The one true art form

Apple pie originated in merry old England. Hot dogs, or frankfurters, are named after their birthplace - Frankfurt, Germany. Baseball is a bastardized version of cricket. The founder of Chevrolet, Louis Chevrolet, was Swiss. Jazz has African roots, and I'm not a big fan of jazz. But comic books began in the United States, and superheroes are distinctly American. Superman is our Hercules, Batman our Sherlock Holmes, Stan Lee our Homer. The feature length film also proliferated in the states, as the expiration of the patent on Edison's kinetograph was the unofficial birth of Hollywood. Although the first feature film is actually Australian, racist American D.W. Griffith turned it into an art form. To me, the comic book movie is the ultimate American art form. So even as gas approaches $4 a gallon, every other country in the world views Bush as an argument against a free democracy, everything on network TV is either a reality show or gets cancelled after 3 episodes, horse racing pregame trumps the Stanley Cup semis, baseball players peak at 40, NBA players can knee a guy in the groin as long as they stay perfectly still on the bench, and the Bengals have a hotline to report disorderly fans with multiple felons on the team, at least the comic book movie is stronger than ever!