I found a good article about the merits of fantasy stories -- specifically, the Lord of the Rings, but generally all fairy tales. And since Superman is a modern fantasy, I thought it was semi-applicable.

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/12/10/1070732283654.html

Okay, maybe I'm just posting this as a (thoroughly non-productive) way of getting back at my parents for all those times they told me to stop reading that silly stuff... wink

PJ

"You told me you weren't like other men," she said, shaking her head at him when the storm of laughter had passed.
He grinned at her - a goofy, Clark Kent kind of a grin. "I have a gift for understatement."
"You can say that again," she told him.
"I have a...."
"Oh, shut up."

--Stardust, Caroline K