If I'm not mistaken they are Jimmy's relatives, but i don't recall from which side or what the exact relation is.

Also, c'mon, comics are filled with Jewish allusions, it's just a matter of time when they put in actual textual Jewish ceremony and not just characters.

Superman was created by Jerry Seigal and Joel Shuster, Batman was created by Bob Kane (nee Kahn) and Stan Lee created a bunch of Marvel characters.

We rock ;P

Supes, it wouldn't have killed you to have the wine.

So, Jimmy has some Jewish family? Who'd a thunk it.

Many people don't like Clark because of the whole boyscout rep, but I think he's secretly worried all the time that he could so easily take over the world. Plus the fact that he's totally whipped by Lois will always endear him to me.

It just proves that unlike Bats, he really is Clark Kent, Kansas farmboy and the Superman thing is just a job. Because if all you knew was Superman, would you guess that in reality he's a sub personality? That's the real reason no one figures out the Kent/Superman thing.

I mean, I love Batman, but the Bats is a nutjob, no doubt about it.

I find it strangely hot that Lois orders Clark around. I don't know what that says about me. **g**

Actually, though, my favorite by a wide margin is Nightwing, the Former Boy Wonder himself, Dick Greyson. How he managed to stay so normal while being raised by Bruce is beyond me. Of course the fact that he looks really good half naked and chained up does nothing to hurt his appeal.

I can't get into Nightwing/Batman slash for the most part. For me, they have such a fascinating (and screwed up) father/son vibe, that I don't want to see it sullied, so to speak.

That said, one of my favorite Nightwing stories is one where there is a nuclear bonb threat in NYC and the teen titans respond. Dick being Dick, he tows it out into space because he doesn't want any of the other team members to be in that kind of danger and the thing blows up.

Bruce being Bruce, he reassembles Dick's molecules but it doesn't quite work. Because Dick is now dickless. The story is currently something like 80 chapters long and isn't even close to finished. I'm not sure it ever will be. Anyway, what I love about it is it's a very realistic look at what would happen if you had an unwanted sex change operation, from having to relearn how to go to the bathroom, to dealing with the fact that you're a foot shorter and have a different center of gravity. Bruce is, of course, totally thrown, because all of a sudden his "son" is a hot 23 year old girl and Dick does't understand why Bruce is behaving so weirdly.
And that was a total ramble.

I've heard that the current Nightwing writer/artist is good, but I've been so disappointed the last few years that I stopped reading.

If you're interested, I can hook you up with some great fic. For whatever reason, I don't have any interest in comic slash for the most part. I tend to prefer stories that have action along with great character interaction. (Although my favorite Nightwing story may be heading toward slash, sort of, assuming the author ever finishes.)

I like the line at the end, where the balabusteh complains that Superman has no appetite to speak of! Excellent.

This is so cool!

You should post a link over at stilljewish...

From what I'm finding, Josef Schuman was a character introduced by Gail Simone in Action #831, as a reporter for the Daily Planet. His connection to Jimmy seems to stem from concern that Jimmy's associations with Superman lead him to take risks that endanger his life.

eat, eat, Supes, bubuleh, you didn't make much of a dent in your chicken zoop!

LOL!