My pal Danny Fingeroth has written a clever new book about the psychology of superhero-dom called Superman on the Couch and I sure enjoyed my copy. You can get yours by clicking here and you can hear a good interview (it's about eight minutes) with Danny over here on this National Public Radio page. Danny says some interesting things about the nature of heroism (super or otherwise) and about what it means to those of us who live vicariously through the super-guys, and provides a new way to look at some old conventions of the genre. Oh, yeah — and there's a foreword by Stan Lee, too. That makes it all official.