When fall rolls around, one hit show will be noticeably absent from NBC’s prime-time lineup: “Heroes.”
At one point, the show was one of NBC’s biggest ratings-getter, but viewers have been flocking away since the first season’s finale.
We wanted this to be a sign that the superhero phenomenon is coming to an end, but the network is planning to launch a similar show, “The Cape,” in its place.
In the last 10 years we have been inundated with movies about every B-list superhero that comic-book companies could spit out, and most of us can probably tell you more about Peter Parker’s childhood than our own. It was fun at first, but this fad’s grip on American culture has become unbearable.
We are looking forward to a time when people are no longer telling us the latest Batman movie is high art, how they were reading Frank Miller before he was cool or pointing out why the latest X-Men movie was unfaithful to the source material.
A few years back we scoffed at stories about 1960s parents who said comic books would rot your brain, but we are starting to come around.
Comics are childish and simplistic, and it is about time the entertainment industry found a new foundation.
