The antidote to joy is dread.
“Lets not get started on their uniforms. Supermans stretchy spandex has nothing on Batmans sculpted pecs.He glared at her. You cannot bring fashion sense into a superhero discussion!If they wear it,...”
“Then I reminded myself that all intelligent children suffer bad dreams.”
“We ordinary people might lack your great speed or your X-Ray vision, Superman, but never underestimate the power of the human mind. We carry the most dangerous weapon on Earth inside these thick sk...”
“You can't live in dread of something for long without beginning to crave it.”
“Only the cruelest hunters set their traps with terror and trepidation.”
“Thin ribbons of fear snake bluely through you like a system of rivers. We need a cloudburst or soothing landscape fast, to still this panic. Maybe a field of dracaena, or a vast stand of sugar pine...”