Sandman: Granite California

Heroic father Amlan and adopted-idealistic wannabe-hero young-son Yang chase the venomous sand-particles comprised mutant 'being-specter' of Hell, the shape-shifting 'captain' Sandman (in California).

Sandman (Marvel Comics) story. Thanks for reading (Happy Xmas, all) 

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AMLAN: I'm glad we're co-detectives on this incredible Cali-Homeland case, son.

YANG: I'm so happy you adopted me, father...and we can catch this Sandman, ha.

AMLAN: This is no customer of the arts, sonny...in-deed, he's become the Devil!

YANG: He was an escaped criminal who had a field-chemical crash, dad?

AMLAN: His bio-molecules transformed into malleable sand; he makes weapons.

YANG: He makes weapons with sand, father?

AMLAN: Anything he wants...but it's not like water, Yang...it's like darkness (ok).

YANG: We'll catch him, dad (Facebook-like).

Amlan, an idealistic crime problem-solving man of the American Homeland, found good onside-cleats having become an adopted Catholic father. An immigrant and then citizen of the States, Amlan wanted his son to practice target-shooting in their shared Cali-home backyard, with a 'cool' water-gun he got him for Xmas-'25 (ok). Young son Yang knew that sand would turn into harmless muddy soft things with water-contact, and detective-hero Amlan wanted Yang to become his 'cool' Earth-American sidekick for chasing a venomous mutant-accident transformed 'super' villain composed entirely of sand-particles...an ex-convict turned 'being' named Sandman (Selfie-like).

SANDMAN: I strike this Cali-Homeland eatery/dive for some Hell, with you as aid.

POLICEMAN: This is insane, Sandman...first you take me hostage and now this?

SANDMAN: You question me, I'll scare ya to death, since I'm made of sand, fool.

POLICEMAN: Hey, Sandman...I appreciate you keeping chameleon-form as human.

SANDMAN: That's my half-power, policeman; I can maintain my pre-mutation face.

POLICEMAN: So, I walk in claiming I'm a nutty-cop and you come in after, Hell?

SANDMAN: Don't fail me, policeman, lest I shoot some disastrous sand in your face.

POLICEMAN: Right (Selfie-like).

Amlan and Yang zoomed to the Cali-Homeland (pizza) dive where Sandman had threatened to make a dark spectacle that bad season of Earthling jitters. Of course, no one but heroes Amlan and Yang took the (cyber) blog seriously! Yang ran out of their (rented) car with plastic color/stickers pasted to make it look like a harmless taxi-cab and repeatedly fired his water-gun at Sandman's face and arms and legs, turning him into a muddy rendition of his super-chameleon strength 'former' self (ok). Hero Amlan (father) then ran up behind the sand-particles comprised mutant 'being' of darkness and put him in a very large wheelbarrow and covered it with a heavy piece of glass (ha). They told the police and SWAT who arrived just some-time later, "Sandman ain't nuthin but criminal-insanity incarceration/rehab materialism for the gods, gentlemen (Facebook-like!)." Yang hugged his hero-dad (Amlan) and yearned for some post-heroics Xbox-time (Summer Games!).

"Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about" (Ralph Waldo Emerson). 

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"Money is everything" (Ecclesiastes)