Speaking of eyeglasses, I’ve always wondered about Superman and Supergirl, ever since I was a little kid. In the comics — and more recently in the movies and TV shows — these two superheroes can always walk about unrecognized, just by putting on a pair of glasses.<\/p>\n
Now, I don’t know about you, but if I put on a pair of glasses, I just look like me wearing a pair of glasses. This seems like a far more remarkable superpower than their ability to fly or to burn through walls with death-ray eyes, or even to bend steel with their bare hands.<\/p>\n
There are lots of amazing wonders in the Marvel Universe, including a billionaire who flies around in an iron suit, a guy who can shrink down really really small, a giant green id monster, another guy who’s part spider, a talking raccoon, and whole family of Norse gods — the list goes on.<\/p>\n
But not one of these people has that far more awesome and eerily inexplicable superpower possessed by our heroes from DC Comics: Just let these folks slip into an ordinary pair of glasses, and nobody will ever recognize them.<\/p>\n
How cool is that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Speaking of eyeglasses, I’ve always wondered about Superman and Supergirl, ever since I was a little kid. In the comics — and more recently in the movies and TV shows — these two superheroes can always walk about unrecognized, just by putting on a pair of glasses. Now, I don’t know about you, but if … Continue reading “Super glasses!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20204"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20205,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20204\/revisions\/20205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}