I mean, yes, I can appreciate the artist portraying these characters looking like real teenagers, but what's with the costumes? The headdress on the Scarlet Witch is particularly absurd.

There's an episode of STUDIO 60 in which one of the characters asks another to take a look at a script he has written for a third. The character reading the script immediately picks up on the fact that the guy who has written it is trying to impress the gal for whom he wrote it. "Look at all the words I know!" says the guy reading, by way of comment. That sort of defines the feeling I get looking at the way superheroes are so often portrayed these days. Sure, we're professional artists, and we're putting our stuff out there for public consumption, so we are, almost by definition, "showing off", but it seems all too often the imagery has become all about the showing off. "Look what a cool artist I am!" Unquestionably, this is what Neal Adams was doing, too -- but he kept that "showing off" always in the service of the characters.