User blog comment:20thCentFopp/The First Avengers Team and Marvel Hierarchy/@comment-61022-20131028061342/@comment-4652104-20131028155056

I guess I have to agree with both of you at least in part.

It's true that a cliché is not cliché when it is used for the first time.

On the other hand, I prefer the theory that a literary work is liable to interpretation separate of its context and even (especially?) of authorial intent. It is interesting to analyse a work with the zeitgeist included, but it is by no means the only legitimate angle.

Also, I don't think it's true that these reviews are written from an entirely modern perspective. So far there has been no criticism of the dialogues being too "windy", nor any criticism of the art (which could be made against pretty much all 20th century comics).