You still don't read the comments you get, do you?
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Why are you so obsessed with age? Also, why does it need to be R rated?
Some comics are going to translate better if you can go R. Like if you want to portray something truly cruel, dark, painful, tragic, I feel like you're not really going to get that on anything less than an R. Like DC's Identity Crisi. Or you could just look at movies that did come out like Logan, or Deadpool. If there's a Peacemaker film you probably would want that rated R.
Those plots aren't for teen superheroes. There's plenty of adult content that fills that gap too. Hell, X-force Sex and Violence delivers exactly what the title says it does.
Superheroes in general are boring and for manchildren.
I actually like Peter in the recent Spider-Man games. He’s has a day job and adult responsibilities throughout. Miles is at the tail end of high school, so you still get the teen story (but no focus on love interest!) in the MM game, but then back to a focus on adult responsibilities for SM2.
USA seems to be very high-school obsessed generally. It seems that there really is a strong nostalgia for a time when you had time and ambition and potentially could be anything and were finding your real self and navigating your first relationships. Also, I wonder if comics used to be solely of interest to teenage boys at some point decades ago and it was much more successful to write stories they could relate to. Older readers would be able to relate to a time they've lived through anyway.
Teenage stories have a place, but I agree it's way overdone. I enjoy the more grown up superheroes a lot more. Peter Parker is much more interesting when he's an adult. Daredevil is much more interesting for being a working lawyer and this complementing his superhero work.
I disagree. I find teenage super hero stories the only enjoyable ones. I don't want my heroes to have to deal with quotidian grownup issues like paying the mortgage, having to work overtime, or worrying about their octogenarian parents. I want the biggest issue in their universe - apart from saving Earth from total destruction by a comical villain - to be the history paper that is due next Monday or how mom reduced their pocket money. I prefer the simplicity of interpretational relationships in a school setting. There is the bully jock and the nerdy girl who when she takes her glasses off becomes instantly attractive. Give me all the tropes. And I don't need or want an R rated version of all of that.
In closing I just want to take a moment and applaud your personal growth. In showerthought after showerthought you've struggled with people dating much older people. And in this one you're quite open to and positive about a twenty-something dating somebody twice their age! Well done you.
I don’t want my heroes to have to deal with quotidian grownup issues like paying the mortgage, having to work overtime,
They don't have to; most of the time their jobs aren't even really important to the overall story; they're just there to explain what they do during the day or just to have another setting. And as for paying the mortgage, you don't have to go into detail about that or show it; just give the character some "easy" or "explainable" day job and have them live a middle- or middle-upper-class lifestyle, and you're good.