>The pacing and artstyle of the modern age
>The absurd supervillains of the silver age
>The mood/issues of the bronze age
>The superheroes of the golden age
Seriously, you can have good comics if all of these are combined. Freedom Man up against The Horrifying Harpist while lampshading the ridiculousness of a person that mind controls people by playing a harp can be very entertaining while still being generally serious and dramatic when it calls for it
>The pacing and artstyle of the modern age
Decompression out the ass and "muh realism" ? No thanks.
What are those books OP?
I enjoy Silver and Bronze just the way they are, I certainly wouldn't replace Kirby, Ditko, John Buscema or Jim Steranko woth Reis or any other house style goon. Or Stan Lee for Bendis Or Johns.
>while lampshading the ridiculousness
No, fuck off.
This is the absolute fucking worst thing in fiction.
>LOL LOOK HOW ABSURD WE ARE XD
I can't wait for this shit to die. Fuck Whedon and every other hack that perpetuates this garbage.
>Dark age and Modern age are two seperated things
Why is the 90s the dark age now?
>Orion and Rorschach sandwiched between Robins
aw this is goading my autism. If you're going to make a chart comparing characters throughout the eras, don't change up the format and add different characters seemingly at random
>Shazam on none of them
This shouldn't make me as angry as it does.
Oh hey, someone's using my reaction image.
>potatoface as the depiction of modern age superman
This also makes me mad
>No Wally
master troll
also isn't this what King is trying in batman?
I agree
Especially golden age pacing
Wait shit im a retard i misread it
Holy shit how much of a faggot are you op decompression has gotten way out of hand in recent years
Bullshit. Guy was never THE Green Lantern.
got gold, silver, and bronze
that new 52 lookin' Hawkman looks ugly as fuck
The dude fuck a brazilian model and an Ice princess goddess, so yes he is "THE" Green Lantern
So what happened to flash in the bronze and dark ages.
Call me when he can sustains more book with more than 5 issues in 2016.
Crisis on Infinite Earths. Of course, Wally doesn't exist. Fucking DC. But they remember to put some retards like Animal Man and Hawkman.
Guess which artist did it.
>Golden Age: one dimension
>Silver Age: two dimensions
>Bronze Age: three dimensions
Really nowhere to go after that except:
>post-modern, self aware, self reflexive, cynical stuff (works once or twice but is not sustainable)
>pale derivative / homage / tribute to an earlier work (niche as fuck, gets old fast)
>completely original, out of left field, genuine, lighting strike (rare and impossible to predict)
Cape comics will never top the Bronze Age
that's sad.
Oh yes of course i feel retarded for forgetting about that.
Then again i wish i could just forget coie happened alltogether
So anything written by Ewing.
yeah, I'd go with bronze age pacing, and Darwyn Cooke type art
because they were not PC
in other words, the only morally right thing to do at this point is to kill the entire genera and try something different
Anyone up for some Aztec and Inca historical adventure?
DFW shit as applied to the only real future for comics post-Watchmen / Vertigo:
>"The next real literary “rebels” in this country might well emerge as some weird bunch of anti-rebels, born oglers who dare somehow to back away from ironic watching, who have the childish gall actually to endorse and instantiate single-entendre principles. Who treat of plain old untrendy human troubles and emotions in U.S. life with reverence and conviction. Who eschew self-consciousness and hip fatigue. These anti-rebels would be outdated, of course, before they even started. Dead on the page. Too sincere. Clearly repressed. Backward, quaint, naive, anachronistic. Maybe that’ll be the point. Maybe that’s why they’ll be the next real rebels. Real rebels, as far as I can see, risk disapproval. The old postmodern insurgents risked the gasp and squeal: shock, disgust, outrage, censorship, accusations of socialism, anarchism, nihilism. Today’s risks are different. The new rebels might be artists willing to risk the yawn, the rolled eyes, the cool smile, the nudged ribs, the parody of gifted ironists, the “Oh how banal”. To risk accusations of sentimentality, melodrama. Of overcredulity. Of softness. Of willingness to be suckered by a world of lurkers and starers who fear gaze and ridicule above imprisonment without law. Who knows."
I know we get tired of the Morrison wank but Morrison definitely has evolved as a creator to someone who understands this to some extent. He went from LOL IRONIC POSTMODERN SUUPERHERO takedown in Zenith to a worship of a pure, genuine, sentimental Superman in the span of a career. Although Morrison is less of a totally out there neo-rebel than someone who brings lost qualities that he sees in the character's history to the modern front again.
I like how to represent Dark Age Wonder Woman, they picked a face from a Jill Thompson cover of all things. I mean, granted this was the start of WML's run, but really? Thompson's art does not exactly scream "Dark Age of Comic Books". Especially not with Diana's "You're about to get a sexy hug~" face.
That's bolland, not jill.
Nevertheless.
Honestly, aside from Artemis and her miniseries, Diana avoided most of the cliches of the Dark Age. The stuff that looks like dark age tomfoolery comes off as satire, and Artemis herself works outside of the era.
he is in my book
What sort of a fucking definition is that?
What the hell is the difference between one and two dimensions, or two and three dimensions? And what about three dimensions is so impossible to build upon?
The 'Dark Age of Comic Books' is more of a Marvel thing anyway.