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[AndrewKorn]

tangletown wrote:
Might I suggest you take a gander at the Sandman graphics novels- truely groundbreaking stuff that lifted the business from the realms of being a kiddy market (There's even a retelling of A Midsummer Night's Dream in it).

Apologies to all for going OT, but I don't see how you can claim that. No disrespect to Neil Gaiman who's work I admire  greatly (although it amuses me hold a grudge about him nicking one of my ideas ;-) ), but it has to be said that "the business" never did get lifted from the kiddy market realms, as a lycra-and-bad-anatomy count through the covers in your local comic shop will clearly indicate.

The comic biz keenly fanfares some standout title as the thing that lifts them into the realms of serious art every few years, but clearly doesn't have the will to follow through.    

[AndrewKorn]

tangletown wrote:

But do you not agree that there is not a large variety of comics that focus on different subject matters other that the classic good V bad in tights; Strangers in Paradise anyone?
Browsed through any of Vertigo's offerings?

 I wouldn't say a "large variety", although there's certainly some great stuff out there. The thing is, there always has been - George Herriman was producing some amazing stuff 90 years ago. The problem as I see it is that there has been very little progression. Despite the claims, I see no real evidence that the medium has made any great advances in the main.
 Comics as a genre are barely younger than movies, yet there have been far more great movies than great comics. The 80's was supposed to be the decade that comics "grew up", but it seems to me that there's considerably less variety, experimentation and sheer quality now than there was then.