While formulating today’s Question Of The Day, I asked my daughter (age 8) if there were any unanswered comic book questions that plagued her slightly more than half a dozen years on the planet. She looked at me, squished up her adorable little nose, and threw me for a loop with some high-octane comic query: “Why isn’t Iron Man made of steel?” She then proceeded to explain that steel is much stronger and easier to work with, making Daddy very proud in the process. I was going to explain to her about the half a dozen characters already named Steel when the QOTD leapt fully formed from my brow like Athena or The Great Gazoo…
The MS-QOTD (pronounced, as always, “misquoted”) is this: We have Iron Man, Steel, The Silver Surfer, even Little Iodine… Which of the remaining elements would make the best superhero identity?














