The best superhero comics that have ever been created are both completely timeless and completely of their time.
My feeling about mainstream, monthly superhero books is that they should contain more invention, be more daring, take more chances… because they can.
Comics are such a direct form of communication — even superhero comics — why waste them saying absolutely nothing?
Doing a run on Superman or the X-Men is no longer the career pinnacle it used to be, it no longer means you’ve achieved the highest level possible as a comic book creator.