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    Superheroes are what Marshal McLuhan called, 'cliche probes', meaning the superhero

    character is a stable and familiar cliche, that allows you to tell a story about the world around
    him. Gotham By Gaslight isn't about Batman, it's about our ideas about the Victorian era. The
    X-Men isn't about the life of Wolverine and Cyclops, it's about racism and alienation. Spider-
    Man's purpose isn't to show you the character development of Peter Parker, it's to show you,
    over and over again, why with great power comes great responsibility. In other words,
    superhero comics aren't about characters, they're about concepts.

    The kind of storytelling you prefer is actually a recent development, the character study, which
    basically came along with the Victorian novel. Before that, most storytelling was used as
    mythology, cultural model-making, informing members of a given society about shared virtues,
    vices and values. The lack of a shared cultural mythology or narrative is exactly the reason for
    the popularity of the superhero in America. We don't have any royal family or American born
    religious icons, we have Batman and Spider-Man.

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