World
famous blogspot Papasgotabrandnewblog has picked up on rumours that Police in
the Bristol area are keen to interview the Bristol based artist who goes under
the name of Colin H. Reports have been appearing on the internet insinuating
that Ciln H is actually Superman in disguise.
An
anonymous blog post by an North American journalist called Jimmy O claims that
Superman fled to Britain as a youngster and changed his regular name (Clark
Kent) to something with "similar initials". The extensive post goes
on to present evidence from several conspiracy theories to demonstrate that
Superman retired in the 70s and that we don't remember “because of all the
fluoride in the water”. The author of the post, who claims to be an "old
friend" of the retired super hero, says that he believes Superman is
living in the Bristol area working as an artist. "He always loved art. He
used to do ice-sculpture in his Fortress. He said it helped him relax after a
hard-day-saving-the-planet.”
Jimmy
O claims he only wants to find his friend to wish him a happy 50th birthday on
July 15th.
The
link to Bristol based artist Colin H comes because of an exhibition by the
artist which features a piece called The Metropolis of Tomorrow (in collaboration
with Marcus Jefferies) that looks “the spitting image of Kandor” – the bottled
city that Superman’s arch enemy Braniac stole and shrank before Superman
recovered it and stored it in the Fortress of Solitude. Interestingly, Colin H
is also celebrating his 50th birthday today.
Initial
suggestions that this was all a big publicity stunt to draw attention to the The
Metropolis of Tomorrow exhibition which is on constant view at the Spike Island
Gallery have been dismissed given that the exhibition organisers will also launch
an inquiry into the uncanny resemblance between the main piece of the exhibit
and Superman's home city.
Happy
half-a-Century!!!