One thing I've never understood is
Civil War re-enactors.
It's just a matter of taste, I guess, but I've never understood the appeal of LARPing (in slavish detail) one of our nation's greatest tragedies. I'm not criticizing those who participate--I just don't get it.
Well, I
didn't get it. Now I
do, thanks to
Superboy!
One day in
Smallville...
That all goes well enough. The following week, though, when Superboy is up in space:
But...
It's another
Silver Age puzzle story!
Superboy and
Alanis Morissette...
Anyway, after several pages of fruitless attempts to keep these
doppelgangers from dying horrific deaths, Superboy comes across...
A space ship that goes "
VROOOOMMM"?!?!
Uh-oh...this
is a Silver Age story, after all. Cue the
1 1/2 pages of ridiculous exposition/explanation:
(
SCIENCE!!)
Considering that
another Superboy story from this same year featured a family of aliens who wandered the cosmos playing practical jokes, I feel like
Mort Weisinger might have been quietly trying to build a Silver Age Elders Of The Universe for DC. Or he was just recycling story ideas...
Anyway, had I known that civil war enactments were actually war-games by retired alien generals using androids, I would have been on board all along. I mean, that is such a Doctor Who premise!!
From Superboy #143 (1967)
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