By David Perlmutter — Photograph from author’s collection. I realize that I am a new arrival to Medium and not everyone may know who I am yet. But I also don’t want to waste your time, so I’ll be brief. Vital Statistics: Born July 22, 1980, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Lived nowhere else except Winnipeg…

Another important occasion… Friendship is one of the most important things in this world. Hard to find, difficult to maintain, but always worth it, friendship is an essential element of the world. Some of what I have written touches on the importance of this idea as a central component of…

Celebrating important (to me) fictional beings April 28 is National Superhero Day- and, as an avid fiction writer and pop culture historian on this topic, I wasn’t going to let it go unnoticed. Those of you who follow me here know that I have cultivated my own fictional superhero universe…

A shocking superhero adventure…. I. I had just returned home from school when the phone rang. I knew it had to be the Mayor, because nobody else contacts me with that ring. We have a deal, the Mayor and I. I save the city from destruction when it needs to…