No love for Spandex: At Ninth Art, Alex Deuben recounts his grievances against the superhero genre:

"My issue with superhero comics isn't that they aren't capable of saying something, of being more than people in spandex with violent tendencies, but that they seem almost universally disinterested in being anything more than that. The writing tends to be simultaneously anaemic and overwritten to the point where I have to force myself not to grab a red pen and edit it. Most of the artwork I admit to being disinterested in - where I don't enjoy it or like it but I don't hate it either - and that seems to be the reaction most editors are actually looking for when selecting artists. That casual apathy seems to be what propels most successful superhero comics. The maintenance of an artificial status quo surrounding characters that cannot change."