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I'm more than old enough to have a 13-year old offspring without any age-of-consent laws being broken¹, and I distinctly remember there been dark tones in comic
by dspillett 5y ago
I'm more than old enough to have a 13-year old offspring without any age-of-consent laws being broken¹, and I distinctly remember there been dark tones in comic books and² related cartoons back in my youth. It isn't a new thing.
I suspect that either there is some selective memory going on here, or the writer's parents were very careful about what parts of the comics world they were exposed to.
[1] old enough to have a 26-year-old one even
[2] though much less so as the grimier ones didn't get the TV treatment, or the grime was mostly washed off
- rebuilder 5y agoAs a kid, Daredevil was my favourite. It was pretty bleak, didn’t seem to bother me.
- givemeethekeys 5y agoGargoyles, Batman, Spiderman cartoons from the late 90s... they were dark, compared of Power Rangers, which was on at the same time.
- giantrobot 5y agoThose comics were visually dark and had some darkish themes but they weren't much darker than Power Rangers or anything else on at the time. If anything they were more sophisticated shows than Power Rangers. That's not to say Power Rangers was bad, but Spider-Man and Gargoyles were interesting in that they used multi-episode storylines with multiple acts. Outside of their visual motifs they weren't dark series. They were just offering narratives for older kids that were reading books and comics and playing video games.
- kerblang 5y agoYes, the transition is really an 80's-90's thing. A lot of films are basically using comics from that era as storyboards. The few superhero films of that era were generally lightweight fare based on much older comics.