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Post by Slam_Bradley on May 15, 2017 9:58:01 GMT -5
Yes, maybe they should come up with another name other than modern. IMHO, I don't think anything worth while has been created past 2010. You're entitled to your opinion no matter how wrong it is. |
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Post by badwolf on May 15, 2017 10:50:45 GMT -5
I voted "other" for reasons which have already been stated. If we are just talking about Marvel then I think their peak was in bronze, though there have of course been good books since. For DC I prefer post-Crisis, which I guess would be considered modern or maybe the tail end of bronze. We all know about the 90s, but that was also the time of Vertigo and offbeat superhero books like Animal Man, Doom Patrol, and Starman. Then around the turn of the century Grant Morrison brought his weirdness to JLA and Kurt Busiek revitalized the Avengers. So yeah, great comics never ended.
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Post by Icctrombone on May 15, 2017 10:52:59 GMT -5
Yes, maybe they should come up with another name other than modern. IMHO, I don't think anything worth while has been created past 2010. You're entitled to your opinion no matter how wrong it is. I just got slammed by slam. |
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Post by Crimebuster on May 15, 2017 11:20:44 GMT -5
Like most people who have voted and replied, I don't think the question is valid, as there have been great - and terrible - comics published in every era, including the present.
If the question is actually whether we think the Silver Age or the Bronze Age is better, I'm a Bronze Age guy. The Silver Age is great, but its changes and innovations were for the most part dictated by the constrictions of the comics code. So the development in the super hero realm was great, at the expense of almost everything else. With the code loosening in 1971 at the start of the Bronze Age, creators were able to branch back out and try new things, leading to a creative explosion, not to mention the beginning of the independent market with books like Cerebus, Elfquest, and Sabre among others. So yeah, I'm a Bronze Age guy if we're just comparing those two eras, much as I love some Silver Age work.
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Post by brutalis on May 15, 2017 13:06:53 GMT -5
I could vote other but choose to not vote at all because i truly believe there is great fun and good comics to be found in every generation of comics. I love all the different ages and for their differences and styles.
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Post by Reptisaurus! on May 15, 2017 16:14:25 GMT -5
Y'know, in terms of mainstream, factory system comics, I think the Silver Age was the beginning of the end.
The '50s gave us Bark's ducks, Stanley's Little Lulu, Kurtzman's War Comics, Boy's Ranch, and in Everett's Sub-Mariner a superhero run that was at least as good as anything from the next 20 years.
But that could just be my perception: The Golden Age is negative twenty-three, right?
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Post by rom on May 15, 2017 18:23:08 GMT -5
I will admit that the height of comics for me was from around 1970 - 1985. I only started reading comics in the late '70's, but was introduced to the earlier part of the decade via the back issues.
The direct-market stores that started to get popular in the early '80's were amazing, and led to a lot of great comic series that wouldn't have existed otherwise.
However, by the late '80's I was into Comico (Grendel, etc.) and then in the '90's I got into Dark Horse & some of the Vertigo titles. So, the '90's does hold some great comic related memories as well, they just didn't involve super-hero comics.
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Post by berkley on May 15, 2017 19:19:00 GMT -5
If it applies at all, for me it would be only to Marvel. In the late 70s or early 80s most of their best writers left to work elsewhere and they've never recovered, IMO.
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