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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 1241211" data-attributes="member: 8461">I disagree...there is no necessity in the fact that comics are held to a lower standard. The only grain of truth in that statement is that the comics of today deliberately do not aim higher because to do so would be to create a product that falls outside the range of what is expected of the omic format...which would, almost by definition, be something that would be lacking in profit to such a large degree that it could not survive.Needless to say, that's a very sad state of affairs (which is what prompted Scott McCloud's excellent books, "Understanding Comics" and "Reinventing Comics" which I recommend to everyone)!Comics are, at their core, just another communication medium. There is nothing truly inherent in them, anymore than there is in television of radio. The largest problem comics face is that somehow, over the course of time, we've come to expect them to have nothing but superheroes...making it, as I said, a self-fulfilling prophecy that anything beyond that tends to fail.The bottom line is that it isn't that comics are any sort of lower grade art form/medium...it's that we need to be more broadminded in regards to them.</blockquote>