The churches were crowded with penitant sinners: the sons of riot and profligacy were overawed into sobriety and decorum.

to stem a tide

According to him, the sense impressions are to be consciously discriminated psychologically, as agreeable or disagreeable or neither, and then the resultant attitudes of loathsomeness or unloathsomeness towards them are to be discarded […]

There's nothing to stop any of the comic companies producing realistic comic. Even the big two have gioven it a go. Ultimateverse nods in the general direction but doesn't really do anything more. Supreme Power was better but has since become more superheroey and is about to join the Ultimateverse officially.