I first read Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow? by Alan Moore and Curt Swan & George Pérez when I was 5 years old; my parents got it for me for my birthday, no doubt hornswaggled into thinking it...

Any two-bit pop culture historian will tell you that The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller and Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons pushed superhero comics into previously unseen realms of darkness and...