There's mindless escapism in all media, though. Why should comics be the one where mindless escapism is the only thing available? That's like saying all films should be romantic comedies or all novels should be domestic drama.
Marshall McLuhan said the medium is the message, but that doesn't mean that form should be content.
All my fight strategy is based on deliberately injuring my opponents. -
Crippled Avenger
"It is the same in all wars; the soldiers do the fighting, the journalists do the shouting, and no true patriot ever get near a front-line trench, except on the briefest of propoganda visits...Perhaps when the next great war comes we may see that sight unprecendented in all history, a jingo with a bullet-hole in him."
First you get good, then you get fast, then you get good and fast.