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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rackhir" data-source="post: 1657908" data-attributes="member: 149">The lack of diversity in american comics was something that my students commented on when I was teaching English in Japan and I passed around some american comics for them to look at. The american comics market was at one point far more diverse. For example Jack Kirby for example did a lot of work on romance comics and of course there were the horror comics like "Tales from the Crypt". I believe it was a combination of the WWII paper shortage and the whole "Seduction of the Innocent" flap that caused a catastrophic collapse in the range of the comics market. The Superhero stuff wound up as the sole surviving species. However, the range of what's available in the US has been gradually widening since the introduction of more adult oriented titles like "Batman : The Dark Knight" and Watchmen. So given another 20 years or so we might yet see a broader comic range, but we will have to see.Grey is a lot closer to something like "Colossus :The Forbin Project", the idea of a computer taking over the world was not new long before Grey was ever conceived. What "The Terminator" brought to the mix that was original was the time travel aspect of things and the unstoppable juggernaught humanoid killer robot, combined with Cameron's feel for technology and Arnold in the roll he was born to play. Nothing about that is really mirrored in Grey.</blockquote>