I am so glad the Coronavirus is killing off the American mainstream comic book industry. It'll go the same way as radio dramas and stage plays, never to be seen again. Comic books have never been good. They started out as cheap entertainment for drooling children. Then in the 70s and 80s some dumbasses got the idea that comic books should be for adults too. For all I hear people praise shit like Batman Year One you're still a retard for reading it instead of real literature. How can you honestly call yourself an adult if you dedicate your time to reading about idiots in funny costumes punching people really hard. Again, these books were originally meant for children. But fuck, making comic books darker didn't work did it? No, then we got nuMarvel and nuDC where shitty SJWs turn everyone into black lesbians and all the villains are racist. The comic industry was a trainwreck from beginning to end. I can't wait until Marvel, DC, Image and Dark Horse are all gone then all we've got left is Captain fucking Underpants. Comics will go back to being for children, the way it's supposed to be. Fuck superman, fuck Batman, fuck comic books and fuck you.
FUCK COMIC BOOKS AND FUCK YOU FOR READING THEM
>I am so glad the Coronavirus is killing off the American mainstream comic book industry.
Nothing will kill it. This is just another bump in the path of the decaying zombie it has been for 40 years.
Nigger what sales were extremely strong throughout the 80s and creativity/quality was at a 20+ year high in that decade as well.
comics suck. i'm not even sure why people read them besides taking broad strokes to apply to live action films these days while cutting out all the cringe and a lot of of it is just cringe.
Whambulance
Faggot. I can read whatever the hell I want and be content knowing you're this assblasted
Read comics outside of Big 2 capeshit maybe?
Fuck off, faggot. Superheroes comics are modern day mythology, and I get all my life lessons from Superman comics.
This epidemic is just like Infinite crisis where the universe was about to be destroyed.
Because Carol is the best
>stage plays
Broadway is still a multi-million business. Multi-billion probably, but I'm not sure about the numbers.
Hi OP!
>How can you honestly call yourself an adult if you dedicate your time to reading about idiots in funny costumes punching people really hard.
Part of being an adult or "man" is being willing to follow your passions and convictions even if most of society frowns upon it.
I’m not American but what really soured me of American superhero comics was the post-9/11 propaganda stuff that Marvel and DC are publishing, is like the Bush administration was written the comic books like the Ultimates or Justice League during that time. Things became normal when Obama became President bu them went crazy with identity politics that mostly hurts the Left than the Right.
Cape Comics are too heavily politicized, don’t have exciting coreagraphed battles like shonen manga, constant reboots and editorial and creative team changes,... I’m a comics nerd but the big two made everything to pushed me out.
Just so you know plays are a higher tier than most forms of literature.
Bush was portrayed as an idiot. Civil War was thinly veiled commentary on the Patriot Act and while the writers said they tried to make it even/were on Tony's side the vast majority of fans sided with Cap , who was against it.
Just like your mangas
Also radio dramas survive as podcasts so OP picked some terrible examples.
You're going to die anyway and nothing you do matters. Why not find ways to enjoy yourself in the process?
>these books were originally meant for children.
way to throw Eisner and Hugo Pratt under the bus. Some of the best creators of the industry were writing for adults, and their works are respected by adults.
Ultimates was written by a Scot who was half taking the piss the entire time
About the only thing I think anyone took as a lesson from it is that Bryan Hitch can draw pretty good and that a black ops bastard looks more plausible as Samuel L Jackson in a black trenchcoat than David Hasselhoff in a sci-fi organization pulp uniform
Since I'm not an adult apparently, fuck your mom fuck your dad fuck your siblings fuck your grandma fuck your grandpa fuck your aunts fuck your uncles fuck your cousins fuck your nieces fuck your nephews fuck your cat fuck your dog fuck your goldfish but most of all fuck you
God, I fucking hate cartoons.
all cartoons? or just current mainstream ones?
What? You mean the entire medium of comics isnt just superheroes? I'm shocked I tell you. Just shocked. Next you'll be telling me manga are just comics made in a different country
>It'll go the same way as radio dramas and stage plays
user
>doesnt have choreographed fights taking up 16 of the 20 pages every month
Thank god. Also if the writing is done well you shouldn't be relying on just the action to be cool.
>It'll go the same way as radio dramas
You mean find a niche on the internet? ok....
Hell, even superheroes are moving into radio dramas. Podcasts have made this a big deal again.
I’m sorry you’ve been locked up so long, user. It’s starting to take a toll. You’ve even forgotten that you don’t even have to read comics if they don’t die.
Disney will keep the tumblr artist and their pedo white knights employed , dont worry
comics are for anyone that wants to read them.