it's like James Frey and J.T. Leroy teamed up to write these things

I really like writing the Wonder Woman Blog with Syd, because it's the only one of the blogs I write that sometimes automatically updates itself while I sleep. Syd, resident comic book pundit, explains that DC Comics has so many problems making their storylines add up over time because, in reaction to a drop in demand in the '40s and '50s, they killed off many of their characters, but then later tried to bring them back...

In the late 50's, D.C. tried to bring back some of the old characters, but rather than have the characters who had failed and been cancelled return, they created new characters with the same powers. In fact, the new Flash had read the old "The Flash" comics when he was younger. You see in the new "The Flash," the old Flash was a fictional character. Try to keep up. The problem arose when the new Flash teamed up with Superman, because some readers noticed that the Superman who was teaming up with the Flash was the same Superman who had teamed up with the old Flash who was now a fictional character in the Flash's world, which means that Superman was... ERROR! ERROR! DOES NOT COMPUTE! Then their brains exploded.

Facing legislation from the families of those whose heads exploded, The Flash's writer Gardner Fox wrote a comic to explain this. The story goes that The Flash ran so fast that he ripped a hole in reality. For those of you who doubt that this is what happens when you run really fast, keep in mind that you don't have a degree in relativistic physics.

For more Syd goodness, come to the Feb. 8 Jenny Vaudeville Show. Photo of me in my Wonder Women underpants by Ryan Brenizer.