all winter long i've been teasing shauna that she looks like brainiac when she wears her down coat with the hood on. this is brainiac:
in all of my comic research and reading i've come to realize that that i've confused the brainiac - a superman villain - with the leader - a hulk villain. this is the leader:
hold on to your hat here because i'm about to depart from my usual geekiness into a rarely seen comic book super-geekiness. my confusion could be easily enough explained by the fact that they both have big green brain-filled heads. brainiac is an alien however, while the leader, much like the hulk, is a man that gained his powers from exposure to gamma radiation. so when i snapped this photo of shauna in full-hooded glory while walking home the other night the hamster wheel in my head began spinning.
i started doing research and here we are right now. it was that fallout shelter sign, with it's familiar radiation symbol that inspired the investigation and this post. despite the uncanny resemblance to the leader i'm going to continue to call shauna the brainiac anytime she dons that hood. it just works better. as a final eerie note, a first grade student in an art class i substituted for on monday did this drawing:
sorry shauna, the leader ranks only thd (3rd) best to that boy. hey, look on the bright side, you and your big puffy brain are number one with me.
in all of my comic research and reading i've come to realize that that i've confused the brainiac - a superman villain - with the leader - a hulk villain. this is the leader: 
hold on to your hat here because i'm about to depart from my usual geekiness into a rarely seen comic book super-geekiness. my confusion could be easily enough explained by the fact that they both have big green brain-filled heads. brainiac is an alien however, while the leader, much like the hulk, is a man that gained his powers from exposure to gamma radiation. so when i snapped this photo of shauna in full-hooded glory while walking home the other night the hamster wheel in my head began spinning. 
i started doing research and here we are right now. it was that fallout shelter sign, with it's familiar radiation symbol that inspired the investigation and this post. despite the uncanny resemblance to the leader i'm going to continue to call shauna the brainiac anytime she dons that hood. it just works better. as a final eerie note, a first grade student in an art class i substituted for on monday did this drawing: 
sorry shauna, the leader ranks only thd (3rd) best to that boy. hey, look on the bright side, you and your big puffy brain are number one with me.
1 comment:
thd!?! that kid needs to recognize. just kidding i guess i'm ok with being thd best to hulk and iron man.
:)
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