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"I always refer to it as Soprano syndrome. When The Sopranos became popular the idea of liking these flawed characters began to permeate everything. Suddenly all these shows were making their characters unlikable to be “edgy”. But there is a big difference between liking bad guys and just making unlikable characters. This is something comics is really fucking awful at, to be honest. Most people in American comics grew up reading stuff like Superman and Captain America, real morality tales. And that has colored the creators books, the taste of publishers, and the predilections of readers. We are at a point now where people expect their heroes to be infallible and I think that is so boring. I don't want morality lessons from Wolverine. I've seen him kill more people than heart disease. Batman is a billionaire who beats up the poor and the mentally ill. That doesn't mean we can't love them and we can't learn from them. The same is true of Duncan and Madison. I don't want you to kill people and steal things, but they aren't there to be role models."

- Matthew Rosenberg


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