This pointless back and forth and relentless, deliberate missing of the point is making me wish there was an "ignore" button for whole threads!

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No; I get your point.  The trend we've been discussing just doesn't bother me or detract from my enjoyment of Morrison's work.  I'm not suggesting anyone else is wrong for feeling differently.

That's just silly, Patrick.  There's nothing out of the ordinary about clothes, but kids get picked on for what they were all the time.  You honestly can't see a super villain trying to denigrate a hero by any means necessary, even picking on their costume to get under their skin?

The last one is posted for irony.

Well, that's what confused me too because Batman was anything but drugged in Son of the Demon - which I really liked, by the way.  I even had the print of the cover framed up.

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Don't be naive, the key words here are "drugs" and "rape". Everyone knows that if a writer drops any references to that, it means that he is a big super clever intellectual with a hugest IQ.

Having said that, I still enjoy BatMan and his all stars SuperMan is a blast though I'll never understand why it takes so long to come out. There's barely any backgrounds in it. The characters are super stiff and the staging is pretty 123 fischerprice. So I don't understand why it's not monthly.

As I've said here before, today's "fan's" are no different from the rest of the general public who love to make fun of anything that came before they did, making themselves look cool in the process.  It's pathetic how no retrospective that even mentions the era of the 1970's can refrain from making snotty remarks about bell-bottoms and polyester, for instance. 

I believe it was a recent issue of Back Issue magazine that I was reading that had an article about Supergirl and beneath a picture of Kara wearing her 1980's costume with the headband, there was a photo of Olivia Newton-John from the Physical album also wearing a headband.  The copy betweent he pictures stated in a condescending way that Olivia's look had influenced Supergirl's costume.  Once again, demeaning something from the past that wasn't considered dorky or stupid at the time at all.  Besides, has the writer of the article never seen the pre-crisis version of Krypton, where headbands were a common fashion?  If so, maybe he isn't the person who should be writing the article, huh?    

I think that Morrison thinks that superhero costumes are silly looking and he has repeatedly voiced this opinion through the character's voices.  This is almost the same thing as when writers insist on putting their political beliefs in comics the same way.  Paul Jenkins lost me as a reader forever when he had Spider-Man refer to Captain America as "the jarhead from another era".  Anyway you look at it, it's disrespecting the characters and all that has gone before.  And to some of you out there, that doesn't matter.  But to many of us, it does.