A certain amount of theoretical frenzy about comics today is (i)____________. After all, similar frenzies have been in other art forms in periods of their rapid development, for instance, the debates about painting that roiled Renaissance Italy. But such intellectual (ii)____________ rarely precedes creative glory. On the contrary, it commonly indicates that an artistic (iii)____________, having been made and recognized, is over, and that a process of increasingly strained emulation and diminishing returns has set in. A. understandable B. torpor C. pitfall D. unprecedented E. conservatism F. tradition G. perplexing H. arousal I. breakthrough