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Post by thisguy4000 on Mar 28, 2020 16:53:21 GMT
There’s been a common argument going around for a while now that the Watchmen comics are to blame for superhero stories becoming unnecessarily dark, violent and cynical. Of course, the entire point of the comics was to serve as a satirical deconstruction that highlights how terrible superheroes would be if you applied real world logic to them, so it obviously wasn’t meant to influence the genre into becoming a certain way. Regardless, many people, including Geoff Johns, seem to hold it responsible for stuff like the 90s era of comic books, the New 52 run and Zack Snyder’s take on DC.
So, where do people here stand on the matter?
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Post by pennypacker on Mar 28, 2020 19:18:49 GMT
No, but I much prefer “darker” takes.
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Post by Prime etc. on Mar 28, 2020 19:30:27 GMT
Comics were getting darker since the Comics Code relaxed their standards. And in fact, before the comics code, super hero comics tended to be violent. In the first Joker story he kills a judge.
I glanced through a Man-Thing comic from 1975 and the plot was about a college having a protest and this Kenny Rogers type guy without a shirt kills his daughter for disobeying him and the Man-Thing touches him and he screams (whoever knows fear burns at the touch of the Man-Thing).
The Watchmen just signaled the time when the political message became more overt.
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Post by FridayOnElmStreet on Mar 31, 2020 14:32:10 GMT
No
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Apr 1, 2020 9:44:55 GMT
I think the idiots that misunderstood Watchmen are solely responsible for ruining things in their attempts to imitate it unironically. It's not Dodge's fault if some dumbass drag races it into a light pole.
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Post by summers8 on Apr 1, 2020 17:05:44 GMT
no
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Post by primeone on Apr 2, 2020 22:24:33 GMT
No
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