Actually, I like my comic both ways. :-) While I adore The Dark Knight Returns and Watchmen, I also enough Marvel Adventures and Super Hero Squad. I don't believe Comics (the big, general field) should be for one group. The medium allows for multiple groups to be heard and reached. And frankly, you need a gateway comic like Marvel Adventures to suck kids into to become regular readers later on in life. Without them, no one would read Watchmen.

But, yeah, the "silver age" of comics was quite...weird.

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Yeah, there has to be something for everyone.

But I suppose comics are like any other popular art form, they reflect the times they're made in. Kids in the 50s and 60s might have accepted that Jimmy Olson stuff, but I suspect that if you put it in front of kids now, they'd point at it and laugh.

Me, I grew up reading comics about dinosaurs eating people and future lawmen blasting criminal scum. But that was the 70s and everything was getting a bit more cynical by then. Ot maybe it was just that those were British comics? LOL

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Three major events I remember from the late 70s/early 80s of comic reading:

1) Death of Jean Grey (the first time)
2) Daredevil and Elektra saga (hurray for Frank Miller!)
3) Crisis on Infinite Earths (much love for George Perez)

I believe that's when comics embraced their soap-opera origins. Pre-WWII, most comics were written for girls (True Romance, etc.).

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I didn't really start reading Marvel or DC stuff until the mid 80s. I remember the first appearance of Killer Croc in Batman. I still have those comics under the bed somewhere. Must dig them out and give them a read some time!

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While the X-men may have sucked my pre-adolescent ass in to comics, it was Frank Miller's run on Daredevil sealed the deal. I loved Elektra.

I have a large amount of John Byrne X-Men. I will dig those out from time to time to read. However, I have a whole shelf in my bookcase filled with trade paperbacks.

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Yeah, I've got loads of TPBs on my shelves too. But I kept most of the original comics, and they're gathering dust under the bed. Hundreds of issues of 2000AD, and lots of Marvel & DC stuff. I kept them so I could read them again, but I never do. And yet, I can't bring myself to throw them out!

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You realize, when I come visit, I will make love to your comics.

Yes, I will.

And if you ever throw them out, I will lobby to bomb Scotland! You will have committed the worst crime!

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I will make love to your comics.

Heh. I hope you can tolerate a lot of dust! :P

I must get under the bed and dig some out, and maybe scan some of the covers. That would be a fun little project. :)

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You're just doing it to force me onto a plane for hours on end.

Bastard. :-)

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