Will comics become popular again or will we forever be in the second dark age?

Will comics become popular again or will we forever be in the second dark age?

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comics are popular, unless you mean Marvel and DC, in which case never, because there's this perception outside of cape comics that the shit's too confusing to get into, what with reboots and relaunches, series cancellations, so many writers handling the same characters, events out the ass, continuity issues, etc.

It's impossible for people who didn't grow up reading them to get into them anymore.

creator-owned comics, manga, and eurocomix are easier to get into because they're generally in the same series created by the same people, and don't have decades of continuity fucking to live up to.

As long as movie and tv shows exist, comics will, for source material

even if comics lose money, it's peanuts in the grand scheme of these mega-corporations, and they might be willing to take the hit in order to maintain an idea farm.

Comics for children are already popular. When you talk about comics being unpopular, you're arbitrarily restricting yourself to manchild comics. You just don't notice because you're a pathetic manchild.

If you're unable to have any children of your own, try looking at your niece or nephew's reading list. If they're in the right age range, then they just might be reading comics.

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>It's impossible for people who didn't grow up reading them to get into them anymore.
That's what Essentials (and now Epics) are for.

What would a modern day amalgam universe look like? Who would be fused with who this time around?

Being infatuated with a medium is dumn AND people who got into comics immediately would like to see well made adaptations such as Sam Kieth's The Maxx or Iron Man.

yeah but then you have to start decades back and work your way through and unless yr a neet piece of shit, nobody has time for that.

Being infatuated with a medium is dumn AND people who got into comics immediately would like to see well made adaptations such as Sam Kieth's The Maxx or Iron Man.

This woman's comics routinely stomp the sales of any cape comic into the ground and piss on the remains. Comics are popular, just not capes.

I can't imagine being such a fucking brainlet that I would ever believe that babby-tier capeshittery is "too complicated for everyone else."

Printed media in general is dying across the board, I'm expecting some kind of major digital push in the next few years with trades being the only way to get physicals.

Not that guy but cape shit continiuty is complicated

>Hurr just pick out one single run, who need to know which character this is or how comprehensive the storyline is

That is the line a brain washed retard would say

Yeah. But I've been saying "next few years" for a while now. Print will fight to the last page. Might take 20 years.

Capes are also incredibly niche to begin with. As a genre, it's very simplistic and formulaic. Very few people want to get invested in a series like that, which is probably why the success of the movies hasn't transferred to the comics.

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Comic pros are churning out garbage IPs in the hopes they will get picked up by the likes of Netflix, and viscously going after anyone who attempts to make good content.

So, no. Not unless we have some kind of renaissance of people who actually want to make good comics.

I can't wait for Ya Boy Zack to put Mark Waide in the fucking ground.

>Will comics become popular again

American comics? It could happen. But probably won't because every single editor that currently exists in the business would have to leave the industry first, and before they retire the medium will be stone dead in US.

(If you count manga as comics it's already plenty popular.)

You can do interesting stuff with capes, but it requires genuinely talented creators being let loose when they have a good idea, and that just fucking doesn't happen anymore.

Manga and graphic novels will replace comics eventually

what the fuck qualifies as 'good' comics? what are you reading?

manga is comics

you know what I mean

they're the exact same fucking thing. Manga is literally the japanese word for comics. Same medium dude. Same form of storytelling.

if you can't tell the difference between comics made in japan and comics made in america then you're a retard or are being willfully obtuse for the sake of having an argument. go away.

The simplicity of the concept is a breeding ground for creativity, which is why the golden/silver age had some of the best cape comics ever published.

However, it's also restrictive. A lot of the traditional tropes of the genre, like secret identities and reoccurring rogues, become obstacles when you try for more complexity.

>which is why the golden/silver age had some of the best cape comics ever published.
is this a joke? those old comics can't hold a candle to what comics became later. you can barely list off 20 worthwhile titles from the 30s-60s

who?

Not until Diamond is dead

When your passion is run by corporate dullards, expect the worst.

Floppies are a huge rip off and a scam pretty much, I wish they would just release trades and hardcovers, the big 2 could actually stand to charge more for them and actually hire some talent. Also there’s a huge problem with general sanitization and blandness because corporate doesn’t want to change status quo and tow the line with fans