exist outside the cultural/collective acceptance of the currently existing hegemony without being properly subsumed by it or "allowed" to exist in its graces
they killed disco because black and queer people had the gal to make it during the 70s and 80s
there is nothing threatening to the status quo about the superhero genre or storytelling element in most mainstream comics/sequential art storytelling in general for idk how long. you can probably solve, subvert, etc. a genre but the nature of infinite content in the 21st century means that it's nearly impossible for something to become truly "dead" in the same way that contemporary literature killed prior storytelling conventions or tv killed radio etc. etc. etc.
at least for now with our current technology but i'm not holding my breath on VR or any of that shit miraculously changing the power of narrative storytelling or changing genre conventions
this is all coming from someone who professes constantly how much they hate capeshit but still will sneak-read a marvel or dc comic every once in a while (yes i am secretly still binge reading the current hickman x-men among other things run don't tell anyone)
exist outside the cultural/collective acceptance of the currently existing hegemony without being properly subsumed by it or "allowed" to exist in its graces
they killed disco because black and queer people had the gal to make it during the 70s and 80s
there is nothing threatening to the status quo about the superhero genre or storytelling element in most mainstream comics/sequential art storytelling in general for idk how long. you can probably solve, subvert, etc. a genre but the nature of infinite content in the 21st century means that it's nearly impossible for something to become truly "dead" in the same way that contemporary literature killed prior storytelling conventions or tv killed radio etc. etc. etc.
at least for now with our current technology but i'm not holding my breath on VR or any of that shit miraculously changing the power of narrative storytelling or changing genre conventions
this is all coming from someone who professes constantly how much they hate capeshit but still will sneak-read a marvel or dc comic every once in a while (yes i am secretly still binge reading the current hickman x-men among other things run don't tell anyone)