Isn't it time that the eras of comics move on to the next cycle past the "modern age"...

Isn't it time that the eras of comics move on to the next cycle past the "modern age"? It's been the modern age since the late 80s, and comics have changed drastically since that time. It can hardly be said comics now have much in common with comics of the late 1980s.

Is that Obama?

Yes, I think the iron age ended in the late 00's or early 10's but I can't pin point an event that draws the lines.
It was not the nu 52, I hate when comic history is cape centric.

For a long time it really was cape-centric, but comics got more varied in the 90s and 00s with DC and Marvel losing market share to other publishers like Image.

It only looks cape centric because of capeshitter historians who treat non cape comics like footnotes.

Dark Age 1985-1999

the edgy modern age as we know it, last era where comic books were still relevant

Movie Age 2000-2012

failed screenwriters invade, decompression replaces traditional sequential storytelling, everything made with adaptations in mind

Gay Age 2013-present

tumblr is the target demographic

Smiler-in-Chief

DKR/Watchmen to Ellis/Hitch's Authority is the long 90s. the writer era characterized by Bendis and Geoff Johns that ended somewhere in the last 5-10 years, we're now in a new era that is finding it's identity

Early 80s to early 90s should be called the Renaissance Age.
Early 90s to mid 00s should be called the Dark Age.

You're an idiot.

comics got more varied in the 90s and 00s

DC and Marvel losing market share to other publishers like Image

Neither of these things happened.

You don't know anything about comics history.

It's been the modern age since the late 80s

No, it hasn't. There is no "modern age". You're a fucking idiot.

I think we're in the Media Age where the comics aren't as important as their potential adaptations are.

"Gay Age 2013-present

tumblr is the target demographic"

Pretty much this. I don't consider this the same age as 1980s comics. Most modern day comics are obsessed with culture war bullshit.

If Joker got prison raped in 1984 I'd assume it was just trying to be edgy. Joker gets raped in 2024 and it seems like the writers are just trying to "own the incel chuds".

Its time for comics to adopt battle shounen. Create a comic book unashamedly for teenage boys. Put cool characters boys can relate to, put a lot of fanservice, most female characters are just eyecandy, create awesome and clever fight scenes. Have a protagonist then give him a rival then another 3rd main character. Minimal to no fagshit, hetero couples in canon only. Make loli characters, make big boobed MILF characters, etc.

You're an idiot.

You’re a genius.

thanks
fuck off

and comics have changed drastically since that time.

2010+14 is not 2011
you are lying

current year + 9
you are lying

You can't put in the same age these things: (british invasion, exxtreme 90s, descompressive TPB six issues stuff, disney fatigue and multiverse fatigue)
Is this way:

Victorian Age (1842–1897)

Platinum Age (1897–1938)

Golden Age (1938–1956)

Silver Age (1956–1970)

Bronze Age (1970–1986)

Dark Age (1986–1991)

Extreme age (1991-1997)

Event (decompressive) age (1997-2011)

Synergy age (2011-2019)

Multiverse fatigue age(2020-2027)

Multiverse fatigue age(2020-2027)

Everything superhero related fatigue, really.

Ignore everyone else, here are the REAL comic ages

Golden age 1938-1851

Atomic age (Superheroes not popular) 1952-1955

Silver age 1956-1970

Bronze age 1971-1985

Iron age 1986-1996 (early 80s grittiness, 90s edginess)

Dark age 1997-2010 (post 9/11 cynicism, civil war)

Modern age 2011-present (completely movie based, try to force new characters, fail)

Why is the text bubble so small?
What's happening in 2028

Iron Age

Because that's when super hero shit was at it's most METAL.

This.

How and when did we all collectively decide on the terms anyways? Earliest I remember seeing them crop up was on some old DC trading cards where you'd have stuff like Golden Age Flash. I feel like a big reason why we've been stuck in the modern age so long is just because there's no way to get anyone to agree to a term especially now that fans can chime in.

Early comics fans in the 60s were already referring to the comics of the 40s as "the Golden Age." You can see the term being used here and there throughout early Marvel letter pages. It comes from the Ancient Greek of the Ages of Man, so the next logical step was to then start referring to the late 50s/60s superhero revival as 'the Silver Age' and so on.

Remember when Marvel tried to push for it's HEROIC AGE? That sure didn't go anywhere.

How would you even really pin down the past couple decades?

>Synergy age (2011-2019)

>Multiverse fatigue age(2020-2027)

More like

(2011-2023) synergy and variant fatigue age

them using the multiverse the way they do is a symptom of the problem and ties into them having to do an excessive number of legacy heroes all at the same time

They tried that with the Solo Damien Robin book, whole plot is a MK style tournament arc, with goth love interest and complex combat.
And it fucking bombed.

This cover brings back edgy memories

I know most comics sold in the US aren't DC or Marvel but instead manga now

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Age_of_Comic_Books

Comic fans generally came up with date ranges as said and comics historians adopted these terms and generally their ranges later. However, there has not really been any major push to make a new break after the 80s. Perhaps because so many people, even the people who read them, feel comics are just an irrelevant medium now and not worth categorizing or studying seriously. Or maybe people just use the categorization by decade now. Like how people say the 90s were hyper edgy but describe the 00s and 10s differently. Perhaps that's how things will go from now on for comics.

I would definitely say comics have a different vibe compared to even 10 years ago to where we could classify them.

Absolute nonsense.

wikipedia

Yep, wikipedia. I'll take wikipedia's word over yours, 1 random guy on the internet.

I'm not sure I'd say they're irrelevant but they're not in the best way anymore. It feels like a lot of their place has been lost when so many "fans" of the characters would rather see them in other media.

Agreed.