“I tend to think that, no, comics hadn’t grown up,” he said. “There were a few titles that were more adult than people were used to. But the majority of comics titles were pretty much the same as they’d ever been. It wasn’t comics growing up. I think it was more comics meeting the emotional age of the audience coming the other way.”
I wish more superhero fans would admit it's for little diaper babies. I read and watch stuff that's for babies, don't get me wrong. I watch anime and play Mario games but I don't obsess over them or pretend they're more meaningful than they are.
Moore never misses, except I guess that one weird comic he wrote that's borderline child porn with Wendy from Peter Pan.
I think a angle never examined is not that superhero comics are inherently childish, being consumer media they are by nature childish and reduced to a common denominator, but what it means for children narratives to create a consistent characters throughout the medium (with few exceptions) of outright fascists to individuals that would gladly maintain a fascist status quo. What then would be childish consumer media that is not inherently fascist or imperialist? There's Star Wars but that shit flew over most nerds heads that never understood it was legit vietcong in space killing US death squad troopers alongside colonized bears on a forest moon.
I watch them with my small children. That's what they're for and no one should pretend otherwise. That and exposing me to Taika Waititi, I wouldn't have watched What We Do in the Shadows without Ragnarok being grade A slop and I'm grateful for marvel for exactly that one thing
I wish more superhero fans would admit it's for little diaper babies. I read and watch stuff that's for babies, don't get me wrong. I watch anime and play Mario games but I don't obsess over them or pretend they're more meaningful than they are.
Moore never misses, except I guess that one weird comic he wrote that's borderline child porn with Wendy from Peter Pan.
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I think a angle never examined is not that superhero comics are inherently childish, being consumer media they are by nature childish and reduced to a common denominator, but what it means for children narratives to create a consistent characters throughout the medium (with few exceptions) of outright fascists to individuals that would gladly maintain a fascist status quo. What then would be childish consumer media that is not inherently fascist or imperialist? There's Star Wars but that shit flew over most nerds heads that never understood it was legit vietcong in space killing US death squad troopers alongside colonized bears on a forest moon.
It went over their heads because Americans cannot conceive that the US is anything but the good guys.
I watch them with my small children. That's what they're for and no one should pretend otherwise. That and exposing me to Taika Waititi, I wouldn't have watched What We Do in the Shadows without Ragnarok being grade A slop and I'm grateful for marvel for exactly that one thing