Oh the joys of being a comic fan in the age of the Internet

I love the internet and I spend a lot of time on it, reading news, going to fan-sites, reading and posting on board, etc. I have to say though, that my comic reading was a lot better before the internet. And this isn't a condemnation of comic boards in whole, just specific things that drive me up the wall.

But mainly it's the "suspension of disbelief" arguments that get me. It'll go something like this, say in the recent comic Superman fights Lex Luthor and an alien that looks like Marvin the Martian who has the power to turn Superman's hair into flowers.

Now, being someone who likes a reasonable level of believability in stories, I might post that while I enjoyed the fight with Luthor, having Superman's hair turn into flowers was a bit much.

Inevitably someone will ask "So you're able to accept that Superman, an alien, has come to earth, gotten super powers, died and come back, but you can't believe that Marvin could turn his hair into flowers?"

Now, I understand that some people have been reading since the Silver Age, when strange things happened as a matter of course and imaginary stories were par for the course. But there is a line, and it's a fine one at that, I grant you, but it's a line nonetheless, between reasonable stories starring aliens with powers, who have died and come back to life that fight beings that operate within those same, but unbelievable rules and having that self-same alien fight someone who "breaks" those rules.

And yes, what may be far-fetched to me may make perfect sense to someone else, I agree, but there is a line and there is a reason it's called "Suspension of disbelief" and not "total abandonment of disbelief."