I just love superheroes so fucking much
I just love superheroes so fucking much
I've been thinking about making a thread asking how many people actually still like superheroes
Is there a future for the genre, will people get tired out, or will it continue to have certain boom and quiet periods like a cycle? Do all these movies and adaptations help or hurt the genre and characters?
Do you guys like the very concept of superheroes, or is it just a vehicle for the few characters and stories you do like?
Watched EMH again the other day, along with Brave and The Bold and they just aort of reinvigorated my love for these characters. They're just so much better when they're just trying to be awesome and having crazy adventures.
Just the concept is enough for me. Nothing I love more than seeing incredible heroism and virtue on display, saving civilians, getting their asses kicked and not giving up. Of course the number of characters which really live up to that ideal is quite small, and I hate anti-heroes.
Is there a future for the genre, will people get tired out, or will it continue to have certain boom and quiet periods like a cycle? Do all these movies and adaptations help or hurt the genre and characters?
The sad reality is non-Anon Babble media is the only reason these companies didn't go bankrupt, but I'm sure that CBMs will eventually lose so much popularity and die out until they're (mostly) just a relic of the past like Westerns. Hard to say what will happen to the rest of the genre then. I just cope by knowing there's already a lifetime worth of material that's been created, so I'll always have something.
Brave and the Bold is so underrated
November 14, 2008
Holy retirement home soon, Batman!
What do you mean? That was only 5 years ago, anon.
Well yeah, when you post art from the good old 1970s it's easy to say that. Pre-00s comics were popular for a reason. They were entertaining. Good, even.
I still love them, but I worry that really original superheroes will never be super big or even frequent ever again. Everyone seems to love doing pastiches too much
Well that's pretty much a given, I doubt we're ever going to see anything remotely as creative as the likes of silver age Marvel ever again. Has there even been a single good, original superhero in the last 20 years?
The revelation came to me a few years ago.
I own a few 2000s UK Spectacular Spider-Man books. For those who don't know, they're aimed at literal kids with extremely simple stories in the vein of "Spider-Man fights a villain and goes on a date with Mary Jane"/"Spider-Man teams up with another hero (sometimes a UK hero like Captain Britain or Union Jack because
UK
Actually made me think those guys are a bigger deal for Marvel than they really are) to fight a villain outside of Spider-Man's rogues gallery"
I've found those books while digging through old shit in my house so I took some time to read them and I actually enjoyed them. No retarded editorial bullshit, no forced drama or misery porn, just simple superheroics with a mix of civvie life.
How Marvel struggles so much with something even books for kids got right I have no idea.
I hate anti-heroes
but I worry that really original superheroes will never be super big or even frequent ever again
We already got enough that work. No need to reinvent the wheel. You'll just make something lamer than what's already available.
I don't really need the wheel re invented so much as I just want stuff that doesn't fall into the trappings of tights and gold/silver age morality either ironically or legitimately. I do agree that most of the established capes can still be used to make great comps and there's seemingly millions of Z listers to re-tool
I like them as a concept, but the execution is usually not very satisfying.
This is a very philistine, almost incestuous way of thinking. I think that's why we're in a mess today woth this genre.
I think that's why we're in a mess today woth this genre.
Duds, the MCU was lightning in a bottle. We're back to just Spider-Man and Batman being the only guys that matter again.
lightning in a bottle
You don't know what that means.
I'm sure that CBMs will eventually... die out until they're (mostly) just a relic of the past like Westerns
I don't think it'll be that extreme. Superhero stories are so sci-fi-adjacent that they'd never feel as nostalgic or "out of style" as Westerns eventually did.
I do since ONLY the MCU succeeded, whereas every other cinematic universe floundered. MonsterVerse doesn't count since that's just the Godzilla X Kong franchise now.
Before Iron Man, the most successful superhero franchises were Batman, Spider-Man, and X-Men. Superman had a brief time in the 70s and early 80s but he returned with a whimper. After a series of duds, we've returned to form. Lightning in a bottle sounds about right, though it lasted for a decade.
I think about stuff like mecha
Used to be that half of every anime coming out was mecha or mecha adjacent, it was seen as inseparable from the medium, now it's relatively niche and only a few come out every other year as the big ones keep going
How many capeshit threads are there on this fucking board? I don't know what I was thinking, Anon Babble is always home.
capeshit board desu
I fucking love super heroes
A good super hero story can be a character study, a story about moral relativism, individualism, community, duality. The way a Super's secret identity can take on a life of its own, a separate entity that exists in the minds of criminals and wrong-doers, while the man himself remains just that blends themes of identity, existence, and performance art and doesn't really exist in almost any other genre.
But normie retards who've never picked up a comic think they've picked up everything there is to know about a character from mass marketing.
Secret identities are confusing to them.
Vigilantes are "fascist"
Super powers "corrupt"
It's all so tiresome...
Cartoon board really.
now it's relatively niche and only a few come out every other year as the big ones keep going
But normie retards who've never picked up a comic think they've picked up everything there is to know about a character from mass marketing.
There are no normies on Twitter that aren't just liking and retweeting shit. The nutbars calling them fascists aren't normies, but spergy fucks like you.
Then go back.
I just love superheroes so fucking much
So do I but spider-man is not one of them since he is plain dumb be sure to look up OMD for that.
will people get tired out
I have for the most part. There’s only a few characters that I’ll never get tired of
I love spidey, he so cool
If you read current cape comics and watch adaptations, you hate superheroes.
Me too, bro.
yeah but both sides talk about capeshit
even Anon Babble tourists who don't watch or read comics and cartoons
HE"S A MENACE I TELL YOU AND BELONGS BEHIND BARS
Exactly what I was thinking about. Same thing happened to kaijus too
But I think superheroes are such a loose and fluid concept, so maybe they'll morph into something else. I see a lot of characters get labeled as superheroes that I'm not sure really fit, they're just comic characters.
All he had to do was keep his mouth shut. Don Cheadle's Rhodey looks like that one old black man who always sits in the back of the church.
Using a picture of Web Man
Jonah, you idiot.
ITT: Liars
dan more is so overrated its ridiculous. perfectly boring art
I just wish the people who make superhero movies and comicbooks liked superheroes nowadays
Bro, most people don't like that shit. They grew out of it so it's gotta be changed to seem less kiddy and gay.
Same thing happened to kaijus too
GxK does fine enough. Same with Minus One.
But are they doing almost early godzillas like they did in the 70's and 80's
Even Marvel did a lot of monster comics in the silver age
He’s someone who wouldve been on b-list books 20 years ago
They manage to get passionate people to work on way nerdier shit