Author's note: Yep, it's Wednesday (evening, but still Wednesday) so here I am with another short snippet. I was just listening to that song the other day on my MP3 player (having forgotten I put it there) and when it ran I just grinned like an idiot all the way to my bus. Then I sat and wrote this in about twenty minutes. Writing while on the bus is a bumpy, messy business :o)
Disclaimer: Donovan owns the song and DC comics own the characters – and while I'm pondering buying or not the New Frontier comics (or DVD), I don't actually own anything. At all. Zip. Nada. Should I go on? :D
Snapshot Collection
4. Ear Worm
Superman can in all honesty say that he loves music. Some styles are definitely not to his liking, but he's always curious. Ma and Pa Kent didn't have much time for music back at the farm, so when someone brings music while on monitor duty, Superman listens.
He still hasn't given Flash back his CDs of Pet Sounds and the Platters' Greatest Hits.
Lately, though, Flash has taken to hum a song while on monitor duty with Superman – and it's always the same song. Barely audible to a human ear (although, judging from John's reaction to it, it must be just enough to be extremely irritating) but of course, to a Kryptonian, it comes close to a particularly creative form of torture.
Especially since Hawkgirl has taken it up, too.
And then, one morning during breakfast, Clark hears the song on the radio. And he listens to the lyrics.
"Any trick in the book now, baby, all that I can find … Superman or Green Lantern ain't got a-nothin' on me …"
Clark can't help but grin in his coffee.
'Sunshine Superman', indeed.
If someone has any idea as to the music those seven might listen to in canon (both comics and cartoon) I'd like to hear it. Although there are some stereotypes we can lean on, I think it's pretty open to interpretations :o)
Next up: Wally hasn't had his old stuck-in-super-speed nightmare for a while now – not since he defeated "Brainthor". But he doesn't know what he would give to have it back.