![]() ![]() In 1998, comic artist Dylan Horrocks drew the definitive account of where comics had been and where it had gone. The problem has been that every artist who uses the word “fuck” thinks they are Alan Moore and that their latest epic is a new Watchmen. The problem is neither the violence nor the sexuality since some of the most violent, and most sexually adventurous, books are also some of the best (think anything written by Ed Brubaker). The major companies still produce primarily tights and capes books, pages splashed with gushing disembowelments and gravity-defying tits. That was great in 1991.Īlmost 20 years later, its unfortunate how little mainstream comics have changed. The post- Watchmen, post- Dark Knight Returns world featured reimagined heroes in gritty, postmodern landscapes. In the late ’80s and early ’90s, friends and random people in comic stores recommended books by a new artist by simply saying, “Its really dark.” It was a phrase that, along with “mature” and “adult”, became our favorite adjectives for the comic stories we loved. ![]()
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