I’m not anti-Superhero per se — quite the opposite — I just have this crazy, over-fussy expectation that the splat of narrative entertainment I just bought for Whatever-Ninety-Nine should not in fact make my soul haemorrhage with the purple astral egobruise of disappointment. The sad truth is that far too many spandex-books are trading on the perceived awesomeness of the central character rather than any Tell A Decent Story standard.
Warren Ellis