You can open to almost any page of "Sutton" and find our hero uttering things like: "Hold on for dear life, boys.
Years ago, there was a comic strip called "Pogo" by Walt Kelly, and the possum who was its hero uttered a deservedly famous line: "We have met the enemy and he is us".
But when all the Gods are dead, and our anti-hero utters his ironic "Let there be light", it crossed my mind that arguably, it is Loki who rules the world we live in now.
It is a sentence that could have been uttered by Ellison's hero at his most baffled.
When the Mets took over the top wild-card slot, days before the end, my secret plan was to have them win the playoff and then to pretend an utter familiarity with these heroes while closely observing them and, in the divisionals, collecting their little ways at the plate and in the field.
"Grandfather," I said, and I explained everything that the hero had just uttered to me about Augustine, and the maps, and the hero's grandmother.
In all its self-centeredness, Florida State has decided to adapt as its fight slogan for the coming season the words uttered by an actual American hero, Todd Beamer.
As expected in such a story, Beirut is dotted with the requisite spook-type four-letter words, uttered with abandon by hard-drinking hero Gerald Lynch.
A "detective vision" feature in the interactive trailer maps out a possible method for Sherlock's dazzling illusion while another emphasises the hero's egoism as he utters the line "What life?
What's truly subversive and bracing is its utter lack of moral judgment, even as its hero slides into behavior most films would pillory.
They're soon joined by a sexy teller from their first job, who, despite our hero's baldness, beer gut and utter lack of charm, can't stop throwing herself at him.
