To the point that a lot of the story is about how Superman runs into problems because he buys into the idea that he's a savior figure.

I thought a lot of it was repetitive, but then suddenly int he last couple of arcs it turns into Ennis deconstructing *his own* typical protagonists.

No Deal?

Even Elektra wasn't too bad when she was a psychopath from Matt's past. The magical ninjas, on the other hand, just didn't work at all the more we saw of them.

Which is exactly the case in the comics, strangely enough.

Dancing (with white supremacists) in the Dark

And of course it means that women are portrayed as humorless scolds.

The argument is that they present men as helpless children who need women to do all the emotional labor and run the household, thereby normalizing the idea that men *shouldn't have* to do any of those things.

Clearly that WB executive is secretly a Marvel fanboy.

Because in Hell, everyone's…trick-or-treating all the time? Wearing costumes?

I'm not sure Todd McFarlane should go around using "intellectually" in sentences, especially sentences about Spawn.

Right: the problem most people just call "racism" is better understood as a set of behaviors — often unthinking ones built on passively received ideas — that, together, help institutionalize discrimination against and devaluation of some (often poorly) defined group of "others."

Within my pouches are merely more pouches.

This one's much worse; everything he says sounds more like a fortysomething man trying too hard to sound hip and relevant.

He's one of those Steve Gerber characters that no one else quite gets. the more recent versions have just been utterly unrelated vigilantes antiheroes with the gimmick boiling down to "the Punisher meets a Saw sequel."

It's just ninety minutes of broad accents, deliberately lame catchphrases, and Laugh-In-style scene transitions.

Though the major publishers are releasing tons and tons of limited edition variant covers; they don't do all the foil gimmicks, they just have various nostalgia-gimmick alternate images.

Meanwhile, I have been killed off on the grounds that I am too old and replaced by an irritating teenaged version of myself.

Clearly this wealthy corporate mascot will really stick it to…corporations?

The article argues two things, both of which can be true simultaneously: