Soon I Will Be Invincible... Comix, Again?

Many recent books in the great Comicon Ouevre known as the graphic novel, etc etc, seem to make a lot about the literaryness of the medium.. Micheal Chabon, Neil Gaiman, etc etc... par example, witness this book review of Soon I Will Be Invincible, which compares it to a modern version of Rabelais. Please. But, etc. etc., if one is in search of what modern pulp has become, one must pay heed to the ancestoral roots of the comic form, etc. etc., and thus, resign oneself to a long sigh and a good settle down with a stack of old marvel or dc comix. Just remember, like an old fellow I recall, who became so engrossed in a late-70s LeCarre spy potboiler, the 1000 pages plus variety, that he forgot to drink, or eat, and peed and potted himself to the point where he had to be removed on a stretcher to a hospital for dehydration treatment: remember to drink.