The Good Old Days

[captain_slinky]

Remember when comic books used to be about heroic people doing heroic stuff and taking the moral high-road even if it didn't make much sense because, well, they were the HEROES?

Man, I miss those days...

Thank goodness I can still pick up some 70+ YEARS of Heroic Comic Books for about 25-cents per issue instead of shelling out $4 an issue for moral ambiguity!

(SIDE NOTE: Today is the anniversary of the very last "New" super-hero comic book I bought - "Final Crisis #6")

Comments

[waygroovy.livejournal.com]

OTHER than the gratuitous use of moral ambiguity and the skyrocketing pricing on comics.... why... wait..

guess that answers that.

[sasjhwa.livejournal.com]

Here is the pitch session at DC Comics.

"Okay I've got something totally original for the next Batman story arc."

* "No you don't"

"Yeah, Yeah! You see, we kill off Batman."

* "Like we did Superman?"

"Nothing like that, you see, he is really dead. But there is a twist. Batman will live on with his former junior sidekick in the cowl. Brilliant, right?"

* "You think so? Really?"

"It is so original no one will see it coming!"

* "Like they didn't see it coming when Bucky took over the shield and suit when Captain America was killed in a shockingly exactly the same way?"

"Pfft. Marvel hacks! This is so totally different than that! Batman won't be under arrest, he'll be in a helicopter! Do I have to spell the word original for you to understand how totally awesome this will be?! BrIIIlliant!"