Who Wants To Be A SUPERHERO?

When I first heard about this show on the Sci Fi channel I thought they had to be kidding. They weren't. I could not figure out how they were going to turn ordinary people into superheroes. Well they did. By focusing their efforts on the values of honesty, integrity, courage etc. They showed what it took to make a person a superhero. It is your morales and values not your superpowers. Along the way they also made it fun. They started out with their real names but eventually used their code names for most of the series. Stan Lee would give them a series of challanges and the person who he thought did not preform up to superhero standards would be asked to turn in his or her costume. Now you would think that this would all be filled with comic book geeks who want to be in a comic book. Well they were represented very well but there was also Fat Mama a woman who wanted to send a positive message to children. Major Victory who was trying to get back in touch with his daughter by becoming a hero to her. There was also Levity a toy maker who wanted to win to get the toy manufacturing contract and Monkey Woman who was an actress who wanted to win the prize of starring in the movie made on her character to jumpstart her career. Both of them were asked to turn in their costumes when this was found out about them as superheroes are to be selfless not selfish. The one who did win was Matthew aka Feedback. He was big comic book fan who said that when his Father died he felt that Stan Lee helped to raise him by concentrating on the values that the Marvel comics characters that Stan created had. He eventually installed them into himself. Were all these people on the level about the selfless reasons they were on the show or were they just better actors then Levity and Monkey Woman? I hope they were telling the truth. Still it was a fun show to watch. Each week when they met to confront Stan about who was about to be booted from the show I felt like I was watching a comic book come to life. Like I was at a meeting of the JLA or the Avengers. For the most part I have stopped buying new comic books but I will look for this one and the made for TV movie that will come out based on Feedback. I just hope this was all done months ago so that the book and movie are ready to come out anytime now so they will be a hit. If they wait too long the audience may cool off and forget. For now congratulations to Matthew aka Feedback. It is nice to see that one comic book fans dreams came true.