Nostalgia...

Neil Gaiman in a recent Time Magazine interview:

I always loved, most of all with doing comics, the fact that I knew I was in the gutter. I kind of miss that, even these days, whenever people come up and inform me, oh, you do graphic novels. No. I wrote comic books, for heaven's sake. They're creepy and I was down in the gutter and you despised me.

I miss the old days when people who were into comic books were gutterfolk and creeps. With the advent of much Hollywood sound and fury, comics have attained a modicum, albeit minor, of respectability. It's just not the same, anymore...