"I really hate superhero comics. Then Marvel comes to me with this character, and when they told me what it was I said, "Wow, that is even dumber than most superhero comics." This guy is the head of a multi-million dollar international corporation — that's a full-time job. He is also a scientist-inventor-engineer — that's a full-time job. And he wears a suit and goes out and save people?He's a superhero in a superhero world. People there are regularly genius inventor businessmen who fight crime. Wolverine can be on three teams and in five different books and still not need to have an identical twin to show up ina ll of them. Superman's only disguise is a pair of glasses, hair combed back and a slouch. It's a freaking genre convention. People put costumes on and fight crime. That doesn't work in the real world, but superheroes don't exist in the real world and attempts to shoehorn them in to one or add a sense of verisimilitude don't really work. They exist in a fantastical world where alien invasions happen every other week and New York gets destroyed and rebuilt in the intervening weeks.
It's the genre.
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