Longing for the Superheroes of Yesteryear, . . .

When DonDiego was a youngster there were plenty of comic-book superheroes, . . . real superheroes, like Superman, and Batman, . . . and some lesser-lights like the Flash and Captain Marvel, . . .and even Alfred E. Neuman.  

Superheroes who were deserving of the title s-u-p-e-r !

Nowadays, . . . umm, not so much, . . .

Marvel Comics is in the process of introducing some brand-new Superheroes suited for the 21st Century. 

Like:

__ Snowflake

Snowflake is a non-binary who goes by "they/them" and is capable of generating individual crystalized snowflake-shaped shurikens.  [Poor old DonDiego had to look up "shuriken", and so does the interested reader, if any.]

__ Safespace

Safespace is Snowflake's psychic-twin; DonDiego still doesn't know what that means except that Snowflake is supposed to possess offensive powers and Safespace is a proponent of defensive weaponry.

Poor old DonDiego finds this most depressing.

[Oh, and by the way, . . . poor old DonDiego is quite unlikely to ever address anyone he is likely to meet as "they/them"; even "it" is a longshot.  DonDiego inhabits the real world.]

DonDiego has not included a link; the interested reader will have to look up crap like this by himself.  "Safespace", my ass !

A shiruken (a multi-bladed throwing star) is a pretty cool weapon actually. Especially if you can make them on the fly. Favorite weapon of the ninja.

I like the idea of the Safespace guy actually. The recent superhero trope is that they work in teams. Somebody should be responsible for defense.

But I've met several superheroes in the last few days. And they're running out of face masks.

Wile E Coyote and the Road Runner.  Ya had to love 'em.  Wile E never gave up trying to catch Road Runner, who out smarted Wile E every time.   Real men...or whatever.

Did you know that the Acme Company, whose products never worked, was owned by a very young Donald Trump?

I submitted a show idea to Cinemax After Dark entitled "The Aventures of Buttman and Wonder Slut"

I never heard back. 

You were too late.  Bevis & Butthead and Wonder Woman had run their course.   Update your title to something more selacious and XXX-rated.

Kevin, do Snowflake and Safespace work as a team to whine and complain about World unjustice, specifically arguing for wealth redistribution? 

I'm guessing that Old Don finds everything about the 21st century to be "most depressing."  Of course, he found everything after Calvin Coolidge from the 20th century to be "most depressing" as well.

Quite the contrary.

DonDiego really enjoyed following the "Space Race" and especially the Apollo Program.  He even managed to observe three of the 7 launches from within the Kennedy Space Center, or close-by:

__ Apollo 11 - first lunar landing

__ Apollo 14

__ Apollo 17 - final lunar landing (this was a night launch; really spectacular - best fireworks rocket ever.)

[Of course, it all turned-out to be just a stunt to show-up the Russkies, . . . like a lot of critics called it.  DonDiego opines any manned trips to another celestial body are unlikely within the remainder of his life.]

And most appropriate to this website right here, poor old DonDiego was an advantage player in Las Vegas.  He regularly visited Las Vegas and paid for it with blackjack winnings, and later sports betting profits - almost exclusively the NFL.  Not his biggest bet, but he won a 20-to-1 NFL parlay once.

Oh, and DonDiego shook Muhammed Ali's hand once.

And he really liked the Eagles beating the Patriots in that Super Bowl !

Only someone like you would say that objecting to injustice is "whining" and that wealth redistribution is wrong.

I assume you meant REdistribution, because wealth distribution happens every time an act of commerce takes place, and hopefully, you're not opposed to that.

Fortunately, people who, like you, support injustice are dying out.