It's time for the superhero genre to stop upping the ante. When it comes to capes and superpowers, I want the ante to go down. With the current output of superhero fare, the stories are strongest when the stakes are lowest.
Take Gen V, for example. The Boys spin-off series, which follows superpowered youngsters enrolled at the Vought-run Godolkin University, is at its best when the plot deals with adolescent mundanities rather than potentially catastrophic disasters. To be honest, the wider superhero lore is secondary to me – it's the characters that I care about, teen angst and all.
