The influence of 90s comics aesthetics still is felt in game media like Gears of Wars. Why don’t make game that homage the 90s?
I miss the 90s
The influence of 90s comics aesthetics still is felt in game media like Gears of Wars. Why don’t make game that homage the 90s?
Bring the sexy back
It’s funny, some of the excesses of the 90s rubbed me the wrong way at the time, BUT with the benefit of hindsight it actually was a great era in many ways. In a way it had the same trying new and crazy ideas aspect that the Silver Age had, despite the difference in culture it was the same in the “screw the rules, let’s create” attitude. I’d still put the 80s era in comics ahead of it, but it’s aged far better than the 2000s, 2010s, and whatever the hell comics are now. I think of you brought back the 90s comic style it would resonate with zoomer audiences who were never exposed to it.
>I think of you brought back the 90s comic style it would resonate with zoomer audiences who were never exposed to it.
I don't think anyone even knows how to draw like that anymore. God knows the artists didn't go into teaching.
I’m sure a lot of zoomies are watching Cartoonist Kayfabe and getting inspired by the styles. Everything comes back around again.
Yes, I'm sure a lot of kiddies are watching your garbage videos, Pisskor, and you're inspiring them all. You're this generation's Frank Miller.
While the 90s certainly do deserve a not insignificant amount of the criticism they get, they were, if nothing else, always at least TRYING to be cool. It was dumb over the top nonsense but it was exciting. You know what the real biggest issue with comics today is? Anything else might be forgivable but they've just become boring. They're just absolutely boring. You can say a lot about the 90s. But you can't say it was boring.
>You can say a lot about the 90s. But you can't say it was boring.
You’re right. Maybe they went too over the top with big guns, big breasts, and swords, but now…I miss the big guns, big breasts, and swords. Not every comic should have been that, obviously, but now it feels like no comic has that vibe and that sucks.
>But you can't say it was boring.
I most definitely can.
That;s because you are boring
this is what culture war nonsense does to your brain. It’s not like there are an immediate readily available guys at the big two (Mora, Larraz, Jiminez, etc) who can readily channel 90s style coolness with the benefit of being actual artists.
>this is what culture war nonsense does to your brain.
You are the only one to bring that shit up. It’s you Barry.
Bump. Let’s talk more about the 90s.
the one thing i do like about the 90s excess of pouches is that it explains where superheroes hold their stuff
especially the ones who dont even have the luxury of a utility belt
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>Why don’t make game that homage the 90s?
Because at best they'd only attempt self-parody
90s designs HAVE looked good but unfortunately the telephoned stigma passed down to people who weren't even around that era is that it was all irredeemable trash
Whats the best type of 90's?
Early 90's, Mid 90's or Late 90's early 00's?
I like early nineties. Mid-nineties after that. Late nineties had lost much of the energy.
I feel the same.
I like Savage Dragon up until ~100, Allred’s Madman from that time really did/does it for me too. Danger Girl rocked. And although some of the shine has worn off for me I really dug Hellboy too.
As far as the big two go, I thought Morrison’s JLA and DC One Million were breasts, I didn’t read Morrison’s Doom Patrol until much later, but it’s a favorite of mine.
I’ve read most of this stuff too. Some of it really fid it for me, some of it didn’t, just like anything else I guess.
I do miss all the breasts and guns without reservation or regret.
(Me)
> I’ve read most of this stuff too:
Morrison’s JLA is one of my favorite runs.
Early 90s, though mid 90s Marvel has a lot of energy and wild ideas all born out of desperation, first from their efforts to prevent Heroes Reborn, then due to the bankruptcy.
Later 90s saw Marvel and DC give up on kids and teens and focus on holding on to older readers, which meant letting a lot of salty writers kill or retcon away as much of the early 90s characters and stories as they could, while Image started to move away from just superhero books and their shared universe broke up. Most later 90s Marvel books looked awful because of the coloring during the bankruptcy.
I miss the 90s too.
These aren't the type of 90s comics OP means.
I have every issue of The Maxx. Good stuff.
Tale of a bad rat was stunning
The Kyle Barker comics from the 90s very funny
That's it?
The other Sandman at Vertigo deserves a mention. It started in 1989 but the vast majority of its seven year run was through the 90's. It wouldn't really find its footing until then either.
At least half of those suck.
Every single one is better than any of the Image founders' comics.
My favorite treatment of 90's designs are streamlined ones that keep everything that works while discarding the clutter
they gave him a pair of little panties
looks like shit
Hate the Borat mankini thing.
Gears of War has NOTHING to do with 90s comics.
Not OP and I don't agree with him 100% but look at their fricking proportions
Totally unrelated. Not even similar.
because nostalgiabait is a road to nowhere
The first half of the 90s were, for me in my country, a mix between translated comics from the late 80s (Elektra assassin), imported comics from the 90s (GEN13), and manga (Ghost in the Shell).
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CREATE YOUR IDEAL 1990S TEAM LINE UP!
Heroic Team!
> Martian Manhunter (ostrander style)
> Scarlet Witch (with pic related outfit)
> Gambit
> Dan Ketch / Ghost Rider
> ???
> ???
Villainous Team!
> Cyborg Superman (rust colored armor)
> Amora the Enchantress
> Omega Red
> Mr Freeze (the post tas comic version with the bulky armor)
> Alistair Smythe (ultimate slayer form)
>> Amora the Enchantress
With this outfit & sexy bulgy shoulders.
>> Cyborg Superman (rust colored armor)
Oddly, I only started to like Henshaw when he became more of a Green Lantern villain. I could never get over him being a Reed Richard’s expy, but as a villain for Hal he works as kind of a dark mirror (both being pilots).
He was just called "The Cyborg" back then. It's amazing how easily Geoff Johns managed to memoryhole that and everyone thinks he was always called "Cyborg Superman".
He was mostly called “the Cyborg” or “Henshaw” and occasionally (when he was still posing as Superman) “the Man of Tomorrow,” but there were times he was called the Cyborg Superman as well. But it’s true that Superman usually just called him “Henshaw” or “the Cyborg” back then.
Fans called him Cyborg Superman in the 90s.
Source: I'm THAT old.
People definitely called him Cyborg Superman. That might have not been his official name or whatever but it was how he was pointed out from the quartet. DC already had Cyborg.
I'd add...
> Malev Emperor (Valiant)
To the villains list. Love her design.
>DC 90s heroes
>Azrael
>Superboy
>Steel
>Artemis
>Green Lantern (Kyle)
>Catwoman (purple costume)
>DC 90s villains
>Monarch
>Doomsday
>Bane
>The Cyborg
>Hal as Parallax
>Harley Quinn
>90s Marvel heroes
>Cable
>Ghost Rider (Dan Ketch)
>Ben Reilly
>Gambit
>Venom
The girl on the Marvel team probably should be Rogue or Elektra but out of personal preference I have to pick Wanda just like you did, but not sure whether to go with that version, early Force Works, this one from Heroes Reborn or the late 90s Perez costume.
>90s Marvel villains
>Carnage
>Onslaught
>90s Jackal
>Stryfe
>Exodus
>Lady Octopus (90s purple hair version)
>90s Image heroes
>Spawn
>Badrock
>Witchblade
>Fairchild
>Savage Dragon
>Diva
>90s Image villains
>Clown/Violator
>Helspont
>Crypt
>Misery
>Giger
>Overtkill
>Other 90s heroes
>X-O Manowar and Turok at Valiant
>Ghost at Dark Horse
The 90s were really into energy-based superpowers.
Same
Does Warpath have stretchy abilities? How does his body connect?
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>Favorite artists or art styles?
I like the big hair of the Kuberts.