Although, to be fair, a book that sets its bar at zero, such as Evan Dorkin’s Fight Man, can be a lot of fun. You’d look pretty silly complaining that Fight Man wasn’t, you know, deep enough. It’s unpretentious and ridiculous, and who can complain?

But sitcoms created Small Wonder, and I will never forgive them for that.

I agree with Jesse, I find the book has a nice twist. But, I also find it interesting that you are criticizing Love & Capes for living up to it’s billing. As you note it is billed as “the heroically super situation comedy comic book.” So, how can you dislike it when the author gets that pitch perfect? I guess comes down to a simple dichotomy: those who sometimes enjoy light entertainment will most likely enjoy Love & Capes; those who don’t, won’t.

Well, that’s pretty much my raison d’etre. I hope to reach a point where I can analyze everything and enjoy nothing.

I like the idea of a Spidey/Aunt May comic–a friend of mine once proposed releasing a version of Silver Age Spider-man with every panel with someone in costume excised, theorizing that it would still work as a soap-opera comic–but I would prefer the Peter/May relationship not to follow the rhythms of a Full House episode.

L&C is very successful at achieveing a particular esthetic, and I cannot begrudge people who like that esthetic their enjoyment of the series. Doesn’t work for me, though.

Unless it does. I mean, I can’t tell with this book.

You don’t read Love and Capes for gut-busting humor. You read it for likeable characters who are not cardboard cutouts, living moments that most of us can relate to. Which is pretty much the point – even the guy with super strength who can fly has to deal with the consequences of missing his personal commitments.

I’m a big fan of Spider-Man. In odd moments when I’m dwelling on the character and letting my mind wander into whimsy I’ve thought to myself, aside from the glimpses into Peter’s relationship with Aunt May that we get to see (usually in some way relating to a superhero crisis-of-the-moment), what about the moments that we don’t see? What’s it like when Peter drops over her house to mow her lawn for her, or fix the cable box that’s on the fritz, or just stop by to have tea with her and ask her how her week went. The focus being on May for a change, and not Peter exclusively.

Stuff like that is too inconsequential in the context of a typical superhero comic, but it’s a question that Love and Capes tries to answer.