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What Happened to the Silver Age?
Apr. 5th, 2016 08:33 pmFirst, a disclaimer. I am not big into comic books. I just don't have the money for it. My main interaction with the Silver Age is with such shows as The Superfriends and similar Saturday Morning Cartoons of the 80s. Feel free to correct me on what I get wrong.
In my Scene I'd Like to See: The Incredibles*, Gehayi had a good comment. When talking about how the world had to work, in the twenty years after lawsuits drove superheroes into hiding, apparently I had described the Silver Age. The Silver Age respected normal people in a number of ways.
Batman worked with the police and even at Commissioner Gordon's request. Superman would ask the authorities if they needed help before going to work. And, ordinary people were the important matter when superheroes went to work, saving lives and property. More importantly, the openly praised people who weren't superheroes and didn't have superpowers. They were still heroes.
That and other bits of the Silver Age seem to have fallen out of favor. Again, I don't know comic books all that well, but I do know a bit about more recent comicbook movies, such as Man of Steel and Batman-v-Superman. There's also such characters as The Punisher and Wolverine and other people who do dark deeds for the greater good, the rise of the anti-hero.
There's a natural question to ask as not only comic books, but fictions in general find themselves going more and more into the Dark Age, why are we abandoning the Silver Age Values?
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In my Scene I'd Like to See: The Incredibles*, Gehayi had a good comment. When talking about how the world had to work, in the twenty years after lawsuits drove superheroes into hiding, apparently I had described the Silver Age. The Silver Age respected normal people in a number of ways.
Batman worked with the police and even at Commissioner Gordon's request. Superman would ask the authorities if they needed help before going to work. And, ordinary people were the important matter when superheroes went to work, saving lives and property. More importantly, the openly praised people who weren't superheroes and didn't have superpowers. They were still heroes.
That and other bits of the Silver Age seem to have fallen out of favor. Again, I don't know comic books all that well, but I do know a bit about more recent comicbook movies, such as Man of Steel and Batman-v-Superman. There's also such characters as The Punisher and Wolverine and other people who do dark deeds for the greater good, the rise of the anti-hero.
There's a natural question to ask as not only comic books, but fictions in general find themselves going more and more into the Dark Age, why are we abandoning the Silver Age Values?
( Read more... )
