Jesus and Superman

I can't believe I forgot to mention this. You know how Samson is into superheroes these days? I mean, really into superheroes.

As in asking classmates who are believed to be knowledgeable about superheroes to help identify characters he doesn't recognize. On his underpants. You can imagine that the conversation with Maggie's dad the other day was a little awkward. Not as awkward, as he readily admitted, as it would be if they were in high school together. But still. I actually had to have a talk with Samson about not asking kids in his class to look at his underpants. Even if it's to verify that yes, indeed, that is Doc Ock on your bottom.

I digress. So we've been watching TiVoed episodes of the old "Super Friends," and in the later years of the series they have this intergalactic bad guy named DarkSeid. As far as bad guys go, he's pretty lame. Which is good, because the last thing I want is for Samson's "treat" of watching cartoons to become a source for nightmares.

Anyway, we were at church last week, and the priest, Fr. Hank, referenced Jesus' 40 days in the desert and his temptation. He then talked about Lent and all of us, and how we may challenged by the "dark side." Needless to say, that was the one thing Samson got out of the entire Mass, and he was pretty interested to know that there was some kind of crossover between church and the Super Friends.

And to be honest, if it keeps him interested, I'm all for it. He's a bit more aware of things this year, and Green Lantern might be just what we need to take the edge off the whole crucified on Friday, chocolate eggs on Sunday thing...