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"We are in a golden age of superhero movies and the sales numbers today are just now starting to match the numbers of the late 90's -slump-."

See what I said about Balkanization. Plus, now there are also the digital and trade paperback sales to consider. Comparing single physical issue sales alone no longer says much, nor does it paint the whole picture.

There are more good comics available today, catering to a greater range of tastes than ever, than in any other era of the medium's history. I'm hard pressed to not consider that flourishing.

"Most of the most interesting and exciting comics aren't coming from the Big Two."

Yeah, but isn't that what should be the case? Isn't it right and proper that it's the newer stuff created for today rather than the stuff created for yesterday that is the most vital, the most relevant, the most interesting? We've come back to the point of the original quote there, which you agreed with.

You agree that we shouldn't keep clinging to the outmoded ideas designed for yesterday's audience, yet at the same time you view the diminishing relevance of those outmoded ideas not as their right and proper fate finally catching up to them but rather as some abnormal crisis that endangers the medium. That unless these old characters created for readers in the 40s and 60s continue to thrive, it's a problem. There seems to be a contradiction there.