Half measures
The first page of this intro to comics does the job well, but in the second things take a turn for the patronizing. If we're accepting that comics are a medium, like film or the novel or whatever, and that thus comics do not necessarily entail superheroes (and we should accept this, I'm not arguing otherwise), can we please stop making contemptuous generalizations about comics that happen to feature superheroes?
Either it's all worth defending and appreciating, at least to the extent of appreciating that others like it, or none of it is.
[NB that last statement applies to aesthetic matters, not necessarily other ones]
Either it's all worth defending and appreciating, at least to the extent of appreciating that others like it, or none of it is.
[NB that last statement applies to aesthetic matters, not necessarily other ones]
