I think it is an odd thing that comics have put themselves into this position. They took the ideas of people stepping up to be a hero and made it essential about people being forced into those positions and are bad in those positions. Why they do this I won't get. Maybe because people grow tired of superheroes and just want something new. How long can Batman or Captain America realistically last? Because I think most of the ideas that make sense for them to do have been done already. Now there is nothing much left but to change them from their original intent. Make it into something it isn't. Anyways, nice video. I enjoy your insight.
Are they doing this because of a supposed super hero fatigue? Maybe just trying to do something different to gain attention? Not sure someone tired with the super hero films would be interested in comics getting weirdly political and cynical. I heard that negative stuff isn't selling either. 🤔
It's more a modern perception of the world. As I go into in the video, comics came out in a time when science was seen as a thing that would save the world. Today, the general outlook on the future is not positive but negative; we're very cynical as people. And that's been the case for at least forty years now. The reality is that everyone working in comics today has either been directly involved in or influenced by the comics that came out in the 80s and 90s, and those comics pioneered the darker, more bitter tone that we're stuck with today. Watchmen, as I've spoken about before, is an important comic and a good one, but it was never meant to be a GENRE, in the same way that it's characters were never meant to be archetypes. A lot of the comics that came out during that period that were meant to be explicit rejections of the medium were embraced as the way to do things. And that's a problem, because it means that you're left with this internal conflict between idea and universe.
I think it is an odd thing that comics have put themselves into this position. They took the ideas of people stepping up to be a hero and made it essential about people being forced into those positions and are bad in those positions.
Why they do this I won't get. Maybe because people grow tired of superheroes and just want something new. How long can Batman or Captain America realistically last? Because I think most of the ideas that make sense for them to do have been done already. Now there is nothing much left but to change them from their original intent. Make it into something it isn't.
Anyways, nice video. I enjoy your insight.
This is the second video in two weeks that has recommended Astro City. Guess I have to read it now.
Are they doing this because of a supposed super hero fatigue? Maybe just trying to do something different to gain attention?
Not sure someone tired with the super hero films would be interested in comics getting weirdly political and cynical. I heard that negative stuff isn't selling either. 🤔
It's more a modern perception of the world. As I go into in the video, comics came out in a time when science was seen as a thing that would save the world. Today, the general outlook on the future is not positive but negative; we're very cynical as people. And that's been the case for at least forty years now. The reality is that everyone working in comics today has either been directly involved in or influenced by the comics that came out in the 80s and 90s, and those comics pioneered the darker, more bitter tone that we're stuck with today. Watchmen, as I've spoken about before, is an important comic and a good one, but it was never meant to be a GENRE, in the same way that it's characters were never meant to be archetypes. A lot of the comics that came out during that period that were meant to be explicit rejections of the medium were embraced as the way to do things. And that's a problem, because it means that you're left with this internal conflict between idea and universe.