He likes them! He really likes them! On his blog (first item), The Interman's Jeff Parker responds to criticism of comments he made about superhero comics in a Sequential Tart interview:

"Maybe I'll elaborate on the superheroes thing before people think I hates 'em. I don't! Me and Spidey are like this. But a couple of bloggers have taken my Sequential Tart interview the wrong way, especially Sean Collins who suggests I'm bashing superheroes to look all smart and with it. Believe me, I know I have no prayer of looking smart -- (unless maybe I start wearing a tweed coat with elbow patches, and a mortarboard on my head, that should do it), and I'm really not bashing superheroes. I draw them every now and then, and will happily read them, like Darwyn Cooke's excellent New Frontiers. There's plenty of room for superhero books aimed at longtime readers, Watchmen and Dark Knight cemented that back in the '80's. But I think the prime target should be kids heading into their teens, that's who the concept of empowerment -- at least the physicality of superheroes -- speaks to clearest. Not people my age. We still need escapism, but as I said in that extended metaphor, we've literally loved that genre to death.

"Now if you'll excuse me, I have to get back to working on the problem of Dark Matter."

(Thanks to Laura Gjovaag for pointing out Parker's response.)