I bought a subscription to Marvel Digital Comics. I've had fun going through old spider-man, fantastic four, and other early comics, and some of the more recent ones. It seems like in the old ones, it was all fun and games, even with heavily armed old-school gangsters that are way more competent than modern criminals. It was definitely kid stuff, although it makes for a fun read. The stuff from the nineties is kinda junkier. Some of the fights are amusing, and sometimes the characters are good, but its halfway between serious and silly. The more serious 2000s are good, but not as much fun. Which devolves into crap the longer Bush is in office, culminating in the cringe inducing Civil War event. However, post Civil War is fun, weird dimension travelling, zombies, skrulls, etc.
Another thing I noticed were that the more powerful a character, the sillier his enemies. Moon Knight (rip-off of Batman) fights psychos and weird conspiracies, and deals with being crazy. The Avengers fight um, well, a guy that can spin really fast in bladed armor. Which is so not menacing to guys like Iron Man (Tony Stark beats him with the junk in his pockets) . So they fight minions like that, and sometimes nearly die to a weird gigantic enemy, or hordes of aliens.
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"Another thing I noticed were that the more powerful a character, the sillier his enemies."
D&D Games often suffer a similar fate. After about level 10, the enemies get silly, pointless, and/or ridiculous, aside from the dragons. The problem with high power levels is they they have almost no connection with reality, so the writers can't keep anything real.
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