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It’s hard to identify the shift unless you’ve read a lot of comics—and especially comics from more than about 10 years ago. After all, Superman is still faster than a speeding bullet. Spider-Man still does whatever a spider can. Absolutely nothing good happens to the X-Men.

DC Comics has made a science out of the 12-issue maxiseries. There’s something about a 12-issue series that you can’t get with a shorter book. It feels more weighty than the normal miniseries, giving creators the page real estate they need to tell a complete story. The best example of this is, as usual, Watchmen;…