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Keith Miller plays the Golden Age Superman and is a Sociology Major at the McNeese State University inLake Charles, Louisiana. Thoughts on the Golden Age Superman: I'm still pretty new tothis whole role playing mush idea, but I enjoy it very much. It's a greatway to unwind from the grueling routine of college existence and I've meta lot of cool people while playing. I'm still finding my feet when playingSuperman. I have always found the Golden Age Superman to be my favoriteversion of the character. I love the 1939-41 issues of his comics the most.He was the ultimate liberal>reformer, willing to break any state or federallaw to stop every injustice he saw. He saw a problem and he fixed it. Simpleas that. However he mellowed out around 1941 and became more law abiding.He decided that instead of solving every little problem for people he wouldmake the world safe so that people could solve their own problems.ÝSince the mush is set in 1942 I have to be the kinder, gentler superman.Oh darn! In my mind Clark Kent is the real person, Superman is just theperson Clark becomes to get things done, to make the world the place wedeserve it to be. Clark has all the real personality. I love playing himas a meek hick lost in the big city. His parents, the Kents were thebiggest influence in his life. Clark has three great loves of his lifeJustice, the newspaper business, and Lois Lane. Deep down Clark is a steeledwilled romantic, a Quixotic hero, a man who like other men sees the worldas it should be but isn't but unlike other men he has discovered he hasthe power to carry out his conviction. His whole life he has had to hidewhat he really is but has found the perfect outlet for his dreams in thesuperman identity. At this point in his life Superman has no idea what his origin is. His very existence is a mystery to him. Maybe that is whyhe is such good friends with the Batman, the epitome of mystery. E-mail Keith Miller
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To the memory
**of Jack Kirby and Bob Kane**
James
Enelow plays the
Golden Age Batman. He is a Ph.D student at the
University ofTexas at Dallas. He also teaches in
the Rhetoric
Program. Thoughts
on the Golden Age Batman: In order to really
understand the Batman, I had to abandon all the
pre-concievednotions I have of him. As you can see,
I only have a gif here of the AnimatedSeries
Batman, but watching the animated series helps me
understand theman's motivations and passions. The
Current Animated Series also capturesa little bit
of Batman's origonal look. When I play Batman, I
turn to thinkingof how Batman operated in the
beginning. He drove fast cars. Bullets wereflying
everywhere, and he was constantly swinging on ropes
and smashingheads. I play the Batman as a hard
nosed detective but he's only gruffwhen it comes to
dishing out justice. It's hard not sometimes to
lapseinto the Modern Batman. Even as I watch the
Cartooon show, I see aspectsof Modern Batman, but
there is an innocence to the Golden Age Batman,
Itry to capture. I dislike the Batman that argues
with Superman and the Golden
Age Batman allows
me the freedom of playing a character who can trust
Superman. A characterwho is not so dark--not so
psychotic. My Batman is a searcher
and an adventurers and a good friend when thechips
are down. He is a hard individual but there is his
soft side. Walking the line between the modern day
conceptions of Batman and the Golden Ageideal is
very hard. I look to concept shows such as
"Superfriends" forguidance but there is a
connection between Adam West's Batman and the
DarkKnight--
Frank Miller's Batman, though I discount that he
doesn't sound like Adam West and he isn't nearly as
chearful. For information on the Golden Age
Batman's stats you can check them out by going to
this site. E-mail James
Enelow
