Yeah, it's nice to be able to discuss things without feeling you're under personal attack every time you disagree about something, and thanks to everyone who made this place possible.

In regards to Morrison, et al, I'm sure their intentions are as you describe, but like I said before, I think in their effort to show that potential through the adventures of superheroes, they fall into the trap of exalting those superheroes to such overblown levels of power and/or moral superiority that they become the worst kind of wish-fulfillment fantasy.

On a side note, I think this is why Morrison hasn't been able to write a good New Gods story and Hickman won't be able to write a good Eternals story if he ever tries: those story-concepts are about something other than showing the greatness of the human spirit and when they try to incorporate characters from those series into their superhero books they almost always end up using those characters as props to show how superior our superheroes are by contrast. So you get Hickman writing about how earth's heroes have driven off Celestial invasions like the FF drove off Galactus, or Morrison having Batman say "Boo!" to Metron or etc, etc.