They write things like this.
Even aside from its solely ignorance-based conflation of all comics with superhero comics, it reflects that unique head-in-the-sand avoidance of innovation and mass culture in the guise of Standing Astride The Stream Of History Yelling Stop that is cultural conservatism. They’re still fighting the late ’60s culture wars in a way that’s just as embarassing as their liberal nemeses’. It’s also fairly entertaining to note that the rhetoric here employed is completely indistingushable from that of the rabidly Bush-hating socialists who likewise view the superhero genre with apoplectic disgust. Which once again proves my theories about political extremists: Weak minds think alike.
(Link courtesy of Kevin Melrose.)
UPDATE: Franklin Harris has links to responses from other conservative writers who think superhero comics are just fine, thank you very much. (He also indulges the stupid desire to use the word “chickenhawk,” but whaddyagonnado.)