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 Ellipsis is a narrative technique, used in films, books, and other such story-based mediums, which is the cutting out of a portion of an event or series of events, to either save time or to pace the story in a certain way. In Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow, this usually quite obvious but never noticed aspect is given particular attention:  Supergirl gets assaulted a lot supposedly, and a lot of the incidents are cut out for narrative sake. The whole story, being a travel narrative, does this quite a bit. The use of space travel is another scheme which uses ellipsis quite a bit. Space is of course an extraordinarily vast area, but the quick travel between planets (making them feel more like travelling between town to town) is waved away by unrealistically fast technology or some sort of wormhole, hypergate type explanation of almost instant transportation. But these are just general, and useful, techniques, whose use is so frequent and ingrained within all stories that a story w...

 To Whom It May Concern:  For Wonder Woman, I honestly don't have much to say. The psychology is interesting, but I feel like I could not make anything too original or interesting out of it. I suppose I will take this as my freebie.  Thank you and have a great weekend,  -Super Suds

 Becoming Batman is a 2008 book released about the training regime needed to morph your body into that of the hero Batman.  Of course, it is interesting to go over exactly how Batman's body works, and the amount of training he would need to morph oneself into the seemingly superhuman strength of the superhero known for just being a regular human. However, when looking at this book, a strange connection popped into my mind. Something from a distant comic book, far in the past.  These Charles Atlas ads were frequent in the 1940's within the pages of comic books. It promised any skinny or out-of-shape comic reader a path to becoming immensely buff, able to fight of any bullies or adversaries and attract beautiful women. The ads were quite bombastic, so they stuck in my mind.  Do these two pieces of comic paraphernalia not seem similar? Of course, comics are the epitome of escapist fiction, where readers often wish they were as strong, pure, and beloved as DC or Marvel's...