Long ago, when I small, tiny, miniscule, microscopic (you get the idea), I used to tuck a twig in the back of my shirt and climb some place high (two or three stairs for example) and cry, “Wha wha whaaah wha wha wha!” holding the twig aloft.

Much later, I figured it was actually, “By the power of Grayskull!” I watched He-Man on Sundays and thought about it for the rest of the week. That was the time when there was little else on TV by way of kiddie entertainment. So I was really nice to read this piece by Sam Anderson on Slate.

What would this have been like? The final train station fight in The Matrix.

Agent Smith and Mr Anderson at each other’s throats. Then flinging themselves back and whipping out handheld shooting devices. Then running at each other and shooting while in mid-leap. Then falling on to the concrete, at each other’s throats again, guns at each other’s temples.

Smith: You are empty.

Anderson: So are you.

They race each other back to their feet. A moment’s pause (stylish, real stylish).

Smith loosens his grip on the gun, lets it dangle for a second, then flings it aside.

This seems like yesterday, but is actually what my life was like a year ago. I dug this up from my old blog. Typos intact. Sweet memories

By the time I woke up yesterday, the day, as I know it, was long gone. Seems most in the apartment woke up rather enthu. A quick confused SMS conference and six found themselves stuffed in an auto which was obviously made for the driver alone. Plus, he cribbed. The usual!

Before GI Joe, before even the mighty Transformers, there were the soldiers of the Spiral-Zone. Anachronism however shows no mercy.

On June 18 2007, renegade military scientist Dr. James Bent - code named Overlord - uses a hijacked space shuttle to drop his deadly Zone-producing Generators across half of the Earth. Thus is born the SPIRAL ZONE.

SPIRAL ZONE - Earth’s Most Powerful Soldiers!

Thanks a lot Raja Sen for the link.

Diamond Comics’ ‘official’ web presence must get even fewer visitors than this blog. How else would a site live with all these bloopers?

Check out their Batman, Spider-Man pages. They are all apparently modelled on the Shaktimaan page.

Just leave me alone for a while. I will go have a milkshake and probably get over this by evening.

Just thought I should clear some things up. I saw the posters to Hrithik Roshan starrer Krrish and noticed he was being called India’s first superhero. Before him it was Shaktimaan who was labelled thus. Even Spider-Man India got to be called India’s first.

Superhero myth or even comic books in general have never been any part of India’s public consciousness. But I must bite my lips, cut through the hoopla and say that a fact is a fact.