//------------------------------// // 78: Superman by VelvetHeart // Story: Xenophilia: Shotglass Oneshots // by TheQuietMan //------------------------------// Superman by VelvetHeart ***************** Small, scaly, clawed fingers gripped his, Lero's own folded around the smaller hand. Clawed toes pat-pat-patted alongside Lero's longer steps, slowed to help Spike keep up. Around them, a steady current of ponies ran through the convention halls, their fresh loot (and lighter moneypouches) filling their saddlebags. "That's... a lot of powerponies," Lero marvelled, a little amazed at the sheer mountainous amount of comics arranged on almost a score of tables, manned (mared) by no few than nine salesponies. For a moment, Lero let his eyes wander along the various tables with their artists, producers and sales-staff of a surprising variety of small-to-medium comic-companies, occasionally moving to follow Spike's excited hand-tugging. This stuff really was booming business in Equestria! He was a little old for comics himself, but it was gratifying to see the little dragon enjoying himself so much. Power Ponies, Mystery Mares, The 'Magic Force', something that looked suspiciously like the Element Bearers in costumes, something involving mares in medieval armor wielding flaming swords, something... ...holdon there. Lero looked again, then again. "One moment, Spike." Quickly, Lero dragged his little charge to one of the other tables and reached out. For a moment, he felt like he could cry. "It's superman. Ponies actually have superman. As a stallion, not a mare!" Holding the comic aloft, an otherwordly-piece of his childhood, back when he still wore Superman pyjamas as a little boy. "Superstallion." Even the S on his tight spandex costume was the same. It didn't matter that some mares stared as he hungrily leafed through the pages, he was just happy to have some kind of tenuous link to his childhoo- Lero stopped, closed the comic, and placed it back on the table, and sighed. "I should've seen that coming, I've seen enough hentai."