All these mainstream books are tame like PG-13 stuff maybe soft R at worst like there's usually no drugs, not gore, barely any blood or sex and the costumes are bright and colorful. It's no different from regular superheroes except their little more violent but most of it off screen and they're angry, what the hell are people on about? I could show a little kid a copy of WildC.A.T.S (worst thing in WC is Voodoo a stripper but they don't show shit) or Youngblood. The real edgy books were like the alternative comics like Boneyard Press, Faust or Verotik. How do people look at pages like this and think WOW SO EDGY AND DARK??!
>>150689979The more accurate term is "trashy".
>>150689979Youngblood was edgier, you wouldn't give a kid the issue where they show Chapel shooting himself in a two page spread
>>150689979Because the people who complained were old geezers whose parents thought the Charleston was satanic
>>150689979It's all marketing really. They really wanted to push themselves as EXTREME and not like the other publishers. It of course made a very small percentage of what was actually being printed but that's how sensationalism works.
>>150689979It's "edgier" than the mainstream Marvel and DC books that were all the vast majority of the audience were even aware of. Like >>150690531 is saying, they didn't really need to be THAT extreme, just more extreme than the Big 2 were. They didn't need to hit the levels of "actually extreme" that smaller alternative publishers were doing, because they wanted to be able to sell their books to 13 year olds. It's the same with the entertainment industry in general, you only need to be more extreme than the mainstream stuff people know in order to get noticed, you don't need to go so far as to try and compete with the niche underground stuff normal people don't or won't ever go near.>>150690496Extreme was edgier than Wildstorm, there was another exploding head scene in the first issue of Youngblood, and there were some gore moments in early Supreme and Bloodstrike, but they drew the line at sex and nudity just the same, they did a Youngblood issue where Riptide poses for Not-Playboy but you don't really see anything.
>>150690482This. Certainly some books of that time really went way to far, but the majority were just trying to cash in for what seem to be the craze of the time started with titles like Spawn and events like death of Superman, which was this whole extreme "this is not your fathers [media]!" sort of schlock. As a whole however it was just trashy writing dressed up as "edgy"it didn't really die until the mid 00s when people started to rightfully shat on the concept of everything being taken to it's "extremes".
>>15068997990s were extreme00s were edgy
>>150689979Just check Marvel and Image comcis from that era. Then DC wasn't as edgy but it was but overall, the 90s weren that bad.
>>150689979Because people who weren’t there or were there but read the same 5 books love to parrot what some dumb Internet personality said or some opinion from a forum user they respected.Further, most people don’t understand the words they use so they get used wrong
>>150689979because they were
