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Not a bad way to distinguish either. Should send that message over to Marvel, might save the industry. One of the sadder things that's gone on in comics is that the brilliant creators that brought the art and writing to a new and amazing level (Frank Miller, Alan Moore and Neil Gaiman being the "big three") are also primarily responsible for killing the industry. I think it's great that we've got comics (graphic novels) for adults, but there's something seriously wrong with the industry having lost the ability to be sold (with a clean conscience) to people between the ages of 5 and 16.

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Even The Ultimate Spiderman has some safe-sex references and such and such that could make some parents reluctant to give it to a pre-teen. I think the idea that children are "little adults" has pretty much taken over and artists no longer know where any lines are.

My biggest problem with comics / science fiction / fantasy (circle all that apply) is that a lot of the current writers are/were fanboys and fangirls. And it shows because they often seem to want to tear up the works they enjoyed as children or copy them exactly. Fortunately a few, like Kurt Busiek, understand how to do a good homage and make it original.