Those are dramas, though. Can any current sitcoms compare to 60's sitcoms, or 70's sitcoms? 30 Rock maybe in spots? Nothing on TV is on the level of MASH, All In the Family, etc. Current pop culture is crap, pure crap, and that is the truth. It has nothing to do about the generation I grew up in-I grew up in the 70's, but the best comics ever published by far were the EC New Trend books of the early 50's. And 60's music is better than 70's music.
I don't watch many sitcoms but now there are many good ones like Curb Your Enthusiasm, Arrested Development, Scrubs, Malcolm in the Middle, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Louie, 30 Rock and Community.
Some are even made in a similar style to the old ones like How i met your mother, Gary Unmarried, Mike & Molly, Rules of Engagement, $h*! My Dad Says, Life with Bonnie, According to Jim, Friends,The New Adventures of Old Christine, Two and a Half Men, Yes, Dear, The Big Bang Theory, and Hot in Cleveland.
Now there is even a subgenre in sitcom that are the animated sitcoms like The Simpsons, Dinosaurs, South Park, Futurama, Beavis and Butt-head, Family Guy and King of the Hill.
Seems to me like sitcoms are good now too
Thinking something is bad just because it is old is closed minded. Modern pop culture sucks not because people are less talented but because there is more corporate control and less soul allowed into it. When Otto Binder wrote Captain Marvel in the 40's and 50's, it came from his heart. It was an extension of who he was and how he saw the world. When Geoff Johns writes The Curse of Shazam in 2012, he's trying to sell some comics and hopefully a movie to make the corporation more money.
I like Captain Marvel, but he was created as a kind of Superman rip-off, they even admited it:
Fawcett's circulation director Roscoe Kent Fawcett recalled telling the staff, "give me a Superman, only have his other identity be a 10- or 12-year-old boy rather than a man."
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It still had many original elements as their first idea was a team of six heroes, but they eventually decided to make it just one hero with all those powers.
One thing i don't like about modern comics is how they sell 20-40 pages worth of stories for 2.99-4.99 dollars, and in most cases don't even get a full story any more, you get part 1 of 3, or part 2 of 6, and so on, while in the golden age it was 10 cents (with inflation it would be 1.50 dollars now) of a comic with 40-60 pages where you got some 2-5 full stories.
I'm tired of that argument that it's worth for the art and story, but look at the japanes comics (Manga) They publish Shonen Jump, a magazine with 500 pages and some 7-10 different stories weekly, i don't remember the price but the magazine wasn't very expencive, the format of the magazine is weekly, with most of the artists also being the writers, i also saw that each story varies from 15-50 pages.
If you tought the guys at DC and Marvel had it difficult by having to draw all that in one month, then imagine if the artist had to draw that same amount every week.
Sure there are differences, like most stories in these Magazines being in black and white while american comics are colored, but most of the times now the colorist is not the drawer so there's no escuse for that.
In Japan there are many magazines like this, some are even monthly, but this shows that the problem isn't just money, as Manga are more respected in Japan, than comics are in the USA and Europe.
