I miss covers with substance 3 3

[Poekaymon]

The evolution (or devolution, if you want) of covers is no doubt a side effect of CGC and modern collecting as a whole.  Covers are more pure "art" now than something that is like a splash page with all sorts of dialog boxes, and editor comments, that are related to the story.  That is totally to be expected since a lot of people collecting now don't even open the comics up.  My favorite cover as an 80s child, H 340, I guess is somewhere in the middle.  But I can appreciate some of the new "virgin" variant covers as pure art, as I can appreciate the AF 15 cover, as a schticky, old school, tune-in-to-see-what-happens-next type thing.

I think the bigger issue is that the stories, to me, seem considerably worse, and the word count has gone way down.  Could they even do Dark Knight Returns today?  I don't think so.  Could probably do the cover though.  

Edited November 27, 2021 by Poekaymon

[jcjames]

On 11/26/2021 at 4:32 PM, kav said:

Apparently there is nothing modern that is bad.  Its all super awesome and if someone criticizes it, theyre just get off my lawners.
Sheer logic shows this is ridiculous.  There are plenty of things that are worse now than in the past.  A refrigerator used to last 50 years.  Now they are designed to wear out in 12.  Thats just one example.

Yeah but does that 50 year old fridge have an internal webcam and barcode reader with wifi and able to show you pictures of the inside of your fridge and keep a list of what you're running low on and send it all to your smartphone while you're in the grocery store parking lot stall waiting for them to bring out your groceries that you ordered online in between you snapchatting a tik-tok video of you eating french fries with a googley-eye/cat-nose filter? Ha. Didn't think so boomer. 

[kav]

On 11/26/2021 at 4:12 PM, jcjames said:

Yeah but does that 50 year old fridge have an internal webcam and barcode reader with wifi and able to show you pictures of the inside of your fridge and keep a list of what you're running low on and send it all to your smartphone while you're in the grocery store parking lot stall waiting for them to bring out your groceries that you ordered online in between you snapchatting a tik-tok video of you eating french fries with a googley-eye/cat-nose filter? Ha. Didn't think so boomer. 

rather have a fridge that lasts 50 years myself.  I'm not lazy like millennials-I can do all that other stuff myself.

[Randall Ries]

On 11/26/2021 at 6:55 PM, Shawn Everidge said:

I enjoy older stuff too, but I’m not so close-minded as to write everything off in the last thirty years or so as garbage. There was plenty of garbage in the old days too.

Never said there wasn't garbage in "the old days". Where did I write everything off as garbage?

[davidtere]

This fits the criteria set by the OP (he didn't say just DC or Marvel). Published within the last 30 years and I could have picked any of Rosa's covers at random and the interior art (and stories) are typically great as well. 

Adventure stories with a plot and funny as well. 

It may not be your cup of tea...but if you have never read a Don Rosa story...well...!

Of course there is ''The Life of Times of Scrooge McDuck" 

[Randall Ries]

On 11/26/2021 at 7:16 PM, kav said:

rather have a fridge that lasts 50 years myself.  I'm not lazy like millennials-I can do all that other stuff myself.

Jesus, yes. I don't need my refrigerator to suddenly become self aware. Wasn't a T-1000 that did me in. It was a Frigidaire-2000. Smothered me with my own potato salad.

[Randall Ries]

On 11/26/2021 at 7:12 PM, jcjames said:

Yeah but does that 50 year old fridge have an internal webcam and barcode reader with wifi and able to show you pictures of the inside of your fridge and keep a list of what you're running low on and send it all to your smartphone while you're in the grocery store parking lot stall waiting for them to bring out your groceries that you ordered online in between you snapchatting a tik-tok video of you eating french fries with a googley-eye/cat-nose filter? Ha. Didn't think so boomer. 

Are you really that helpless and infant-esque you need a refrigerator to do all that? And what happens when all that breaks down? Do you starve? Or call Momma? God DAMN I wonder what your bathroom is doing for you? LOL!

[kav]

On 11/26/2021 at 4:19 PM, Randall Ries said:

Jesus, yes. I don't need my refrigerator to suddenly become self aware. Wasn't a T-1000 that did me in. It was a Frigidaire-2000. Smothered me with my own potato salad.

I know right?  Young uns now need a fridge to wipe they *** too?

[Ryan.]

On 11/26/2021 at 7:17 PM, davidtere said:

The Life of Times of Scrooge McDuck" 

One of the greatest comic epics ever written. 

[Cliff R.]

On 11/26/2021 at 7:19 PM, Randall Ries said:

Jesus, yes. I don't need my refrigerator to suddenly become self aware. Wasn't a T-1000 that did me in. It was a Frigidaire-2000. Smothered me with my own potato salad.

I forsee a day when AI is incorporated into the fridge.  It begins by making dietary suggestions, then evolves to scan your body mass index.  It will make certain compartments inaccessible until you shape up and obey. 

[Lord Gemini]

On 11/26/2021 at 6:17 PM, Randall Ries said:

Never said there wasn't garbage in "the old days". Where did I write everything off as garbage?

Read your first comment about how everything new is garbage.

Edited November 27, 2021 by Shawn Everidge

[kav]

 Future kids:
My fridge can cook food for me, email, analyze eating trends, create meal plans, play movies.
Only lasts a week tho-

[kav]

Future comics:
No words at all, just pages filled with variant superhero poses.

[kav]

someone says ok boomer say ok milly.   

[namisgr]

On 11/26/2021 at 7:28 PM, Cliff R. said:

I forsee a day when AI is incorporated into the fridge.  It begins by making dietary suggestions, then evolves to scan your body mass index.  It will make certain compartments inaccessible until you shape up and obey. 

Have you seen the size of Americans lately?  That's not gonna happen.

 

[jcjames]

On 11/26/2021 at 5:22 PM, Randall Ries said:

Are you really that helpless and infant-esque you need a refrigerator to do all that? And what happens when all that breaks down? Do you starve? Or call Momma? God DAMN I wonder what your bathroom is doing for you? LOL!

Hey gramps, we're too busy cleaning the mess your generation left us to be bothered making shopping lists and remembering stuff. Cleaning the oceans and saving the planet from imminent self-annihilation is far more hard than anything any other generation had to do. So what if we do have a fridge that automatically grocery-shops online for us and only dispenses healthy foods to us throughout the day based on our stool and urine composition analyzed by AI-toilet sensors with which it communicates hourly.  

[jcjames]

[kav]

On 11/26/2021 at 4:36 PM, jcjames said:

Hey gramps, we're too busy cleaning the mess your generation left us to be bothered making shopping lists and remembering stuff. Cleaning the oceans and saving the planet from imminent self-annihilation is far more hard than anything any other generation had to do. So what if we do have a fridge that automatically grocery-shops online for us and only dispenses healthy foods to us throughout the day based on our stool and urine composition analyzed by AI-toilet sensors with which it communicates hourly.  

Hate to break it to you but your generation consumes far more than ours ever did.  Your pollution footprint eclipses ours with the disposable economy we have now.

[jcjames]

On 11/26/2021 at 5:40 PM, kav said:

Hate to break it to you but your generation consumes far more than ours ever did.  Your pollution footprint eclipses ours with the disposable economy we have now.

Stop shaming me! 

 

[jcjames]