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The Decline of Super-Hero Movies

 Every weekend I block out two hours for writing, and I should be using that time editing my book today, but I'm really not enjoying writing that book, and thinking of abandoning it altogether, so instead I'm doing another blog post to procrastinate from that other project. Some say we have super hero fatigue.  Less super hero movies are being made, after years of flooding the market.  James Gunn says that it's not fatigue for super-hero movies.  We just need good stories.   Super hero movies have been with us since the days of the serials in the 1940s.  Superman, Batman, Captain Marvel and Captain America all got serials, along with non-super comic book characters like Blackhawk, Hop Harrigan, and Dick Tracy.   For decades, it seemed as though the super-hero movies were focused on Superman and Batman.   That changed in 2000 with the release of X-Men.  Many will say that Blade in 1998 was the start, and that may be true, but I ...

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So now that I sent the imp back to his world for another three months... Last year for April Fool's Day, I wrote a post about Batman's joke themed villain, the Joker.  So this year, I'm covering Superman's mischievous fifth dimensional foe. It should be noted that I believe that the imps from the fifth dimensional land of Zrfff on Planet Poppup include Mxyzptlk, sometimes using the alias Mxyztplk, the Impossible Man, Bat-Mite, Quisp, and Larry.  I believe that these beings are what will someday be known as the Q.  It's possible that the Great Gazoo may also come from this world.  Additionally, "witches", as seen on Bewitched, may actually be hybrids created from this race mating with humans at some point in the distant past.   And before I begin the chronology, I want to point out as a point of pride that I've been able to spell Mxyzptlk without looking it up since I was a wee lad. There are three different in-story interpretations of...