Do you like Butter Pecan ice cream? I don't particularly. I'd go with pistacchio in a second instead or even cookies and cream which is like a little slice of heaven. I'd even take a double dutch or a rocky road, strawberry or plain old vanilla but taking butter pecan will never have crossed my mind.

Now what brought this to mind? Did I suddenly have a craving for ice cream that I decided to write about it? Not really. I got back Identity Crisis a little while ago and read the start of it. There was an interesting story that revolved around Butter Pecan that I found really sweet and endearing, something that doesn't often happen.

It starts with two superheroes (Firehawk and Elongated Man) on a stakeout, waiting for something to turn up. To pass the time, Firehawk (Lorraine) asks her partner Elongated Man (Ralph) about how did he meet his wife. Of course, Ralph was a bit apprehensive of answering the question as he asked why is it always the girls who ask that sort of question. It was a sort of witty retort to divert the question but he answered it anyway saying that, "We saw each other across a crowded room," a typical cliche'd start of a love story haha but that wasn't meant to be a joke because as he followed up, "the one thing I don't joke about is Sue"

They met when he crashed a debutante party one night. It was really a chance encounter but the thing that really made it special was that, they met when Central City was the Flash's town. You know the Flash, fastest man alive right? He's pretty famous. Almost everyone knew who the Flash was, comic book world or real world. Heck, who knows Elongated man anyways? I sure didn't until I read this comic... but moving on, It was the Flash's town and our guy, Ralph was still a no-name superhero back in this day. I loved it when he described the feeling as, "trying to compete with Sinatra" because it was true, everyone in the party took notice of Flash since he was the man. No one noticed Mr. No-Name Ralph that is.... except Sue.

I guess that's how they fell in love. The succeeding panels showed how Sue met all the other heroes; the strongest, bravest, and the one with the best looks in the bunch, "c'mon, she's looked directly into superman's melt-your-heart baby blues, and she still chose me" as he said with a sheepish smile. How about that? Isn't that sweet? I really love the words Meltzer used for this scene because I was completely floored when I read this but then why did I start this whole thing about Butter Pecan ice cream? Well... that's because I remember this line Ralph said when he and Sue first met.

"That's why ice cream stores don't just sell Chocolate and Vanilla. Every once in a while, someone walks in and orders Butter Pecan."

Aww, I found this really sweet. I guess it really does take someone special to take notice of a Mr. Nobody. Imagine that, Sue still chose Ralph though he might not be the strongest, bravest or best-looking out of all of them, she still chose Ralph - Butter Pecan.

I wonder if I'll ever encounter such a person in my life. I'm more of pistacchio myself, a little green as well as nutty haha but you get the point, no one really orders butter pecan or pistacchio on the first chance - it takes someone special to do that. Me? I guess I'm not very good in searching for these things or finding that special someone, I think it's probably one of the things I'm bad at. In any case, I really loved the message of this story; it's sweet and endearing like I said. I just hope someone walks in my life and orders say, pistacchio in a sugar cone but that's probably hoping for a lot.

*Sigh* almost everyone wants Chocolate nowadays -_-