IC: Darker Superhero game
The themes would be: League of Extraordinary Gentleman, Watchmen, Max, Spawn, Savage Dragon, The Boys, pick any decent violent comic.
The rules would be: Savage World Supers rule set which I think will work well. I have had a lot of success with Savage Worlds. Very easy to learn and fun to play.
The idea would be similar to maybe something along the lines of Adventure which is an awesome game but not fond of the system. Time period would be either early 80's, 90's or early 2000's.
Heroes would start pretty street-level but grow with the first two major jumps.