Oh, and as a spur of the moment "just because" thing, my wife got me the first trade paperback of China Meiville's reboot of "Dial H for Hero". It was, back in its day, a pretty cheesetastic comic - there's this magical phone-dial, not attached to a phone, and if you dial H-E-R-O, you become a random superhero. Not a random DC hero, usually. But random like completely new and made up concept just for the comic. But there wasn't a whole lot of story to it, and many of the heroes were kind of goofy.
Meiville has decided to create a mythology for the dials, where they come from, and what they do, and why you get such goofy stuff, and what happens to people who use the dials, and repeatedly take on the psyche of another person like that. Kinda neat.