ICv2 Talk Back - Confessions of a Comic Book Guy--Giving People What They Don't Want: "What I propose here is that we may finally have to accept the notion the super-hero comic book is a 'niche' genre; not because this vast mass audience rejects as silly our cherished adolescent power/revenge fantasies. From the way Hollywood has steadily been 'borrowing' from us over the last few years its clear America has developed a taste for the fantastic.

But as currently written and drawn, the super-hero comic book is just too overwhelmingly dark to appeal to them."

Leave it to my friend Steve to say what I was thinking better than I could myself...