ELEANOR:

Goodbye, O comic books, the love affair is ending

Adieu to thee, Stan Lee, DC, and Dell

Though it's been fun, the time has come to stop pretending.

All the dreams must end, so my super friends - farewell...



But oh - I wish I were a superhero girl.

Like in the comics! Like in the movies!

Oh - Someday I'll be a superhero girl

Faithful and forceful and eternally true!

I'll crush every enemy of the red, white and blue!

Defend my fellow men (and my fellow women, too!)

That's what I'm gonna do

But oh - It's tough to be a superhero girl.

Cause no one knows it! I'm not supposed to show it!

Oh - Someday they'll know

The shy little girl they've been callin' a geek

The wormy little nerd who's much too nervous to speak,

That mess, I confess, is the hero they all seek!

I'll show them - I'm sittin' in the lab, Biology 502

Some boys start makin' fun of me (like they always do!)

The teacher is no help (Just get me outta here, I wish!)

The boys dump rotten eggs into my petrie dish!



Oh my God. This is right out of "Princess Amethyst of

the Gemworld" : Volume 5, Issue 9, when Amy Winston

accidentally opens the Well-Between-Worlds and the

eggs hatch into killer dinosaurs!



Oh no. There's poor little Morris,

mashed by a brontosaurus

And teacher's pet Camilla, mangled by Godzilla.

The blackboard is all bloody

cause they ate Miss Magilicutty.

(Should I save them? Or should I let them die the

death they so richly deserve?)

Oh no!!!!! Calling Superhero Girl!!!!!!!!!!



Oh - please let me be a superhero girl!

I'll get up one morning and then without a warning

Oh - Just watch me fly!

A new door is opening to who knows where!

Ic12