Dude, try watching 1970's Pete's Dragon and comparing it to the remake.
You know what Keith Giffen's Justice League and 1970's Pete's Dragon has in commom. Vaudeville references. Skits, jokes, dance numbers, all kinds of classic comedy.
Comics and tv and movies, its all done now by people who probably don't even know what vaudeville even is. Their humor comes from stupid SNL skits that all revolve around partisan politics. I miss the comedy, I miss the humor, I miss slapstick.
It's all stupid idealogy and axes to grind now.
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Never let anyone else define you. Don't be a jerk just to be a jerk, but if you are expressing your true inner feelings and beliefs, or at least trying to express that inner child, and everyone gets pissed off about it, never NEVER apologize for it. Let them think what they want, let them define you in their narrow little minds while they suppress every last piece of them just to keep a friend that never liked them for themselves in the first place.
This is what happens when things go mainstream, but would I want comics written for the "nerds"who frequent online sites like this, no. It's also your age, as with pop music, with comics too you get out of touch. Pop culture is for people younger than you now Mindy, perhaps.
No wonder the New52 failed. Grant Morrison writing to people in their teens and early 20's.
__________________ What CDTM believes;
Never let anyone else define you. Don't be a jerk just to be a jerk, but if you are expressing your true inner feelings and beliefs, or at least trying to express that inner child, and everyone gets pissed off about it, never NEVER apologize for it. Let them think what they want, let them define you in their narrow little minds while they suppress every last piece of them just to keep a friend that never liked them for themselves in the first place.
I'll tell you what happened:
a) Crap storylines
b) Wildly inconsistent power levels
c) Character origin and company reboots occurring way too frequently
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I mean....zop, you say all that, but the Silver Age was worse. One day Superman/Thor would move planets, then the next they'd be fighting gorillas who also happened to be from the future and were theor descendants or whatever. Some of the (a lot of the) storylines were shit as well. We just happen to be on the ground, as it were, week in and week out so can see all of it.
It's like music. Yeah sure every decade had it's classics...but it had it's fair share of dress as well, we just don't remember it.
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Re: what happened to the comic industry?
I think it has. Manga has become alot more mainstream over the years. First sign was when they took over bookstores. But, at the time Direct market still sold more. Now that's not the case, so yeah. I still like comics though but unlike my generation most kids under 18 like my Godson are growing up with Manga.
Does it hold a candle to Cerebrus the Aardvark, Groo the Wanderer, Usagi Yojimbo, TMNT, and even Spawn. Or is it more like "What you can read in the big two rebranded" or "Idealogy!"
__________________ What CDTM believes;
Never let anyone else define you. Don't be a jerk just to be a jerk, but if you are expressing your true inner feelings and beliefs, or at least trying to express that inner child, and everyone gets pissed off about it, never NEVER apologize for it. Let them think what they want, let them define you in their narrow little minds while they suppress every last piece of them just to keep a friend that never liked them for themselves in the first place.
I mean, people are complaining about inconsistencies.....when DC needed to destroy everything and restart it in 1985 because they had too many inconsistencies.
Odin was enslaved by random space ants who fed him drugged gruel, lmao.
Hulk could....fly, at one point, I think, but then the comics suddenly forgot it.
Inconsistencies have always been there. We just remember it better now because information is so readily searchable now.
In short, every thing is aimed at purple haired, sexually confused zoomers, who spend too much time on Twitter. Also, women low key dominate comics now. Especially in editorial.
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Dec 1st, 2022 01:45 PM
spot on, and I stand by the older you get the less pop culture matches your needs.
