Prize (meaning a bit of amusing thematically linked tat) to be won for the first person to tell me what is being described below:
I was due for to be released on 4 July 2004. I was originally published in the '80s. I am better than Watchmen. I have introductions by a Pulitzer Prize winning author and a legendarily slow comic artist. I make today’s “paper movies” read like “paper radio programmes”. I conduct electricity poorly. I feature a character whose name is one “s” away from being the German for sh*thead. I contain artwork that resembles a jam by Alex Toth, John Severin and Gil Kane. (If they could have stayed in the same room long enough without blood being shed). I am better than The Dark Knight Returns. I was not sighted on the grassy knoll that dark day in Dallas.
What am I?
*****Bonus Question**** When will I finally get released? (A different Prize for this: a big sloppy smackeroo from Yours Truly)