That's what I loved about BATMAN & CAPTAIN AMERICA! Pure fun from start to finish! Out of all the things you've done, Mr. Byrne, It's in my top three favorites!

Alas, when many people try to do "fun" comics nowadays, it comes across as a spoof.

Who watches the Watchmen? Well, you know what? Nobody should NEED
to.

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Apparently the Romans wouldn't agree since they came up with the phrase "Quis custodiet ipso custodes?"

Who watches the Watchmen? Well, you know what? Nobody should NEED
to.

The question was worth asking. But it didn't need to become the only question.

Because I'm very, very old, I rediscovered comics in the mid-Eighties. I loved Born Again, Swamp Thing, Watchmen, The Dark Knight Returns, Batman: Year One, and Byrne's FF, Hulk, Alpha Flight and Superman. It may not be a very wide spectrum - it's all superheroes - but it does cover both sides of the corridor we're talking about here.

Fun can still be found in superhero comics, although it's not as widely available as it was then; the glumness isn't as good as the smaller amount of glumness then was; and things are happening in the mainstream which, if the industry was more successful (so that kids were reading comics, and parents saw what was being read), could break it.

IMP.

I would like to hear one credible scenerio where Batman beats Galactus.

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It's Christmas and Galactus has just received the latest version of Guitar Hero for his Xbox. Batman challenges Galactus to a head-to-head on the Allman Borthers Band's classic song Jessica. Agreeing to set aside the Power Cosmic for six minutes of fret-fraying fun, Galactus is soundly beaten by Batman, whose fingers fit the buttons better.