User blog comment:20thCentFopp/A Hymn To Democracy: Fantastic Four vs. Sub-Mariner/@comment-4652104-20131206105644/@comment-4652104-20131206161508

"American experiment" - I love that phrase. Did you know that it was in fact used by people in the period. People used to write in their letters things like "if this experiment of ours survives the next 10 years..." Well, it most certainly did.

Agreed, Namor is a great character, even his vices are charming. He has the qualities which make monarchy and aristocracy so much more bearable than dictatorship and oligarchy - honor and class. Qualities all but forgotten...