I have one of those science fiction/fantasy movie books with a chapter on comic book movies, and it is fairly sad, simply due to its narrow scope. It is an early book and doesn't include any of the current comic book movies. They were scraping to bottom of the barrel to mention Spiderman TV movies, Brooke Shields' Brenda Starr, etc. Just by widening their scope a bit they could actually have had a decent chapter, even at that time.

I do see we are having a comic film renaissance, but more than anything it is simply possibly due to too cheap special effects. These films would have been impossible to make before, now we are being inundated with them. This is not necessarily a good thing, because too much energy is being spent on something that can easily end end up being quite repetitive, as not much care is being put into them. Eventually the public will get sick of them, and they will have run their course.

"There is a lot of money tied up in this film and people expect to hear a boom when something blows up, so I'll give them a boom."

George Lucas as quoted by Harlan Ellison's WATCHING