Damnit, I wish Amazon hadn't cancelled The Tick. I was enjoying that, as a humourous deconstruction of capeshit. I only saw a bit of the cartoon in the 90s (I was in my 20s and busy for that golden era of television cartoons.) But, no one's got any sense of humour any more, so now we have The Boys instead. Oh, wait, it is supposed to be a comedy. I forgot. It's not that I don't like it, I just don't find it ... funny. It's like poking at a sore, and wondering how much worse it could get. My memories of it mostly involve the freakish stuff, and Homelander having that fantasy of laser-eyeballing pretty much everyone. Ha, ha. I got more of a laugh when Resident Alien had his dream, and the dog just stood there.
Yeah, Superman is definitely from an older, less apparently-cynical generation that actually believed in Hope, rather than in wallowing in self-pity. They looked for light in darkness, rather than ... embracing the darkness.
I would hate to imagine if Superman hadn't already been invented, and someone was just coming up with the concept of the superhero now. Ugh. And when I was a kid, it was the "dork age", and he was basically just a collection of whatever bullshit superpower the writers pulled out of their asses that month (seriously, superhero comics were bad in the 70s, which is why I preferred the war and horror comics. And Uncle Scrooge.)
Damnit, I wish Amazon hadn't cancelled The Tick. I was enjoying that, as a humourous deconstruction of capeshit. I only saw a bit of the cartoon in the 90s (I was in my 20s and busy for that golden era of television cartoons.) But, no one's got any sense of humour any more, so now we have The Boys instead. Oh, wait, it is supposed to be a comedy. I forgot. It's not that I don't like it, I just don't find it ... funny. It's like poking at a sore, and wondering how much worse it could get. My memories of it mostly involve the freakish stuff, and Homelander having that fantasy of laser-eyeballing pretty much everyone. Ha, ha. I got more of a laugh when Resident Alien had his dream, and the dog just stood there.
Yeah, Superman is definitely from an older, less apparently-cynical generation that actually believed in Hope, rather than in wallowing in self-pity. They looked for light in darkness, rather than ... embracing the darkness.
I would hate to imagine if Superman hadn't already been invented, and someone was just coming up with the concept of the superhero now. Ugh. And when I was a kid, it was the "dork age", and he was basically just a collection of whatever bullshit superpower the writers pulled out of their asses that month (seriously, superhero comics were bad in the 70s, which is why I preferred the war and horror comics. And Uncle Scrooge.)