As Usual, Spurgeon Explains It All

Those "defending" the current snuff-porn Hack Watchmen genre exemplified by Avengers Disassembled, Identity Crisis and Countdown to Infinite Crisis can stop now, as Tom Spurgeon explains it in terms even smelly, basement-dwelling virgins can understand:

If you realize that in a sense Blue Beetle has become better known as a plot-point snuff victim than he was for whatever modest thrills the entirety of his comic book adventures might have offered, you have to wonder what shape these companies are going for.

To put it in even simpler terms -- terms so simple even a DC writer could understand them: No one objects to conflict, drama, or violence in superhero comics. Some people just object to shitty, nihilistic, pornographic storytelling that does more harm than good to the creative value of a given property, especially one with untapped potential for growing a larger readership through the use of such currently-unheard-of techniques as "storytelling" and "hiring qualified writers."