http://blogs.independent.co.uk| Blogs from the Independent newspaper - news, views and features from the world's most free-thinking newspaper| Mon, 20 May 2013 06:00:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2| en hourly 1 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/19/how-comic-heroes-became-mainstream/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/19/how-comic-heroes-became-mainstream/#comments Tue, 19 Jun 2012 02:00:37 +0000 Joel Meadows http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=25421 Back in 1992, the world had seen the likes of Batman on the big screen, doing reasonably well at the box office, but comic movies were a novelty that attracted a few cinema goers. Fast forward twenty years and the scenery has totally changed. Just take a look at the highest grossing films of all time.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/19/how-comic-heroes-became-mainstream/feed/ 2