He's a writer and creative writing professor. I met him during his PhD. To me he was so smart. And literary. Like high horse smart. He knew everything and it seemed to me that he had some kind of "high tastes." And I liked him enough to marry him anyway.
Then soon after we were married a LOT of superhero/comic book movies started coming out. Some of them are not so good (the Hulk) some of them are wonderful (Batman Begins). To me it's been no big deal. But to Todd, it was a really big deal. It was like suddenly, somehow the stuff that he has always really loved is now okay to love publicly.
Plus he made a new friend, another professor in his department, who has a lot of toys in his office. Little lego guys and figurines. And now it was super okay to have superhero toys. So he has some. Gift giving was easy for a while--superhero toys and superhero books (of course the very literary superhero books.)
But after a while that sort of got boring. Maybe not for him, it's hard to tell. But boring for me. So this Christmas I tried to think of something I could MAKE that I knew he would like. And this is what I came up with: superhero pillows.
I looked online and through many of our books and found some great vintage logos and appliqued them onto dark blue french terry. I wanted them to look like someone's mother made them back in the sixties. I think I got it.Now he's got the pillows in his office.
On a side note, Todd's superhero love isn't totally childish. He has written and presented two papers on the genre of superhero films at international conferences. So, he's keeping it grown up, I guess.
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Given your hubby's profession, I think it is quite appropriate that he is a superhero fan. I think that for many boys in particular, the superhero comics are what got them started with reading and their early efforts in creative writing often reflect that interest. Perhaps he was/is one of those little boys!
Loved your pillows and I bet he is the envy of the other profs too!
He absolutely WAS one of those little boys. He really does not read comic books anymore but I know he had quite a collection at one time.
oh, batman beyond was really good. my husband grew up reading some comics, so he's kind of into that. but more x-men than superman(x-men 2 was the best movie, i thought).
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