This weekend's Comic-Con proved that superhero flicks are here to stay, and yet the stakes rise all the time.
What is encouraging is that hundreds of schools around the country are proving that it is possible for talented, committed teachers -- but not absolute superheroes -- to put whole buildings of children on different life trajectories.
Sixty years of Avengers comics proves that the idea of superheroes teaming up works".
Though they might be carrying a few extra pounds, some gray hair and wrinkles, the superhero series proves that strength really does come in many forms.
'Deadpool' Ryan Reynolds, in one of the year's biggest box-office hits, proves that it's O.K. to curse in a superhero movie.
Moreover, Vaughn should bear in mind that his own Kick-Ass movies might easily have tanked had Nolan's pioneering work not proved that there is a place for big-screen superhero fare not aimed at kids.
Iron Man proved that you don't need to adapt one of the better known superhero series in order to make a decent film, and I think the jury's probably still out on Green Lantern.
Her argument before the Supreme Court to prove that the death penalty was cruel and unconstitutional swerved from slavery to superheroes to linguistics to racism, and finally to pain (very topical).
Even box office numbers prove that when the Ghostbusters reboot couldn't even muster the same numbers as a superhero or action film.
