Nave 'Torment'
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The Modern Age is Dead, and no, it will not come back in the end of the low-sales backlash so that yet another soap-operatic cringe-device is used to milk that ever sagging, anthrax-infested MAD cow.
The Modern Age is Dead, and the mainstream publishers have spoken. Marvel is gearing up to explore its all new 'HEROIC AGE' while DC Comics succumbs ever so slowly into the hands of Grant 'GOD OF CONTINUITY' Morrison (with help from Bob, Jim and Geoff!) I am not belittling the comic book industry, but simply saying that the time for 'Dark and Gritty' comics is gone and people have shed little tears. Why tears? Because along with that darkness we have to say good bye to realism as well. And while realism should not be the only mode of art-representation, when it comes to comic books, it's always lead to a path toward more matured narratives. It's a good thing that the Neo-Silver Age (as Alan Moore coined all those years ago) is trying to find new ways to tell good stories other than the gritty and realistic ground; but it's sad that in order to get there the mainstream editors think that the only way FORWARD is to go BACK.
The Neo-Silver Age is NOT a renaissance, but people seem to like it any way. They love the fact that Bruce Wayne now has 4 different side-kicks, that he's jumping through the time-stream claiming to evoke the history of comic books (while messing up character and style); that Batman is funny and Robin is grim; that Superman has an entire race of families with Kryptonians alive; that Brainiac is once again a Kandor-based vile, that Diana finally got a black jacket (echoing the I-Ching era); that Steve Rogers doesn't need to wear a mask any more. You get my point. But I don't get theirs. Why is the Neo-Silver Age so alluring all of a sudden when in fact it is riddled with BAD TERRIBLE STORY ELEMENTS?! Some of that has even rubbed off on the adaptations - there are less 'all-age' or 'mature' animated depictions than the 90s, Superman Returns was neo-Silver Age, The Incredible Hulk reboot was Neo-Silver Age, even the upcoming X-Men First Class will be borrowing sentiments from the 60s comics.
Now I know this provides a great and welcome contrast with the overtly 'gritty' and reboots, but to what end?
In all the hubub, even Marvel's ULTIMATE UNIVERSE seems to be a much greener shade of sanity than the technicolor Hero Ups we're getting today. What have you got to say about it, o fearless observer of the ages?
The Modern Age is Dead, and the mainstream publishers have spoken. Marvel is gearing up to explore its all new 'HEROIC AGE' while DC Comics succumbs ever so slowly into the hands of Grant 'GOD OF CONTINUITY' Morrison (with help from Bob, Jim and Geoff!) I am not belittling the comic book industry, but simply saying that the time for 'Dark and Gritty' comics is gone and people have shed little tears. Why tears? Because along with that darkness we have to say good bye to realism as well. And while realism should not be the only mode of art-representation, when it comes to comic books, it's always lead to a path toward more matured narratives. It's a good thing that the Neo-Silver Age (as Alan Moore coined all those years ago) is trying to find new ways to tell good stories other than the gritty and realistic ground; but it's sad that in order to get there the mainstream editors think that the only way FORWARD is to go BACK.
The Neo-Silver Age is NOT a renaissance, but people seem to like it any way. They love the fact that Bruce Wayne now has 4 different side-kicks, that he's jumping through the time-stream claiming to evoke the history of comic books (while messing up character and style); that Batman is funny and Robin is grim; that Superman has an entire race of families with Kryptonians alive; that Brainiac is once again a Kandor-based vile, that Diana finally got a black jacket (echoing the I-Ching era); that Steve Rogers doesn't need to wear a mask any more. You get my point. But I don't get theirs. Why is the Neo-Silver Age so alluring all of a sudden when in fact it is riddled with BAD TERRIBLE STORY ELEMENTS?! Some of that has even rubbed off on the adaptations - there are less 'all-age' or 'mature' animated depictions than the 90s, Superman Returns was neo-Silver Age, The Incredible Hulk reboot was Neo-Silver Age, even the upcoming X-Men First Class will be borrowing sentiments from the 60s comics.
Now I know this provides a great and welcome contrast with the overtly 'gritty' and reboots, but to what end?
In all the hubub, even Marvel's ULTIMATE UNIVERSE seems to be a much greener shade of sanity than the technicolor Hero Ups we're getting today. What have you got to say about it, o fearless observer of the ages?