Class Fives: Origins (49 page)

The superheroes we have come to accept, and whose adventures we follow so avidly for their excitement, adventure and drama, are usually only half-people. Our view of them is carefully edited to make them iconic and somehow different from everyone else. We never even consider Batman taking a newspaper to the rest room, or Superman looking in the fridge to see what he should have for dinner. There is nothing ordinary about them, or if there is, we are never allowed to witness or even think about it.

But that is what interests me; what are such heroes like, not as heroes, but as people?

What must it be like to be so different, so alien, amid the mass of ordinary humanity? And what, if anything, would the trials and tribulations of their lives say about our own?

I hope you enjoyed the tale.

Jon H Thompson

August 2011

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“Class Fives: Development”

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Jon H Thompson was born in Hackensack, New Jersey (a circumstance he had absolutely no control over) and raised in the smallest incorporated town in the United States (Dellview, North Carolina, population 9).

He attended the North Carolina School of the Arts and worked as an actor on stage, in film and  on television.

He is the author of a number of plays, screenplays and several novels.

But he was born in Hackensack, so that pretty much says it all.