Maher's cracks didn't please me, either. For various reasons, comics continue to suffer from an undeserved poor reputation in most of the English-speaking world...they're seen as kids' stuff at best, unworthy of adult attention. This is not the fault of the comics form, but of our culture, and even though there is quite a bit of adult-level material out there, the stigma persists.
I've never been much into superheroes, per se...Batman, now and then, is the only real exception. The only Marvel title I ever followed was Tomb of Dracula. And part of what I liked about it was that every major character, especially including Dracula himself, was far more three-dimensional than an anti-comics snob would expect to see. Dracula was presented not as a monotonous villain, like in the later Christopher Lee Dracula movies, but as a person with comprehensible feelings and goals, however evil they might have been...and he sometimes would do something worthy of the nobleman he had once been. Reading it, one understands why the angels weep
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I've never been much into superheroes, per se...Batman, now and then, is the only real exception. The only Marvel title I ever followed was Tomb of Dracula. And part of what I liked about it was that every major character, especially including Dracula himself, was far more three-dimensional than an anti-comics snob would expect to see. Dracula was presented not as a monotonous villain, like in the later Christopher Lee Dracula movies, but as a person with comprehensible feelings and goals, however evil they might have been...and he sometimes would do something worthy of the nobleman he had once been. Reading it, one understands why the angels weep ( ... )
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