/fantasticfour.htm">Most </a>(but not <a href="http://www.spawn.com/comics/series.aspx?series_id=1">all</a>) of the most widely-known superheroes around are a bit on the WASPy side. Is it possible to address issues of ethnicity and identity via superheroes, given the fact that most folks think it's just a lot of punching and zapping? Or do we have to resort to doing via <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0785100393/metafilter-20/ref=nosim/">metaphor</a>? tag:metafilter.com,2005:site.39326 Sat, 05 Feb 2005 19:28:03 -0800 jewishsuperheroes hifiparasol