This tells me that in very large numbers, people do not see anyone on the leadership scene at any level who inspires confidence.
I'll go one further. As a big X-Men, FF, and Avengers fan---even JLA if they got rid of Batman and Superman---what made those teams so appealing and all-American was that each person had distinct talents that were entirely individualistic, but not super-powerful. To defeat the bad guys took team work, but not communist-style teamwork, American individualistic team work. You NEVER forgot the Human Torch's individuality, or the Angel's appealing arrogance, or Iron Man's secret weakness. Usually, the movies captured this in their first iteration.
Comics lost me when the villains got to be so titanic, so (literally) galactic that really no combination of human effort could stop them and it was only intervention from god(s) like the Silver Surfer that people gained victory.
BTW, "Cowboys vs. Aliens" looks terrific, with or without 3-D.
Hmm. Is this a reference to Galactus? He appeared in 1966, so you've been off superhero comics for 45 years in spite of being that big of a Fantastic Four fan as you claim? And Norrin Radd was not a "god" in the comics at all (and was quite powerless compared to his master Galactus), although Thor was supposed to be (i.e. one of the Aesir)—his debut was in 1962.
Comics lost me when the villains got to be so titanic, so (literally) galactic that really no combination of human effort could stop them and it was only intervention from god(s) like the Silver Surfer that people gained victory
I’m interested in seeing Cowboys & Aliens myself but I just can’t deal with the noise they blast out in the theatres. And a lot of the action scenes in the trailer just seem waaay to fast and confusing.
(Dang.... I’m turning into my old man as I speak!)