Who would you say "won" each era of comics?>Golden AgeMarvel(or Atlas or whatever they were called). Human Torch and Namor being straight up villains in the beginning was better than most of the DC anthology stories which were painfully boring except for Batman and Superman(Sandman was a good concept but he just ended up as discount Batman)>Silver AgeMarvel. Spider-Man, Fantastic Four win alone even if I loved all the wacky sci-fi stuff DC was pumping out. Also the Journey into Mystery and Tales to Astonish anthology stories were probably the first non-superhero comics I'd say were actually good(they started having ironic twists,subversions, etc while Golden age anthologies were all painfully straightforward)>Bronze AgeDefinitely DC cause of Travelling heroes(Green Lantern and Green Arrow) plus Dennis O Neil's Batman run>Dark AgesDC again cause of Watchmen, TDKR, Death of Superman(even tho it technically started the endless death and return cycle today) and Knightfall>Modern ageIndependant publishers like Image, Dark Horse, Dynamite, etc>Whatever the 2010s onward is calledThey all suck lmao
>>150199716Those are hundreds of stories no way you read them all
>>150199745I'd just read a handful of each run that had a popular character(I'd only read the Sandman/Spectre/Hourman/Green Mask parts of Action Comics, Adventure comics, More Fun Comics, Mystery Men comics etc). I've read all the anthology stories of Action Comics up until #6 but gave it up later cause of how boring they were(same with the other runs) and then just read the parts with Superman. Repeat each era
>>150199716>Who would you say "won" each era of comics?The readers that liked it, which is coincidentally an ever-dwindling minority.It's also very retarded to insist we're still in the same meme age as Watchmen 40 years later.
>>150199716>Also the Journey into Mystery and Tales to Astonish anthology stories were probably the first non-superhero comics I'd say were actually good(they started having ironic twists,subversions, etcThey did that because EC Comics and other companies' horror/sci-fi titles during the 50s were basically doing that
>>150199716>Golden AgeCoin toss between EC Comics and Carl Barks' duckcomics. C.C.Beck's Captain Marvel run, Cole's Plastic Man run and Wolverton's work are personal faves of mine.>Silver AgeCoin toss between DC and Marvel. It was fundamentally capeshit at its peak imho.Also Herbie Popnecker and Wood's T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents are great.>Bronze AgeIf we're talking American capeshit exclusively, maybe a coin toss between the Big 2 as well? I liked The Uncanny X-Men, Starlin's cosmic saga, Miller's DD run and Kirby's DC era. But outside of that? Heavy Metal comics. There are some interesting reads here and there in the counterculture comix side of thing - mainly Spain and some of Crumb's work.>Dark AgeCapeshit-wise, definitely DC. Your usual "Babby's First Big Boy GN" titles are published during this time. The British Invasion, Vertigo, the whole 9 yards. You already know. Also, JLI, Ostrander's Suicide Squad and Cates/Weisman's Captain Atom are pretty solid book runs imo. Outside of capeshit, the 80s B&W comic boom brought us alot of nuggets of gold. Alot of things Tundra, Epic and Comico published were great - Rick Veitch's The One and Brat Pack, Bissette's Tyrant, Comico's Jonny Quest. >90s and early 2000sA mixbag between DC and Image imo. Wildstorm and Extreme titles were fun. Alan Moore's ABC titles, Supreme, 1963. Ellis' Planetary is fantastic. Morrisson's JLA, Marvel Boy. Cooke's New Frontier, Millar's Red Son.
>>150201370(cont.)>mid 2000s through early 2010sGenerally speaking, Morrison's Hypercrisis saga (the Bat-Epic, Final Crisis, Multiversity) and All-Star Superman + Johnns' GL run. That was what I was reading at the time. So, DC for sure. Annihilation and Hickman's F4 run were pretty good too. Waid's DD run is a personal favorite. Silver Surfer Requiem.Starlight was the one good Millar independent book.Image's input at the time was mostly just wannabe Hollywood TV pitches in comicbook format, but Dustin Weaver's Paklis was a fun anthology with great art. Brandon Graham's Island was also a fun anthology, feels like a weird 2010s hipster time capsule (I remember when he did an AMA here promoting it lol). Ales Kot is (was?) extremely pretentious, but I found Zero interesting at the time, might reread it again. Fiffe's COPRA for sure.Also, the pre-reboot Flynn's Archie Sonic run was great too, until the Pendering happened.>Mid 2010s onwardEh, kinda grew out of whatever is going on with capecomics now. Some titles of both Absoute and Ultimate line are pretty good, but don't really catch me.I liked Marvel's Grand Design books that the Kayfabe gang did. Rugg's Hulk one was my fav.Speaking of which, Immortal Hulk was good. Morrison's GL run was good too, Sharp's art was phenomenal. Ross's F4 Full Circle was fun. BWS' art in Monsters is monumental.
>>150199716>GoldenI like Jack Cole's work from this era, and his most enduring, Plastic Man, was with Quality Comics. It's really the only stuff I've read so far that still holds up. Eisner's The Spirit as well, but that was a newspaper strip.>SilverMarvel with the Kirby/Ditko one-two.>BronzeMarvel had Steve Gerber and Conan.>80sDC, though everyone was on fire (in a good way) this decade. You also had the rise of Dark Horse and Fantagraphics, you had the Epic imprint going strong and First Comics, Eclipse, and Comico, among others. >90sI liked the indie stuff more this decade.>00sDC had a lot of Morrison hits, and a few quiet Moore titles under America's Best Comics.>10sPretty dead to me from here on out.
>>150199716>Golden AgeCaptain Marvel (Shazam) and Captain America>Silver AgeSuperman and Fantastic Four>Bronze AgeBatman and Spider-Man>Dark AgesX-men and JLA>Modern AgeSpider-Man and Green Lantern
>>150203073All wrong.
