Who's your favorite superhero? We've got a lot to pick from this summer.

Everybody loves a superhero. Just look at the movies. Our kids' heads are filled with dreams of superhero-dom, as we fill their toy chests with action figures, costumes, and props so they can pretend they're the latest champion of the universe.

This summer opened with George Lucas' newest installment in the Star Wars saga: Episode II Attack of the Clones. It re-energized the lore and lure of that extraterrestrial epic our nonlinear, postmodern version of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. Once again, all us "kids" long to be Jedi Knights empowered by the Force, mysterious and wise, armed with way-cool light-sabers, and wrapped in swirling cloaks. Who wouldn't find such characters attractive? Everything they do seems so gala…