When a film opens with statistics about the number of comic books owned by the average reader, the amount of time that will be spent reading them and the volume of comics sold every year in the United States, you know this will not be your average film. The movie is shot in dim lighting and dark blue hues. Thinking that he is perhaps the luckiest man alive, Dunn returns home to his son and estranged wife.
Price is the owner of the gallery and is a comic book enthusiast.
His gallery is filled with pen and ink prints from comics. It is this passion for comics that prompted him to seek out Dunn, a man he sees as possibly the real-life manifestation of what we know as the superhero. Here is where the pitch begins. Price hypothesizes that comics are the American way of passing on history, much like other cultures, exaggerating truths to pass along the stories. Obviously, Dunn believes Price to be more than a little off, and he says his good-bye and leaves the art gallery.