Summer Movies & Superheroes

Ross Douthat & Dana Stevens talk about the summer movies, and the "glut" of superhero / comic book movies.

Both seem to feel that its all too much at once. They grasp for reasons why they have proliferated. Apparently they think there's just too much of them and the concepts and characters are recycled too much. 

When they discuss where Hellboy fits in the comic book pecking order, they acknowledge that they could have really used someone with knowledge of comic books in the discussion. With both of them hating on the genre, I agree.

A pundit who's knowledgeable about comics culture… I wonder where they could have found one. (Yeah, okay I'm not exactly an A-list online pundit. Heck, I've yet to crack the N-List.)

But, too many comic book movies? There ain't no such thing. Face it, the geeks have won the culture wars.