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Monday 1 June 2015

The Ongoing and Pathetic Failure of DC Comics

Today I'm just leading you to a link on an analysis of the state of "joylessness" in DC's current comics.  I mostly agree with what the article says; I would emphasize that the major problem is that the morons running that company utterly fail to get that the whole deal with DC needs to be, overall, epic archetypal heroics , optimism, and a kind of heroic nobility that has been ridiculously absent from DC's main characters for years now.

Instead, we get pathetic "grimdark" and constantly joyless characters in a joyless story.  Kudos to the author for figuring out that the fact that the New-52 literally had no way of effectively doing the Legion of Superheroes is a major symptom of their larger problem.

Anyways, as of now I read nothing of DC's.  I've given up again.  And I read precious little of Marvel either, since that never really was my bag (but at least Marvel's characters are made for a somewhat more cynical world and can fit better with it; and ironically they have a few truly great titles that in the last few years have done a WAY better job than anything DC puts out at doing either the optimism or heroism or even the Archetype thing).

I think I'm going to have to take another decade off comics books again...

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8 comments:

  1. 1 exception is Batman '66. Fun stuff there.

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  2. Also: DC has been this way for almost 25 years. This is news now?

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    1. They got much much worse in the last 5 or so.

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  3. You know it is sad when the cartoons made for children actually get the super heroes right when the comics which created those heroes get it wrong. The fuck DC? Make Superman into that boy scout that he is. Make him into a role model of heroic portions. Fuck the "edgy" shit.

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  4. It's edgy only to stunted adolescents. What would really be edgy would be a George Reeves type Superman these days.

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    1. YOU are pathetic dc comics taking down all the Paris D
      ylan wonder woman films and pics! Shes BETTER than any dumb wonder woman youve had

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    2. I think that's probably a spambot.. but not sure? It's either a spambot or a complete moron who doesn't know how to string two words together?

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