Interesting choice!

Can’t wait for the movie by Zack Snyder!!! (see http://www.imdb.com – Watchmen for more info)

I was not a kid who identified with the Hulk. I didn’t think of The Thing as a surrogate for zitty kids. Instead, I wanted repulsor rays in my gloves. I wanted a fast black car. I wanted to be as physically capable as Captain America, but morally ambiguous like Batman.

In recent years, I’ve felt that if I had extra time to write, I’d have a really neat relaunch idea for Dr. Strange, Doc Midnight, and a few lesser used characters.

Who would I have the best chance of really being? Doctor Midnight. Blind dude who basically just throws smoke bombs and beats people up.

I identify with Holmes because he’s a bit of a loner, but he knows how to read people (that’s a superpower, right?. He’s a loner and makes a habit of applying out of the way and trivial knowledge to great effect. He’s an icon.

While he may have been difficult to be around, he values the friendship he has with John H. Watson, who we should remember, was a doctor. Not stupid by any stretch of the imagination, Watson seemed less intelligent because he was around the great detective. Holmes once said of Watson:
“It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it in others.”

Not a slam, but a compliment that Watson was a useful agent – like the violin, the tobacco, the many newspapers Holmes received every day – to help him in his line of work. When he retired to the Sussex Downs to keep bees (his Fortress of Solitude?), it was a well-earned rest after decades of crime-fighting.

One final thought: Detective Comics was founded with the original detective in mind. In certain issues, Batman actually refers obliquely to an ancestor who kept bees.