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Post by badwolf on Aug 19, 2017 15:17:44 GMT -5
I don't know that they have become more violent in terms of counting acts of violence, but I certainly think they are willing to display it more graphically, i.e.: Superboy punching Pantha's head off in Infinite Crisis, or Sentry tearing Ares apart (with bones and guts flying out at the reader) in Siege. Edit: Oh, and Black Adam obliterating Psycho Pirate's head (brains and eyeballs flying out at the reader), also from Infinite Crisis. Geoff Johns isn't afraid to show the gore unfortunately. I think it was early into the weekly series 52 that saw a new Terra-Man committing a crime in Khandaq. He got caught by Black Adam who later ripped him in half in front of news reporters as a warning against crime in his nation. For me, the worst offense was in Green Lantern in the prelude to Blackest Night. Black Hand was home on Earth eating supper with his family and all the gripes and tension of his childhood and life crept into the dinner conversation. Finally, he took out his weapon and killed himself, blew a hole in his head. This was the last page of the issue, full page spread of the look on his face and the blood and gore flying out of the side of his head. Did they really need to show that? Really? A full-on display of suicide. I didn't think that level of display was appropriate to that particular story for there's something to be said for hinting at an action (even off-panel) and letting a reader's imagination fill in the blanks. Oh yeah, I remember that Blackest Night scene, now you mention it. I really like Geoff Johns as a writer, and I wouldn't object to this sort of thing in a mature book, but I don't think it should be in mainstream superheroes. |
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Post by The Cheat on Aug 20, 2017 15:06:11 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2017 18:17:00 GMT -5
I think comics have always been violent. However they are more graphic in the depiction of that violence.
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