The inspiration for this blog's title makes McSweeney's list of "Actual Superheroes From the Pages of International and Obscure Comic Books Who Are Unlikely to See Their Origin Stories Developed Into Movies." Which doesn't strike me as precisely fair; I mean, Matter-Eater Lad was simply born with his power to consume matter in all its forms because that's an ability natural to the people of his homeworld of Bismoll. And then he joined the Legion of Super-Heroes. As origins go, it's pretty prosaic; it's not like there's radiation or cosmic rays involved. A fuller -- albeit borderline reverential -- picture of our namesake's history can be read here.
Hmm. Looking over that list a second time, methinks the author of the McSweeney's piece has been spending a lot of time over at Gone and Forgotten...
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