I, unexpectedly, found myself in the position of writing about superheroes for the 'heroes'-themed August 2023 issue. It's a difficult topic for me as I have quite conflicted opinions about the genre of superheroes and how it has impacted the medium of sequential art that I love.
However, writing the piece gave me an opportunity to reflect on how I feel and what superheroes mean, and why I think their popularity persists. I found it interesting, and, in addition to the rambling, I did a couple of drawings of, e.g., a not-Batman doing a kickflip.
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