>>149540649
I feel like you're missing the core argument. Comics were for children, yes. This isn't being debated. But comics, even if they were for children, didn't always used to talk down to readers so much. You could go read X-men or Silver Surfer and the characters would speak in huge grandiose ways. They would reflect on life and their place in the universe. They took their own material very seriously and treated the drama with real pathos. Now characters all speak in memes. The drama is dumbed down. Comics back then were for children, but comics today are for idiots.