Monday after lunch of the second week, we got into comic books again when a junior girl was trying to make a Black Widow logo/belt buckle. Wendy, I, and most of the campers in the hut got into a spirited discussion of how it should look. It was fun in general, and particularly so because Wendy kept bending over the table to sketch her arguments out.

When the period was over, I asked her enthusiastically, "So, do you like comic books in general or just Batman and Superman?"

Wendy smiled and replied that she was Team DC, but the Marvel movies were fun. "But I have bad news for you,"...