Golden Age 1938 to 1956 (18 years)

Steel age for the 90's and movie age for the 00's and 10'd

This isn't right, people consider the advent of "widescreen" comics (Wildstorm, Marvel Ultimate) as the current era, so the cutoff would be in the early 2000s.
That being said, that classification is pretty weak and barely works for capes, let alone for american comics as a whole. Where does EC stuff fall? Funny animals? Pre-Action Comics books? Romance stuff? Early self-publishing (Cerberus, Elfquest, the undergrounds, etc.)?

This is only my own personal opinion, but from the 90s-2010s comics felt like they wanted to be "serious", but didn't have much to say. Serious comics in the bronze age seemed to have something to say about the medium or the characters, but the former period just seemed to want to tell gritty stories. That's at least my rationale for why it feels different.

the Crash

Morrison uses Dark Age and Renaissance in Supergods.

Another thing, the distinction between silver and bronze age was barely seen or felt at the time, unlike stuff like Fantastic Four or Watchmen which immediately changed the landscape.
Comics between the 90s and the 10s changed too fucking much for you to cast such a weird problem with them. You're just thinking about the comics you don't like.

it's reasonably accurate for all comics. 1956 saw the introduction of the CCA, and with it the death of most major non-cape publishers. The 70s and early 80s saw the rise of alt comics, graphic novels, and a general re-maturation of the medium. The late 80s into the 90s basically created the environment we see today, indie comics breaking into mainstream popularity and a focus on long-form storytelling aiming for graphic novel sales.

>Where does EC stuff fall?
>Funny animals?
Both in Golden Age

>Pre-Action Comics books?
Platinum Age

>Romance stuff?
Golden Age

>Early self-publishing (Cerberus, Elfquest, the undergrounds, etc.)?
Undergrounds is a bit tough because it's late 60s and 70s. But Cerebus and Elfquest work as Bronze because that Bronze period also covers TMNT's rise that led to the black and white indie boom.

the transition to the Bronze Age is certainly observable from a historical perspective. Although 1970 seems a little early, I guess OP nailed it to Green Lantern/Green Arrow instead of The Night Gwen Stacy Died.

>1956 saw the introduction of the CCA
But the gradual dumbing down of more violent content and subject matters was an ongoing thing that began as early as the forties, with things like the introduction of Robin in 1940 and Batman officially confirming his no-kill policy as early as Batman #4. The CCA basically just officially solidified them.

TMNT was in fucking 1984, Love and Rockets came out 3 years prior, and Cerebus itself came out 5 years before that.

How can it be accurate for all comics if there were fucking comic books predating AC #1. The EC books very clearly already benefit from stuff associated with the silver (and even bronze) age, and their creators go from veterans that were already working in strips to people who would become closely associated with the Silver Age.
Romance comics and the EC New Direction started in the literal same year, how can them be in different eras, funny animals are older than the comic book and straight from the comic strip, why aren't they part of the Platinum Age.
So, it only covers capes?

Ooops sory I fucked up, the New Direction was in 1954, I meant "Bill Gaines run as an EIC and Romance comics started in the same year" (1947)

Dude it's not scientific specificity, and yes it relies heavily on the big two, that's the deal. Chill out.

I'm chill, I just think it would be better for everyone if the history of american comic books and the history of Marvel and DC were treated as different things.
And the main reason why it's not "scientific" is because of that, instead of focusing on what makes these comics similar or different from one another, people focus on "big two landmarks", completely flattening a number of interesting possibilities for what comics have been (and can be) and relegating them to capes.
I'm not even one of Yea Forums's big cape-haters, it's just that this subject in particular is very totalitarian (I know I sound a bit overdramatic but I can't think of a better word) and solidifies this vision of american comics = big two.
If you're american and have access to back bins and more specialized publications, I imagine it can't hurt, but once you're outside of that market and want to learn more about comics, this will be one of the (if not the only) timeline served to you and this will keep prospective readers from not only understanding the medium better, it will severly impair their capacity to look for stuff outside of capes or the big two until they can get their hands on some good intel.
Any medium, specially something marginalized like comics, relies on the public understanding and cherishing it, and few fandoms are worse than the contemporary comic fandom when it comes to this.

this age should be the Digital Age or the Cinematic Age

>Uh that can't be right, surely? Fix this Yea Forums, what are the two new ages and what are they like?
the first half is the Iron Age, not sure what would be the best term for the second half though...

1986-2004
The Modern Age
I think it's fine to still call this 'the Modern Age', it was comics trying to be up to date post-crisis and then also be hip with the kids with edgy 90's art, and then sorta be modern with indie-ish/British invasion trends.

2005-2019
The Event Age

>The Event Age
This. Civil War irrevocably changed the company and new readers.

the event age is stupid. that started in the 90s

>Civil War
you mean Disassembled

I'm laughing but that's only to keep from crying.

Most big 90's events were kept in the book family though (outside of crises) but I guess you're right.

The Decompression Age, maybe?

I like cinematic age because it's when comics become decompressed and stealth movie/TV pitches. Also the age when comic book movies and TV come into prominence.

Golden Age and Silver Age are the only ones that make sense to me. I just say the decade for anything else. The whole point of "Bronze - onwards" is that it was a march away from the CCA, whether that meant Magazines or ditching the CCA for an issue or going direct market.

this

Yes, brother...

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The post speculation bubble didn't burst all at once though, did it? Certainly Death of Superman was a pinnacle of the bubble.

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1986-2001 or so for Dark Age. Painfully obvious what it is - 80s and 90s grimderp, 90s crash, etc.

2001-2011 or so for the 'Modern Age' as comics try to find their newfound footing post-crash and both modernize and try to go back to roots, however much they fail - Ultimate Comics for Marvel and the weird obsession with continuity and silver age becoming grim-n-gritty in DC (Identity Crisis, Final Crisis, etc.).

2011-now is definitely the Synergy Age between the New52, Marvel's diversity gunk, and the utter dominance of the MCU and attempted relevancy of the DCEU in pop culture.

Comics are now part of a post 9-11 new world order. They've become ingrained with the predictive programming media sphere that the CIA and Illuminati shadow government want us to think. Stuff like Watchmen in the 80s prepared us for 9-11. Now they're on a whole new stage in the plant, trying to control our mind among the more fully developed social media. Now the global elites are using comics alongside Netflix shows and.. uh..

Sorry. I was just watching Alex Jones reviewing the Watchmen comic and movie. So um..

Yeah. Silver Age comics sure had some goofy covers, right? Heh.

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There's one happening right this moment. Think about it, what big two writers are popular nowadays and what kind of stories do they write?

These comics eras are pretty nebulous and hard to pin down, since every source differs by a few years. Similar to the "generations" that people talk about like Millennials and Zoomers always being slightly different by source.

Man, watching the review right now, it's honestly pretty disappointing as a guy who kinda likes Alex.

> Pyramid Transnational is, according to Alex Jones, called the "Great Pyramid Corporation".

>Calls the Crimebusters the "Watchmen"

>Ozymandias has a "Superbrain" and is, in fact, "smarter than the god-man, Dr. Manhattan."

>Dr Manhattan is just now discovering his powers

>Alex Jones likes Rorschach and thinks it's globalist conspiracy that he's portrayed as the bad guy for "killing serial killers and child kidnappers" and "fighting the pyramid corporation"

But yeah, mainly the interesting thing is that Alex is just looking at the series wrong. He read it and made the mistake of thinking they WANT the audience to sympathize with Ozymandias. He also makes the mistake of thinking Neil Gaiman and Alan Moore are the same person but I digress.

the only thing unique to this era is the rise of webcomics and digital comics, both products of technology. it's the digital age, in all things

For me the golden age ends in 1954 with the introduction of the code but capeshitters insist in 1956 because that's the year the flash was relaunched and that just shows how cappeshitters have also poisoned the known history of comics.
I do think that maybe the iron age is already over but we won't know when it ended until the current age we're in (the archaic/dark age) is over.

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I want to hear Jones' take on Multiversity now

The Sandman thing bugged me too. He also said Alan Moore was a Freemason. Alan Moore is a conspiracy nut who rants about Freemasons as much as Jones. That was half of From Hell.

>I want to hear Jones' take on Multiversity now
I think these are close:
youtube.com/watch?v=sUIcCyPOA30
youtube.com/watch?v=4io8HBtX9pA
Certainly some Grant Morrison shit going on there.

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>1986 to 2001 (or '06)
Television Era
>2001 to present
Digital Era

Age of Aluminum and Petroleum

Have web comics and online media changed comics that much? Or have they just more drawn people away from comics?

It seemed tons of people had web comics in the 00s. Hell, even I had a couple of web comics back in the 00s. Kinda had a 15 minutes of fame thing going on.

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We Are Now Age Of Bitcoinium

..or what's that new one? Etherium?

And much like them, none of it is real.

“The main thing that I learned about conspiracy theory, is that conspiracy theorists believe in a conspiracy because that is more comforting. The truth of the world is that it is actually chaotic. The truth is that it is not The Iluminati, or The Jewish Banking Conspiracy, or the Gray Alien Theory.
The truth is far more frightening - Nobody is in control.
The world is rudderless.”
-Alan Moore

bitcoin and etherium do not exist and are fucking scams for fucking losers, massive wastes of power

>Synergy Age

Better than Capeshit Age

>modern age
No it's
>Dark Age 1986 to 1998 (12 years)
>Modern Age 1998- (21 years)
I have a Paul Levitz book that says so.

either way, fuck the rich

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True. It's just that while the tinfoilhats think there is some malevolent hand guiding everything for some greater purpose, it's in fact just a bunch of clueless plutocrats hoarding power and wealth for their own personal benefit, taking advantages of the holes in the system.

I'd almost prefer to burn if it meant a more enlightened future for the mankind, eventually, over burning just because of an illusionary dickwaving contest.

You're a wise guy.

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Do you think moot ever cashed in all that buttcoin that Yea Forums got back when they accepted it for gold memberships ?

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I haven't read it in ages. How dated do you think this is now? I thought a bunch of the ideas were dated even when it came out.

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