Anyone else get weirdly melancholy and emotional reading old Avengers, X-Men, JL, FF JSA books?
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Anyone else get weirdly melancholy and emotional reading old Avengers, X-Men, JL, FF JSA books?
I was reading some 70s Avengers and Super-Villain Team-Up last night. Wonder Man was complaining about inflation after taking a cab ride because it cost 2 bucks.
those were the times:
avengers, x-men, JL, etc...
Those comicbooks feels real or about characters.
Current comicbooks feels like a nightmare.
70s/80s Marvel? Hell Yeah!
70s/80s JLA? Hell No!
70s/80s JSA? Hell Fricking No!
really? I love 70s/80s Earth 2 stuff
What’s the point of limiting the roster like that? (at least in canon I get why for the writers) it seems like it’d be a solid idea to have like 15 people on a super team at one time
In-universe: Henry Fricking-piss-off Peter Gyrich
out-of-universe: Jim Shooter
Yeah, I can't really do it anymore, I get too upset
Only when it's back issues I had as a kid, those old Robin comics hit different now because he's a gay....
>Anyone else get weirdly melancholy and emotional reading old Avengers, X-Men, JL, FF JSA books?
I get sad as hell my dude. We will never go back to those times. And in the case of Marvel, they haven't been good since the early 90s since the fans of their comics started to work for them.
Honestly I ducking LOVE the feeling of late 60s to early 80s spidey books and felt incredibly disappointed with how boring the city was when I visited the few times I did
Ha! I watched on old 70's movie "God Told Me To" about a sniper serial killer, and the first thing I said was "Holy Shit THAT'S the New York that Marvel featured during its heyday. Dirty and grimy, not the tourist attraction it turned into.
I feel the opposite. I love that stuff and reading it makes happy af- and given the broad nature of my tastes- there’s a lot to love.
No?
They're good comics, but I don't know why the frick they'd make you so depressed.
I know what you mean. There's been so many retcons, reboots, relaunches, and deaths and resurrections since that these characters are effectively gone.
I just get bored.
YES, and honestly who wouldn't?
For starters, simply LOOK at that cover you posted. THAT is the work of a professional. No photoshop cheating, no tracing, no shitty proportions. I literally looked at it for a full minute soaking in the details before I posted. They simply don't make them like it any more. Even IF you have a talented cover artist, they just don't use the classic techniques any more. Everything looks digital, artificial, soulless.
Story? Nobody writes a compelling tale any more. Even before the tumblr hacks took over, that "decompressed write for the trade" mentality was ruining books. But modern books are beyond mundane, filled with "look what foods character likes nummy nummy!", Dr Strange wants to sleep in late hurrr hurrr, Thanos is trying to prevent me from finding a man! It's just...insipid! WHY would anyone part with real money for such bottom b***h triviality? YAWN!
I did read classic Claremont X-Men recently I haven't touched in over 30 years (Mutant Massacre), and it was like slipping back into your old long lost favorite comfy chair.
There's no EXCITEMENT in comics any more. There's no FUN. Just endless #1's with multiple covers. There is NO diversity of ideas allowed, period. And this whole "blame the fans" mentality has killed an industry incapable of introspection. They need a Jim Shooter type creative SO badly, someone to cut the crap nonselling titles like the nth Captain Marvel reboot instead of killing off Wolverine for years and ruining the Punisher. Yes, comics are dying, and I expect the market gone in our lifetime.
Worst part is not being able to pick up cheap comics off the spinner rack at the grocery store. New readers, young kids will never discover new books.
They made it easy it look so easy