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late in the office, you can go see it and take calls on your smartphone if needed. What I’m getting at is this is where the acceptance came from.

These worlds that many of us have been in since we were children have become acceptable not because they got cooler, but because people actually have the time to enjoy them. So what we hope to accomplish with this book is to explain what happened with the superhero genre. Because a lot of the first movies were incredible and were listed as some of the best movies of all time. But eventually, superhero movies fell into a gutter of trying to sell topical ideas and toys.

That should have been the end of many superhero series, but a lot of companies realized they can try again. We’ll be looking at some key franchises and how they rose, fell, and rose again. The fact taht they can rubber band back so easily has created a weird situation for the superhero genre in which companies are repeatedly making similar movies until the movie-going public enjoys one of them. But I can’t argue with success, and we have now gone from a successful movie to superhero movies ranking among the highest grossing films of all time, elevating these superheroes and the fans of comic books.

We as geeks and nerds have gone from the outcast to the cool individuals who know all the fun facts you’ll never get in a movie. Now our goal is to educate you about what has happened with each of these movies, and then to present the opinions and reviews of these movies from a nostalgic old comic book reader and a comic book reader that jumped on board in the recent years with the new material. You will also notice entire segments for Superman and Batman while Marvel is lumped together.

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