The Shelf Is Full Dept.

Much discussion as of late in the "are there too many comic book movies now?" rubric:

Are Too Many Heroes Coming to the Big Screen at Once? | MovieBob - Intermission | The Escapist

Comics (and thus superheroes), then, aren't a genre but are up until recently a "niche," and it's my read of the situation that the rise to prominence of this particular niche is likely seen as vaguely threatening to established critics of certain vintage. Cultural awareness is THE intellectual currency among art and...