"Superheroes!"

I’m reading “Superheroes! Capes and Crusaders in Comics and Film,” by Roz Kaveney. Kaveney, apparently, is “an acclaimed cultural commentator” in the U.K. The book, to some extent, seems to be a defense of superhero comics, which is often viewed as fodder for summer movies at best. Kaveney goes beyond the typical exams of high-profile heroes such as Batman and Spider-Man. In fact, one chapter is devoted to “Alias” — not the TV show, but the Marvel comic by Brian Bendis that introduced Jessica Jones to the Marvel universe and which no one outside comic book circles has probably ever heard of.