Can Sparky Greene Change Comics?

The headline says it all: New comic book team faces challenge:
But Sparky Greene, a writer and film producer from Malibu, wants a piece of that market. He and a small group of designers and artists have created a fantasy universe with a new graphic novel, “The Age of Insects: Not Human,” with characters they say are more appealing in some ways than the old heroic archetypes.
Greene is shown here with one of his hissing cockroaches.
