I'm guessing 'graphic novelists' had 50 years to work out interconnecting plots and create new characters.

Bill Mahre says Marvel villains and heros are always fighting over a dangerous Blue Shiney Thing (Cherenkov radiation?) or the invisible.

people who can not suspend their belief will miss out on lots of fun and are probably old poops.

As for me. I'll wait for HBO and make pop corn with sesame oil and probably fall asleep