FEEDBACK is hopefully not alone in having spent too much time at school becoming rather good at working out where soccer, rugby or other balls were heading, precisely in order to be somewhere where a high-velocity animal bladder covered in freezing mud was not. This seemed rational at the time and still does, but such an unsportspersonlike attitude left us distinctly short of action figures to identify with.
No longer. “Spiderman and Superman beware,” The Edmonton Sun announced earlier this year, “a new Canadian superhero is poised to take a byte out of the toy market. GeekMan is a 15-centimetre-tall plastic model figure resembling a computer…
