Green Lantern

The “childhood hero” thing has kind of a double meaning. Yeah, I thought the Green Lantern was pretty cool, but I also idolized my dad. And in a lot of ways — in fact, in a lot more ways now than before — I still do. I was at the folks’ house the other day for Dad’s birthday and helped him move some stuff around in the basement. (That was ancillary to the birthday stuff, not how we celebrate. We’re strange but not crazy.) In doing so, I came across the old…