What do we call the current era of comics? It seems crazy to lump it in with the era that followed the bronze age.
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What do we call the current era of comics? It seems crazy to lump it in with the era that followed the bronze age.
Pewter
Shit
Post-Modern
lmao be serious
I mean it's not wrong, all the writing now is influenced by postmodernist sludge
Lead
Iron? Stone?
>Golden Age (late 30s to late 50s/early 60s)
>Silver Age (to early 70s)
>Bronze Age (to early 80s)
>Iron Age (to late 80s)
>Extreme Age (to mid 90s)
>Retro Age (to end of the 90s)
>Edge Age (to early 2010s)
I vote we call the modern era from about 2011-2012 onwards the Clickbait Age or the Dung Age.
>including the early 60s in the golden age
that feels wrong
Golden Age ends the year Showcase #4 came out
It really depends if you're a DC guy or a Marvel guy. DC's Silver Age starts with their relaunches of Flash and Green Lantern, Marvel's with Fantastic Four. FF introducing heroes with feet of clay was a bit more of a game-changer than DC getting a few new superhero books to succeed.
The Dark Age term got used for a mix of 80s British Invasion edginess and early 90s Extreme. The former marked a distinct change from the 70s and early 80s Bronze Age books, but there's such a tonal difference between the 80s edge and 90s extreme that they should be two separate ages.
>It really depends if you're a DC guy or a Marvel guy. DC's Silver Age starts with their relaunches of Flash and Green Lantern, Marvel's with Fantastic Four. FF introducing heroes with feet of clay was a bit more of a game-changer than DC getting a few new superhero books to succeed.
It's a game-changer but it wouldn't have happened if the DC revival didn't stick.
People don't know this but there actually was an attempt by a lot of companies at reviving superheroes in the 50s, before Showcase #4. It just failed across the board.
There's a lot of debate about whether the story about Martin Goodman getting the idea to do a superhero team book because Jack Liebowitz told him sales on Justice League were up, and then that leading to Lee and Kirby creating Fantastic Four, but it's not hard to think that because Atlas/Marvel was still doing monster/sci-fi books at the time DC was having its superhero revival.
>It really depends if you're a DC guy or a Marvel guy
It really doesn't. It's just when the CCA gets passed and almost every other publisher fricking dies.
Incorrect, Bronze age ends with the 90's as the speculator bubble grows and publishers learn the wrong lessons from Watchmen/TDKR and comics become increasingly XTREME.
>Victorian Age (1842–1897)
>Platinum Age (1897–1938)
>Golden Age (1938–1956)
>Silver Age (1956–1970)
>Bronze Age (1970–1986)
>Dark Age (1986–1991)
>Extreme age (1991-1997)
>Event (decompressive) age (1997-2011)
>Synergy age (2011-2019)
>Multiverse fatigue age(2020-2027)
>Dark Age (1986–1991)
You're smoking crack dude, that's still the Bronze Age
No, the Bronze Age is considered to be pre-Crisis/pre-Watchmen
Golden Age ends in '54 with the passing of the Comics Code
>edge age
Worthless
>What's a good name for the 'swap out white male heroes with women or blacks?
The White-Out era. They're literally throwing out white characters and using white-out to retcon the past. So I'd go with that.
Top cat you salacious throat bawd let me use your kitty mouth to dispense my baby batter into your male womb
He's Top Cat, not Bottom Cat.
Dark ages
Modern Era.
Since 1986. Yeah, I know its stupid.
“The movie adaptation” age
Make it a bit simpler, the Synergy Age.
From Bronze to Extreme to Copper to Synergy?
Switch Bronze and Copper?
homosexualry age.
the Dark Age would be appropriate
Golden Age 1939-1956
Silver Age 1956-1973
Bronze Age 1973-1986
Brass Age 1986-1998
Plastic Age 1998-2011
Pathetic Age 2018-Now
Arsenic
Gay
Watchmen et al. heralded in the Iron Age of comics, not the modern age.
>Gilded Age (1890-1937):Little Nemo, Prince Valiant, Popeye
Mostly newspaper publications
>Golden Age (1937-1954):Action Comics, Detective Comics, All-American Comics, Whiz Comics, Police Comics
Dawn of the superhero
>Silver Age (1954-1973): The Marvel Age
Then the Comics Code Authority got passed and most genre comics outside of capes die or switch to magazines like MAD
>Bronze Age (1973-1992): The Death of Gwen Stacy, Saga of the Swamp Thing, TDKR, Year One, Watchmen
Comics Code gets increasingly bent until it breaks. British invasion happens. Comics become graphic novels.
>Iron/Dark Age (1992-2000): Death of Superman, Spider-man Clone Saga, Image Comics
Ow the Edge, your favorite characters are all dead or evil. Speculator bubble pops, over 2/3rds of American comic shops close
>Modern Age (2000-2011): Ultimate Marvel, Crisis after Crisis until Flashpoint
Oops, we fricked it all up, let's reboot it again, surely this time it will work
>Digital/Streaming Age (2009-Now)
Disney buys Marvel to farm for IPs, who gives a shit what the comics are doing?
Age (1954-1970): The Marvel Age
Fixed
I don't understand people's obsession with making the Silver Age end in 1973
Even the essay arguing for making the Silver Age end with Gwen's death, made some major blunders in argument
Idk I got burnt our heavily on capeshit 15 years ago and I haven't read one since then. Idk how you guys still read this shit.
I don't know how you even get burnt out.
Most of the superhero genre is shit and you should be able to tell when to drop a book after a few pages most of the time.
Most comics, movies, music is shit. You wait for the diamonds.
Not very many of those anymore. Haven’t found one in years myself
Because you are not open to it. Sounds a little bit like /misc/fested.
And sometimes you handwave things because they are just entertainment.
>Because you are not open to it.
No, he's right.
Most of anything is shit, but music and literature have a longer history, so you can go at it longer and still find gems.
I insist we should follow the order of greek eras.
After bronze came iron, then the archaic age, the classical age and the hellenastic age.
Media/Internet Age
Probably begins around the early 2000 with the X-Men, Spider-Man films leading into the MCU and DCEU.
bump
Glitter?
"Modern" is a euphemism for the Dark Ages. In comics it's still on-going.
The Dark Ages is usually associated with 90s edginess. By the late 90s that stuff had faded. 2000-2011 could arguably be its own era and then 2011-present is the Synergy/MCU Era.
Some people refer to 1946-1956 as an interregnum called the Atomic Age. During this time superheroes declined in popularity and comics moved towards other genres.
Shit
>Golden
>silver
>bronze
>dark
>modern
It’s always “modern” until we move past it and come up with a name.