The absolute state of the American comics industry
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Quoting myself from a year ago:
https://kotakuinaction2.win/p/12ih9o7sWK/x/c/4J9McBD7zEY
You left out the part now where they are all gay, have a different skin color, possibly the opposite sex and fight against vending machines for tampons not being in the male restroom
Hey, look at the bright side: now they might actually legitimately kill off a character. Granted it’ll be only white male characters so that instead of resurrecting them or finding out the dead version was secretly a clone, they can put a black trans lesbian in the suit and have everyone act like the white guy never existed. But actually killing off a character for real would bring comics into a brave new world!
Speaking of, Alfred from Batman is currently dead.
Tom King is such a hack.
There’s a moment in the Simpsons from 2003 where even as a kid I knew the show was done being original. Principal Skinner is about to marry Ms. Krabapple, and thus stop being a stuffed-shirt loser, and Barney had sobered up a few seasons earlier. The scene is Skinner in the bar telling Moe he can’t go through with the wedding for basically no reason (I think I literally just says “I have cold feet”) and then immediately they cut to Barney showing him back on the sauce. Two opportunities for major character development derailed in the space of 10 seconds, in favor of keeping the characters the same one-joke 2D caricatures they’d always been.
That’s comic books right there.
Never thought of that but spot on
The Principal and the Pauper was the defacto end of the Simpsons for me. Funnily enough, its a 20 minute joke about the same refusal to do development that you're criticizing - except it has the gall to blame the audience for reacting poorly to seeing a character's backstory senselessly destroyed.
Bingo. But a lot of the modern writers for marvel and dc can’t write. But then again they only seem to hire activists. Indies have been the only new ones I’ve bought lately
A lot of the modern artists for Marvel and DC can't draw, either. So the comics are shit for more reasons than just the
"message"stories.Sums of the recent Eternals run. Art was dog shit with horrific expressions and faces in general which included a spectacular version of Carol Danvers who looked like an 80 year old dude.
Yes! Reading some random comic book from the 90s is like reading Shakespeare by comparison. But I love reading the stuff Kirby/Lee/Ditko worked on when I can afford it. Classic DC, and some good indie comics in the 80s like Alien Worlds. I could go on and on
And until then >.> 🏴☠️
It's not even this. It's that, even if it takes 10-20 years, manga will end and will reach some conclusion.
The only conclusion comic readers get is a brand new day, lol.
Even if they never end they could write stories in a way where you don’t need to go back 2 decades to understand a reference in a single pannel. And actually number the tpbs either as volumes in a contained story and not just write Batman in huge font on the side.
Golgo 13 came out in 1968.
It's still going.
The anime wasn't shit, but then that came out in 1983.
I remember that, with the weird chick Golgo bangs then she tries to run him down on a horse on the beach or the business man who was the main antagonist after Golgo killed his son. IIRC there's a phone call the business man takes where the other end of the line flat out states they were the ones who killed JFK because of what the business man told them to do. Had a good twist about the son, though.
That would be the movie.
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1760/Golgo_13?q=Golgo%2013&cat=anime
There was also an OVA in 1998.
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1761/Golgo_13__Queen_Bee?q=Golgo%2013&cat=anime
And an actual TV series in 2008.
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4039/Golgo_13_TV?q=Golgo%2013&cat=anime