Comic Pitch 101: Superman Vs. God

This morbidly twisted idea came to me as I was driving to work and I heard on the radio that the death toll for the Asian Tsunami has gone up to 130,000 people.

I started thinking:

"Why doesn't Superman exist ?"

"If he did exist, he would be able to stop all this senseless death wouldn't he ? There wouldn't be much pain and suffering, and there'd be less tragedies in the world"

"Heck, the world would practically be like Heaven on Earth: A perfect Utopia"

But then I realised, all these tragic deaths might seem senseless to us (in 2004 alone there's been countless senseless deaths from innocent people dying in Iraq due to America's Hearts & Minds campaign, to the still starving people in parts of Africa, to the recent death toll due to the Asian Tsunamis); yet they serve a greater purpose in God's scheme of things.

You see, you might not want to admit it but life and death are a cycle put in place by God since time in memorial.

Some deaths occur thru natural causes (old age, cancer, heart attack, etc.), some premature (accidents, freak events, stillborn babies) and some are all-encompassing, worldwide catastrophes that hits everyone's conciousness like a sledgehammer to the head.

That's why in comic books you see superheroes like Batman, Superman, the Phantom, etc. initially tackle petty crime related stuff in the 1920s & 30s (thieves, gangsters, mafia mobs).

Then the 1940s saw superhero types like Captain America and Justic Society of America handling war threats like Nazi super strongmen, Japanese menaces or Hitler's lab creations.

The 1950s saw Marvel introduce heroes like the Hulk, Fantastic Four and X-Men where science was a new frontier and proved to spawn weird advesaries ranging from otherworldly alien threats to genetically enhanced mutants.

The 70s throughout the 90s propogated this non-world based threats and made comic book heroes more far out and otherworldly.

That's why you don't see superheroes like Superman, Batman or X-Men handle normal threats like Tsunamis or Earthquakes...cos they're too normal and wouldn't fit into the crazy 4-colored wondrous world of comic books.

But I digress, the main point I wanted to make was, superheroes CAN"T exist in reality cos they would disrupt the cycle of life and death. (Someone with less brain cells could have figured this out but hey...I'm a comic book lovin-moron.) ;-p

Imagine someone like Superman flying in to save the day everytime there's a tragedy likely to happen and stopping senseless deaths.

Soon, there'd be no more senseless deaths from tragedy, wars would stop, famine problems can be overcome by irrigating fallow earth (I can imagine Superman pummeling through mountain and earth to create lakes and rivers where there previously was cracked, dry deserts).

But when would it stop ?

The Value of Life would become cheap then.

Everytime you try to jump off a building and kill yourself, there'd be some costumed do-gooder saving the day.

Also, trying to live in the Utopia world would be really, really expensive.

Healthcare would get really expensive cos the only way to die is by natural death and the longer you can prolong life the better (non?), overpopulation would occur, prices of food and basic amenities would increase as well cos there's more people alive while the natural resources would dwindle rapidly.

So you see...there's a REASON for everything.

If you think about it....130,000 people died in the Asian Tsunami tragedy recently.

Yet have you thought about how many people has been BORN in Asia in 2004 alone ?

Asia has some of the most populous nations in the world (eg: India, China, Indonesia) and I betcha there was MORE than 130,000 ppl born in Asia, in 2004 alone.

So in closing, my point is YES the death from the Asian Tsunamis were senseless and it's a big tragedy, but people should realise that DEATH is just a part of the eternal cycle as in LIFE.

If you want to stop death from occurring...that's just tampering with what has been going on for eons.

The sooner people realise that, the better.

Things happen in this world for a REASON.