[ SECRET POST #2346 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2346 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Awesome things that have been done to death

[intrigueing]

The whole "deconstructing the superhero and showing the darker implications of superheroing" thing in comic books.

It was awesome in 1985. It was played out by 1990. And yet they're still doing it as though it's groundbreaking AAAAAAAARRRRRGGGGHHH.

Seriously, can we please get the motor going with the whole incorporating the darker implications into the genuinely heroic and idealistic original superheroing model to make a broader and more nuanced cohesive whole? I find that fascinating, and yet every writer who does it gets overshadowed by storylines pushed through by morons going "Chilly down dog, lets me and my homies do a Watchmen ripoff again even though it came out twenty five years ago, yo!"

Re: Awesome things that have been done to death

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, it's the weirdest thing because people have moved on from that and tried to take the next step and written awesome, interesting stories that take that for granted and move on from it and do attempt to return to idealism. It's just that for whatever reason there's also a lot of people out there who are never going to stop doing this, for whom the trope of investigating the dark side of superheroes apparently never gets old. It's strange.

Re: Awesome things that have been done to death

[intrigueing]

Yeah, it's not so much investigating the dark side of heroes, as it is doing it in such a way as though they're the first people to have ever come up with this huge radical edgy deconstruction. *eyeroll* They think imitating a deconstruction that was thoroughly explored decades ago makes for a good story all by itself, and it just makes me go "...that's it? You ruined a perfectly good status quo just for that? We know that already."

Re: Awesome things that have been done to death

[writerserenyty]

I think in general people still go "let's make things gritty and dark and that's edgy," with comics and other media. I tend to like happy, upbeat stuff, but no that's not serious enough for some people

Re: Awesome things that have been done to death

[(Anonymous)]

+9000

I am so sick of all these hack writers acting like their (usually poorly written) grim-'n'-gritty bullshit is sooooo original and innovative.

Memo to all the comic book writers out there: If you want to write about grim-'n'-gritty superheroes, that's fine. But don't pretend you're the first person to come up with the idea! It makes you look like an ignorant twit.