rokket opened this issue on Aug 05, 2014 · 85 posts
Cage posted Tue, 05 August 2014 at 1:19 PM
Here's that link I was trying to find, with superheroine redesigns. I cringe when I look at these, because they reject everything characteristic of superhero design. Note that I also cringe when I see designs by Jim Lee (What is his thing for straps everywhere?).
http://www.themarysue.com/fully-clothed-superhero/
Superheroes seem to be in a time of transition. The comics industry, which gave birth to the genre, has been in trouble for some time. The companies which own superhero properties seem increasingly focused on trying to market the characters in other media, to expanded or somewhat different audiences. That inherently involves rejecting a lot of what superheroes have been. But the definition of "superhero" has been muddied within comics for a couple of decades, too. The end of the Silver-Bronze Age era saw a focus on a sort of "variations on a theme" with superheroes. Watchmen, The Dark Knight Returns, the Burton films, then into the Darker-n-Edgier Era of comics. This had to operate against the background of accepted and fairly set definitions of what superheroes were, those definitions having been established during the Silver and Bronze eras. Against that stable background, new ideas about the genre could (often quite compellingly) be explored, but now there's perhaps less of a stable background. Now we have a sort of Superheroes Classic approach, which tries to maintain the core defintions (somewhat nostalgically), with your Alex Rosses and Kurts Busiek. We also get the monthly comics titles continuing the long run of trying to find a new angle on superheroes, accepting and rejecting different portions of the core definition at any given time. (I guess Marvel is doing away with secret identities now. I wonder how much they can remove from the idea of a "superhero" before it ceases to be a unique genre worthy of differentiation from other entertainment genres. :unsure:) And there are the video game and big budget film versions of superheroes. Which of these will most shape the accepted parameters of the genre going forward is an interesting question, to me.
I could keep babbling about this. I will restrain myself. :lol:
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