As I was fast-forwarding through the commercials on a TiVo’d episode of Judge Judy just now, I saw a clip from Desperate Housewives in an ad for Extra that got me thinking. It seems to me that if you’re not a Moore or Morrison in terms of ambition, the key to making a just-plain-entertaining superhero comic is to think “wouldn’t it be cool if…?”, then do those things. It helps to think back to what you thought would be cool when you were eight years old: “Wouldn’t it be cool if Spider-Man and Wolverine were on the same team?” “Wouldn’t it be cool if Magneto fought Iron Man?” “Wouldn’t it be cool if all the villains joined forces?” That sort of thing.
Well, the Desperate Housewives clip I saw, in which Eva Longoria got in a catfight with a nun, led me to believe that the show’s writers are doing the exact same thing, only with trash tropes instead of superhero tropes. “Wouldn’t it be cool if there were a catfight with a nun?” Am I right?