What Are The True Comic Book Age Categories?12758
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| For 2020 and on, how about the "End of Days" Age? | ||
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Well, I’d decided not to engage in this discussion, then changed my mind and will probably regret that decision later on.  Since this is an entirely subjective exercise, let me just get this off my chest, everyone’s wrong, ...including me! Why do I say that? Because there isn’t one defining moment to establish permanent markers in any logical critique of comic history. A critic of the conventional Overstreet hierarchy could point to the establishment of the traditional stapled comic pamphlet as the actual start of the GA and they’d have a point because without that format there probably wouldn’t be comics as we know them and Superman might never have existed or ended up as an anecdotal Sunday comic strip syndicated through several newspaper chains. The Atom Age is only logical as a sub-group. Changes in comics after the war are entirely logical with or without the emergence of nuclear power as both a weapon and energy source. Super heroes could hardly be expected to tone down their attributes in civilian cops and robbers scenarios after battling the immensity of Axis military might for four years. Maturing comic readers craved more adult themes and visual content in their stories reflective of the new realities at home including more prurient interests. The changes were all trial and error experimenting with crime themes, sexual content, romance, teen humor and horror. The rise of each of these genres took place over time, nailing it down to a specific year or Age is more complicated. Where there are marked changes, they’re established by events, but even that is somewhat misleading. Trends, such as satire are tough to lock down to a specific era beyond the creation of Mad Comics. Some satire comics survived for a time after the CCA by toning down suggestive content, while others ...like Mad... evolved into a magazine format. Also, the idea that the SA “starts” in 1956 isn’t technically accurate since content changes impacted publishers beginning in early ‘55. With self-imposed censorship helped along via the CCA and the government oversight which forced the issue certain types of comics went away or changed dramatically. Numerous publishers threw in the towel, closing up shop due to dwindling profits and public pressure. For those survivors, storylines were drastically cleansed and monitored to narrowly focus on a youth centered market. As for the reintroduction of superheroes, while it’s easiest to attribute the Flash as the first SA superhero, that’s not quite true. Reviving a redesigned classic DC character was the most obviously successful experiment, but S&K’s Fighting American (Prize), the long running GA Plastic Man (Quality) and other heroic featured characters made the transition from pre-code to CCA approved SA without a hiccup. Some superheroes (Plastic Man) that made the transition would disappear and be revived later or continue unabated (Blackhawk) having been acquired by one of the major surviving publishers. Notice that DC’s Superman and Batman sailed right through this tumultuous period with hardly any changes beyond the CCA stamp. I’m sure that there are similar considerations or reconsiderations between SA and Bronze/Copper ages and so-called Modern, The rise of Independent publishers suggests one kind of change, but even that wan an ongoing process taking years and included B&W comic reprints. Which also brings up the concept of Graphic Novels in the star filled astrological charting of comic ages. See, I told you I’d regret getting into this discussion. Sorry ‘bout that. I’m just going to blame it all on the caffeine and be done with it!   |
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| When is the post-modern age? | ||
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| I think the Modern age should end in 2008 with the release of Iron Man. After that, we have the Mainstream Age. The MCU has had an ENORMOUS impact on comics and I think it should be noted in the comic ages. | ||
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Quote:Originally Posted by Studley_Dudley Hopefully it’ll start in a couple of months.  |
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Quote:Originally Posted by Jesse_O The Silver-screen age? |
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Quote:Originally Posted by Studley_Dudley Postmodernism already ended, which is why calling anything 'modern' is a recipe for naming disaster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodernism |
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| So postmodern is out. How about the profiteer age? Variant age? The end is nigh for floppies age? | ||
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| How about after 1992, marking the founding of Image Comics, the era could be called the Plastic Age? Pretty appropriate I think. | ||
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Quote:Originally Posted by EbaySeller Actually, @Jesse_O, I say we call it the "Hope and Dig Age" Because, since 2008 we regularly hear a rumor that makes us go dig for a book that we hope we bought and still have. |
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