What do you think will end the Modern Age of Comics, and what do you think will come next?Personally, I'd break the Modern Age up into at least two eras and not call either of them the "Modern Age". The Dark Age and the Iron Age seem more logical.
>>150153450>Victorian Age (1842–1897)>Platinum Age (1897–1938)>Golden Age (1938–1956)>Silver Age (1956–1970)>Bronze Age (1970–1986)>Dark Age (1986–1991)>Extreme age (1991-1997)>Event (decompressive) age (1997-2011)>Synergy age (2011-2019)>Multiverse fatigue and multiple version of the same hero fatigue age(2020-2027)
>>150153480Because the multiverse or multiple versions of the same character never existed before 2020
>>150153516I put emphasis on "fatigue", before those years 2014-2019 was torelable, before 2013 was cool, but these last years are dreadful.
>>150153450>What do you think will end the Modern Age of ComicsI think it's best we stopped categorizing the post-bronze age as 'modern.'I think the term 'dark age' is a bit better to describe the way comics evolved from the late 80s on to the 2000s.From there on, as much as I don't like to bring up 'woke' or politics at all, I think the early 2010s to early 2020s should be called the "Rainbow Age" or something. Because there was a noticeable, industry-wide change in both who were making comics, how comics were drawn and written, and the addition of a frequent political bent which followed the whole 'comicsgate' thing.Eh, maybe that's really dumb.Though perhaps we should just characterize American comic books by decade. Because 2000s books were quite different from 2010s ones, and now the 2020s have also taken on a distinct number of qualities. >What will come next?I think we are already in the 'Shadow Age' because American comic books are very obscure and infrequently read. They are massively 'shadowed' by manga or other entertainment mediums and are basically dying. It is only out of optimism I choose 'shadow' instead of 'Twilight.'
People actually use the term “modern” unironically? I’ve only ever heard it referred to as dark.Anyways, there should be a little more separation. Doesn’t seem right that 90s-00s grimderp shares an age with the oversanitized, preachy, uwu wholesome Gwenpoole era.
>>150153450There is no possible way that 2025 is the same "Age of Comics" as 1986.
>>150153450I think the Modern Age ended around the time the MCU started (maybe earlier with Raimi Spder-Man or the X-Men films). Now we're in the Media Age.
>>1501534502010s to the current day is the Plastic Age of comics.
>>150153480Horrible.>Dark Age (1986–1991)This is nonsense. This era may be the greatest era in comic book history, and you've slapped on a label reminiscent of one of the worst.>Event (decompressive) age (1997-2011)>Synergy age (2011-2019)More nonsense. These things are still happening.>Multiverse fatigue and multiple version of the same hero fatigue age(2020-2027)This is also nonsense. You're singling out specific gimmicks as if every other burned out gimmick is just fine. No. If you listed all them, you'd have a much longer label.
>>150153480The interesting thing about the synergy age is that it calls attention to how many non-superhero comics are written with an eye to adaptation.Maybe.
>>150153450>break the Modern Age up into at least two erasHol'up, I got a manifesto on this that I've been working on.
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Dark Age - 1986 - 2007. Post Crisis to One More Day.Iron Age - 2008 - 2019. Defined by the MCU and its impact rather than the comics themselves. Iron Man 1 to Endgame.Shadow Age - 2020 to now. Post-covid. Publishers begin moving away from Diamond. Manga and other forms of media overtake comics, a shadow of what they were. Valiant, Dark Horse and possibly Archie Comics in financial trouble.
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>>150153450The modern age needs to be split because current comics are not like the 1986 books. And it doesn't feel like a heroic age we're currently in. In my heart of hearts, the first part is the Adamantium Age and the second is the Vibranium Age but we both know the first age is just Post-Crisis and the second is either Post-Civil War or Post-Ultimates based on what you see as most game changing (and not necessarily in a good way.)
>>150155586The dark age can't last that longer. I would say the Dark age ended with the collapse of Marvel and the rise of the direct market as the only source of distributing comics. Also it kinda aligns with the raise of digital and the cinematic storytelling in comics.I would say the next era should contain the fall of cinematic storytelling and the raise of decompressing with the raise of the walking dead and the MCU.
>>150153450>18 years>17 years>13 years>39 years and going Why would the fourth age be three times as long as the third?
>>150155626I must say, that's some pretty interesting categorization. What would you do for pre-1892 comics? Or earlier forms of sequential art?
>>150153450How are you this fucking stupid?
>>150153480You are even stupider than OP.
>>150155525>>150155556>>150155587>>150155626These are somehow the worst posts in the thread.
>>150153450After the bronze age came the age of heroes when comic creators had the most power, both socially and financially, but Disney buying Marvel, the rise of social media, and the death of webcomics ended it.
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Manga age since the 00s
>>150156752>pre-1892 comicsPre-Gilded Age "comics" for the most part are just an illustration with a caption. They tie more into the history of 18-19th century newspapers and magazines rising in the states. Though Phenakistiscopes were also a thing if you count that.Earlier beyond that, idk, triptychs and hieroglyphics?
>>150155626These notable works aren't notable at all.You have Ultimate Marvel but not Marvel KnightsWhere's Morrison's X-Men? Bendis' USM? Smith/Bendis/Brubaker Daredevil?Morrison's Batman? Morrison's All Star Superman?Lucifer, Fables, Y The Last Man, DMZ?
Ages don't matter and they have always been vague because they only seem to account for superhero comics and there were always exceptions to any rule, broadly:>Before the CCA (Comics Code Authority)>CCA reigning supreme.>CCA waning.>CCA gone.Fits the ages quite well. Or you could just say:>Early superheroes.>Superheroes dominant genre.>Superheroes try new things.>Superheroes IP farm. Or just:>Comics grew as a specific medium.>Superheroes became dominant genre.>New influences.>80/90s apex, bubble, crash.>Comics destroyed as a past time.>Various attempts at recovery.I don't think the modern age has really had as many definitive hits creating a whole new direction like the past did. The late 90s/00s could be a new age for the comics crash and attempt at recovery and then 10s had line refreshes at both the big 2 to make up for falling sales.
>>15015419390s and 00s shouldn't be together. 90s used being edgy as a shallow aesthetic, 00s actually went full edge.
>>150161021Late 90s and 00s definitely feel connected.
>>150153450The end of civilization itself
>>150155774>>150158208Because it is a lazy way to categorize it by someone that clearly don't read comics.
>>1501542812000 with the X-Men film and the Ultimate universe
>>150156752Stardust was your grandpa's Sonichu
>>150162893Not at all. Chris-chans were suffocated at infancy back then.
>>150162276Oh no.
