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 The Myth of SupermanBy: Mark Morgan on 5/24/2006; 12:04 PM Writing deity Neil Gaiman and Wired Senior Editor Adam Rogers have an interesting article in the June 2006 Wired about the myth of Superman which includes some insights I hadn't come across before, including the fact that the writers keep reinventing Lex Luthor to make him a decent enemy of the Big Blue Boy Scout. (I used to watch Smallville but I can't stand Lana Lang and she had a huge story arc one season. Your humble narrator's doctor recommended large doses of Battlestar Galactica and Lost as a treatment. But I digress.) What struck me most reading this piece were the weasel words Gaiman and Rogers have in the piece. "Pretty much" shows up near the end. "Literally" (a semantic null if there ever was one) is in there. ("Literally", as in, "actually happened"? For a pretend character?) Rereading the piece for this posting it isn't as blatant as I first thought but it definitely gave me a strong feeling when I first read it. I don't recall Gaiman's writing being that lazy before. (It also includes "flipped" in the business sense of "selling to a different company", as in "our business plan is to build this cool application that Google might be interested in and flip it to them. Is Web 2.0 buzz language the Wired house style or something?) Anyway. Go forth and read but please. Avoid "literally" and "pretty much". Your world will be a better place.
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