The comics I read as a kid were much more influenced by TV and movies. Encountering superheroes as an adult without that kind of childhood sentimentality, it just doesn't allow you, or in my case at least, it wouldn't let me take the characters seriously.
“At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.”
“Nice, the club where I started my career in 1983, want me to see out my playing days there.”