Well, I certainly see that Mr. Dixon gets it!

No wonder his work is so enjoyable!

Funny you should say that that, Patrick - look at this exchange and tell me you don't see the whole situation in a nutshell...

QUOTE: Who doesn't make mistakes?  I've posted a lot of things I regret.  I don't know. ========================= You've probably also remarked when you thought someone was being an ass.

Pretty much my only regrets are when I go negative.

Amen, Mr. Dixon. Amen.  

I have seen the light!

Up until now I have always acted like a capitalist, suggesting that while Super-heroes should be preserved, additional books and versions should exist for those characters if that is what the "market" demands.

Now I disagree!  If you want more adult characters and super-heroes, read a book about those characters.  Up until now I always wished that Watchmen featured the "real" Charlton characters.  Now I am not too sure.  Granted, my primary reason was to see the Blue Beetle drawn by Dave Gibbons throughout and within, but now I am glad that new "mature" characters were created for this "mature" title.  My only counter-point would be that up until then, the Charlton characters were virtually extinct and could therefore be changed forever into "mature" characters, never to go back to their "childhood roots".  I imagine it is this that Dick Giordano did NOT want to see happen.  If so, good for him!

However, "Ultimates", for example, is more the "Avengers" right now than is the "New Avengers".  It sounds like the same could be said of "Ultimate Siper-Man" though I do not know.  I do not read it.

Mike O'Brien, I still work in comics.

I'm as busy as I ever was. Mine are not the words of the disgruntled used-to-be. The lights remain on and the wolf is kept from the door by the work I really should be doing rather than posting here. (but it's FUN, dammit!)

But I have the courage of my convictions and moved away from the debacle of the no-longer-mainstream superhero titles.