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! MIRACLEMAN ! : H.E. PRESIDENT DONALD J TRUMP - ENDOWED years ago, with lifelong Honour and Membership of The World Students Society - led by the great Students of America, and now words and news abound that President Trump may just be mulling a near future state visit to the region and Proud Pakistan.

HIS EXCELLENCY, who brought a priority and an urgent peace to the region most recently, - is also a great admirer of the people of Pakistan, and that is very respectfully mutual, so to his visit, the whole nation and !WOW! - we look forward to that with great honour, love, prayers and respect.

SO WHILE PREPARING FOR THE FUTURE - and when and if this great honour takes place, I most humbly take the liberty right from now, to request Secretary Mario Rubio to consider granting me some time with the President, to pay !WOW!'s respects and to get him to enjoy some lively conversation, repartee and laughters.

SUPERMAN : I MOVED ON FROM MY SPIDER-MAN phase, my X-Men phase, my Akira phase, but I could never entirely break free from Superman..

He wasn't a haunting or an obsession, but the older I got, the more I found myself unconsciously tracing what the writer and academic Wai Chee Dimock called his resonance '' the travelling frequencies received and amplified across time, moving farther and farther across from the points of origin, causing unexpected vibrations in unexpected places.''

I found myself curious about Superman's origins as a literary-creation, the forerunner material from which he sprang.

I read Philip Wylie's '' Gladiator '' and Lester Dent's '' Doc Savage. '' I read Olaf Stapledon's. '' Odd John '' and Edgar Rice Burroughs's books of John Carter of whom the early Superman was an obvious inversion.

John Carter travels to Mars, where the lower gravity grants him incredible powers, including the ability to leap tall buildings in a single bound. Superman, similarly, travels to Earth, where the yellow rays of the sun give him almost every power imaginable. 

Like John Carter, Superman is not just a physical prodigy, he's also a moral one. That's what sets him apart from, and above, the people he's going to care for - or rule.

Ultimately, I began to obsess over one specific kind of Superman.

There is a supergenre of Superman stories, pastiches of Superman that exist outside the official franchise.

He has more clones, more duplicates, more sendups than anyone - what the villain Bizarro [ himself an imperfect copy of Superman ] called his '' perfect imperfect duplicates. ''

These stories break Superman out of his oneiric purgatory. They make him and his terrifying powers consequential, exploring rather than strangling the troubling contradictions Superman introduces.

The master of this genre is the legendary comic writer Alan Moore. He penned what are widely considered the greatest Superman stories......

'' For the Man who has everything '' and '' Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?'' - stories whose refusal to gloss over Superman's losses gave the character an almost heartbreaking poignancy.

But Mr. Moore also wrote the two most influential perfect imperfect duplicate Superman stories - the much lauded '' Watchmen '' and the lesser known '' Miracleman.''

There is no better or darker Superman story in my book than '' Miracleman '' in which the British government creates superheroes and controls them via a Matrix-like hallucination [ another unchanging climate ], where the supervillains are a former scientist and a super-psycho so genocidal he makes Thanos look like Jimmy Olsen.

When our superheroes fight, they destroy London and kill hundreds of thousands. Our hero, Miracleman, ''wins'' the battle, but faster than you can say 'Kimota!''

He takes over the planet, imposing on humanity a benign utopian dictatorship where many of civilization's ills are banished and all can gain superbodies and normal, base-line humanity is slowly driven extinct.

The end.

'' Miracleman '' is the reason we have stories like '' The Boys,'' which features the star-spangled sociopathic hero Homelander ; it is the book that comes close to being the final word on the myth of the Man of Tomorrow.

It was in stories like these, which follow the apocalyptic logic underpinning an all-powerful hero to its exterminating conclusion, that Superman finally spoke true for me.

The Honour and Serving of this Latest Global Operational Research on Superman and the world, continues. The World Students Society thanks Professor Junot Diaz of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

He is also the author of four books, most recently '' Islandborn.''

With respectful dedication to Parents, the Global Founder Framers of !WOW!, the Students of America, and then Students, Professors and Teachers of the World.

See You all prepare for Great Global Elections on The World Students Society - the exclusive and eternal ownership of the Students of America, and then the Students of the World : wssciw.blogspot.com and Twitter X !E-WOW! - The Ecosystem 2011 :

Good Night and God Bless

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