Wired News: Up, Up and Away, Indeed
Conference co-founder Coogan acknowledged that academia can be a fun- buster. “You have this dog and you love it, and you want to find out why you love it. You dissect it, and you’re left with this dead bloody dog on the table,” he said. “That’s one of the things that academics do.”

From an article in Wired about the comic book conference that has been invaded by academics analyzing Superman.  Not everyone is enthusiastic about it…