Final Thoughts...

To end the semester I wanted to share this clip from one of my favorite TV shows, The Big Bang Theory. It's a humorous look at what happens when you start to take comic book superheroes WAY to seriously:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1tGMlsoWgQ

Encyclopedia of Super-beings: MASQUE

Real Name: Jen Armour

Ability: shape shifting

Alter-ego: Jason Ax

Current whereabouts: unconfirmed

Story: Falsely convicted of killing her husband, Masque was on death row, about to be executed, when her transformation occurred. An unknown person switched the lethal injection with a serum that gave her the power to change her shape (she later searched for her mysterious benefactor, to no avail). While the serum was altering her DNA she appeared to be dead and was taken to the prison mortuary. Upon waking, she took the form of a bird and flew to freedom. Her first act was to track down her husband’s real killer. With the help of her ability she was able to find out that her husband was killed by a gang for failing to pay protection money on his restaurant. Masque infiltrated the gang by impersonating one of their recruits and took them down from the inside. After the success of this first mission she became enamored of the idea of using her skills to rid L.A. of the menace of gangs. As a former probation officer, Masque knew that the organization with the information she needed was the Major Gang Task Force of the LAPD, run by notorious misogynist Mack Lee. To get on the force, Masque created the hyper-masculine alter-ego Jason Ax. A few years later, during a routine gang infiltration, Masque found herself falling in love with a gang leader; through her intimacy with him she realized that her war on gangs was only treating a symptom, not the cause. That same month, Jason Ax was killed in a raid and dumped in a river. No body was ever found. The gang leader in question, “D,” is believed to be the media mogul and philanthropist Don Delano, who currently lives in Malibu with his life partner Jed Abel.