The thing is, comics in the US can't really deviate from the superhero medium like other countries (France, Japan, Brazil, the UK, etc.) so practically every story that's actually interesting has to fit into the superhero mold. Alan Moore's Swamp Thing run is one of the greatest works of gothic fiction of all time, but to sell the comic it still has to be about a "superhero." So you end up having to sort out the cliche from the actually profound.