I don't see a way out of the current cultural morass. The problem is that 'the nerds' (geeks I guess) moved on from Marvel a long time ago. Mainstream people are into Marvel movies, nerds are into weird obscure backwater reprints of old stories. The mainstream was into Batman v. Superman for the billionth time, while nerds wanted to see the Red Son.
Mainstream people wanted to see Dune re-made, nerds wanted to see Ian M. Banks Culture series get a TV series (which almost happened on Amazon).
Am I projecting abit? Absolutely! But I've also been a nerd my whole life, and most of the things that people associate with 'nerddom' are things I liked when I was a child. The people who like this stuff now seems to be the people who were too embarrassed to like it when they were kids, so now they are 'making up for lost time', but all the other nerds have moved on to other weird niche esoteric nonsense.
I don't see a way out of the current cultural morass. The problem is that 'the nerds' (geeks I guess) moved on from Marvel a long time ago. Mainstream people are into Marvel movies, nerds are into weird obscure backwater reprints of old stories. The mainstream was into Batman v. Superman for the billionth time, while nerds wanted to see the Red Son.
Mainstream people wanted to see Dune re-made, nerds wanted to see Ian M. Banks Culture series get a TV series (which almost happened on Amazon).
Am I projecting abit? Absolutely! But I've also been a nerd my whole life, and most of the things that people associate with 'nerddom' are things I liked when I was a child. The people who like this stuff now seems to be the people who were too embarrassed to like it when they were kids, so now they are 'making up for lost time', but all the other nerds have moved on to other weird niche esoteric nonsense.