Originally posted by ragesRemorse
what the hell are you talking about, there actions dont matter? content most defaintly decides the outcome of a character's place in a genre. You are not going to find LOBO and MASK comics with the archie comics and other non threatning comedic comics. No you are going to find them in the mature section with all the darker tales. LOBO and MASK are executed in an offensive manner with loads of controversy. Just like the crumb comics. Crumb is the king of dark comics, this guy wrote some of the most sick and twisted shit to date, just because it is portrayed as humorous doesnt mean it isnt dark, it is called dark comedy. I think you need to broaden your horizons of "technicalities"
Is Bugs Bunny also a "dark character?" I suppose he must be, if we are to ignore tone and focus soley on what character do. You say I need to broaden my horizens, but any horizen that makes Bugs Bunny into a dark character is too broad for my taste.
You'll find "Fables" in the Mature section too (it's a Vertigo title)--it isn't dark, either, at least not what I've read of it. Neither are Battle Axe (Vertigo miniseries) or a lot of the other titles. Offensive and contraversal and violent are not the same as dark.