DuracellEnergizer said:
DrCrowTStarwars said:
This is just sad,they do know that since kids can no longer read comics their sales are just going to keep shrinking right?
DC and Marvel are both run by continuity-obsessed fanboys who haven't been kids in decades, thus their audience is largely made up of continuity-obsessed fanboys who haven't been kids in decades.
Basically, they only write stories for themselves -- stories which are almost always Z-grade ripoffs of Frank Miller and Alan Moore stories -- and are incapable of seeing past their own egos to understand that they're shooting themselves and the companies they work for in the foot.
Or they could hire some of the writers who worked on Batman the Animated series or Spectacular Spiderman,they seemed to understand how to tell good comic book stories without going to far. Anything would be better then this.
I know that Paul Dini worked as a writer on Detective Comics. I haven't read any of his storylines, though, so I can't say how good they are.
Yeah That is what I thought. To me comics should be for the kid in all of us not the blood thirsty adult. What is more they keep trying to top themselves and like pop stars who wear less and less clothing every time they go on stage pretty soon there will be nowhere left to go and that is just sad. What is more if you talk to the fanboys all you hear about is how great modern comic books are because they are dark. That is one reason I love Linkara's reviews he sees this poorly written garbage for what it is. Just because something is dark doesn't make it good. Darkness like everything else has to serve a point. Man I hate living in the grimdark age.
I don't know about Paul Dini,I will have to see if I can find his stuff online. If you ask me his work in the animated universe was far more adult then any of the comics we have today because the darkness that was there had a point and he remembered he was telling stories about men in capes who fight crimes and made the stories for kids.
I really wish modern comics would look to shows like Doctor Who for their tone. I mean that show can be scary,sad,and dark but it also never loses it's sense of adventure and it rarely goes too far for the kids and yet it still appeals to adults and remains popular. Maybe the next generation of writers will be fans of stuff like Doctor Who and we will be able to leave this sad stupid area behind us at last.