I couldn’t resist. In a couple of my earliest panels featuring The Interventionist, I put him is poses inspired by some of the earliest Superman action drawn by Joe Schuster — lifting a vehicle over his head and rushing in a blur toward a bad guy. This time, I couldn’t resist giving him a line of dialog from the Superman radio show of the 1940s.
A little background: Two years ago, my family and I took our first major driving vacation and headed from Colorado to California. Before we left, I loaded up my iPod with dozens of podcasts of the old Supes radio show. We listened to episode after episode as we crossed the barrenness of Utah and kept ourselves amused listening for the line “Never mind that” or “Never mind that now.” It was in literally every episode. Our assumption was that was a common turn of phrase in the ’40s.
The line in this strip originally was “That doesn’t matter.” But when I realized I could easily trade it for the Superman line, I couldn’t not change it. It’s probably funny only to my wife and me, but I’m exceedingly pleased with it. … I’m a cheeseball, what can I say?
And on a much more serious note, given the name of this comic, I have to salute the Boy Scouts in Little Sioux, Iowa, who sprang to action to help each other after a tornado struck their remote camp on Thursday. Tragically, four teens died in the carnage. My prayers go out for their families. The survivors are a great testament to why every boy should be a Scout at some point.
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