Willingham Calls For End To "Superhero Decadence;" Comics Fans Freak Out
Over at the new conservative showbiz-opinion site Big Hollywood, Fables creator Bill Willingham—interviewed here by our own Tasha Robinson—wrote a short column decrying the decline of the superhero genre into excessive violence and moral ambiguity. While admitting his own culpability as a superhero comics writer/artist in the past—and while allowing that comics are a broad enough medium to allow for mature explorations of complicated social issues—Willingham calls for a return to more straightforward notions of heroism in stories featuring some of America's most iconic superhero characters.
