| Posted: 12 November 2010 at 9:15am | IP Logged | 5
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The way I see it, there is a general contempt/disregard towards comic books and superheroes coming from seemingly everyone involved in comics today.I find it from the comic producers (Writers/artists/editors), from Hollywood (directors/actors), and worst of all the fans. The fans currently reading comics seem to have a genuine dislike, disdain or I should say, low opinion of the very genre they profess to be "fans" of. They never pass up a chance to run as far away as they can from the genre. Be it their "adult themes", leather outfits, blood and gore (you wouldn't believe the blood in gore in Spider-man comics today), etc. they are doing everything and anything they can to be anything BUT "comic books".
unfortunately, the way many of us think of "classic" 60's and 70's comics is the way we think of the Batman TV show of the 60's. Something we loved and enjoyed but something which is clearly beneath any serious consideration. A guilty pleasure full of stupidity, campiness, and silliness. an embarrassment. that is why so many of us are quick to want to change things when this closeted hobby is to be exposed to the general public. We fear being discovered for the silly, geeky fans we think ourselves to be.
What saddens me is how untrue that thinking is. How "serious" and good, and fun and real comics were back then (I am strickly speaking of Marvel comics. Was not a DC reader).
anyway, it is this thinking which is slowly but surely killing the industry.
Here is what I predict.
Both Captain America and Thor will be BO disappointments (in the same way Hulk, FF, and DD were). They will make money but not enough. Green Lantern will be an outright failure. As a result, the enthusiasm around "superhero movies" will greatly diminish. Now if the Avengers continues along the same line. If Whedon doesn't turn the ship around by making an exciting superhero movie, then the Avengers too will be a failure and the whole superhero movies phenomena will come to an end. Batman may continue and perhaps SM (depending on how they handle the reboot), but no producer will invest in the other characters. the movies will come to an end and Marvel will no longer have anything to supplement its publishing (other than Disney as a whole). anything may come as a result of this crash.
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