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What Age Are We In Again??

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slym2none

slym2none

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Why do people have to assign an age to comics? All it does is just cause confusion and dissension. Why not just go by the year of the comic? 1956…1962…1970… How hard is that? Or go by decades? (shrug)

 

You take your logic & reason and you just get the hell out of here!

 

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-slym

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VintageComics

VintageComics

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How about the Diamond age?

 

They've dominated comic distribution since the mid 1990's, those 'die cut' covers were all the rage over the past few decades and if we're moving into the digital age it seems like an apt name.

 

 

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Microchip

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Well ages have always been defined by a shift in the medium. Attached to the advancement of the 20th century.

 

And the most notable shift of the modern age has been the transition of hobby from being directed at children/(young adults) to adults.

And then becoming the fodder for lazy screen-writers, and Hollywood studio's. Wanting to make movies with built in audiences. Everything Allan More, and Frank miller ever did is in serious movie contention it seems. Plus the rest thrown in.

 

Aliens v Predator, and Supe v Batman bare this out all too painfully.

...though AVP is kinda watacble if I'm honest.

 

So while it might not roll of the tongue, or fit even slightly with the other ages, the 'movie age' does seem somewhat fitting.

 

The ages, Golden, to Bronze, represent the infancy and maturing of the medium. and what we see now, is that basis repeated, and rehashed, as no new genre's have appeared, and non of the old ones have disappeared since the bronze age.

TMNT, Cerebus, are all pastiche's of earlier works. Everything these days, can ultimately be described as a homage to something from either 20, 30, 40 or even 50 years ago.

 

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conditionfreak

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You made me look up "pastiche". Although in the context of the sentence you used it. It was evident what it meant. But I looked it up anyway.

 

a literary, artistic, musical, or architectural work that imitates the style of previous work; also : such stylistic imitation

 

 

Don't make me do that again. Head hurt. :)

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1dingo

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1938-1945... Golden Age

1946-1955... Atom Age

1956-1967... Silver Age

1968-1979... Bronze Age

1980-1992... Copper Agemetals 2004... Chromium Age

 

 

2005-Future... Solder Age?

 

Digital age isn't metallic enough, and but solder is related to both metals and electronics

 

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Ebel 1911

Ebel 1911

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Why do people have to assign an age to comics? All it does is just cause confusion and dissension. Why not just go by the year of the comic? 1956…1962…1970… How hard is that? Or go by decades? (shrug)

 

You take your logic & reason and you just get the hell out of here!

 

(:

 

 

 

-slym

 

 

lol

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1Cool

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1990 - 1999 is the Tin Age. Basically worthless.

 

2000 - 2010 Plastic Age or Granite Age. Either its easily disposable or a solid base to build on depending on how you look at it.

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