I forgot a had a few audio downloads of short stories from Barnes & Noble. Super Goat Man
first appeared appeared in the New Yorker, and later in Men and Cartoons. The audio was read by the author.
Everett grows up in Super Goat Man’s neighborhood. By that point, Super Goat Man has retired from being a minor super-hero. Later Everett attends a college where Super Goat Man teaches. There he witnessed drunken frat boys goad Super Goat Man into rescuing them from a tower on campus. Only the rescue failed and one of the frat boys is injured severely. Flash forward a few more years and Everett returns to campus to interview for a position, only to find out his wife had an affair with Super Goat Man.
Super-heroism doesn’t have a lot to do with the story actually. It’s pretty run-of-the-mill story about jealousy. Everett actually has some level of disdain for Super Goat Man, and then finds out his wife had the fling. That turns his disdain to bitterness. Reminds me of a scene in Clerks. Kind of underwhelming as a story.
