Children love it. Adults emulate them (at least try to). What makes people to come back week after week to know the dilemma and events affecting the lives of superheroes? There are n no of superheroes in the reel world today being the savior of the world. Take superman in metropolis , batman in gotham and still counting.Why is the world so obsessed with superheroes? what is it about their lives that just throws open the minds of us, lesser mortals.
I recently got a handful of batman comics... batman year one, the long Halloween, the gotham central........gawd the creativity blew open my mind off. What is most unusual and rather striking for me was not the appeal of the hero, rather it was the vices of the anti heroes.
Apart from the magnificent canvases and the alluring effects, comics open up a world where the readers personify with their screen fellows and migrate into the false reality to tackle evil forces or in some cases be the evil.
Who would have thought reel was so real? The intermingling feelings and the allure of such arenas do open avenues where the readers completely lose themselves.