>reading Supergods
>Morrison thinks a majority of major comic book artists were trying to channel the LSD aesthetic
>yeah sure buddy, projecting much?
>week later reading random spider-man comic I seen posted on here
>pic related
Was Morrison right? Did weed/acid influence a good portion of classic comics?
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DUDE!
DUDE WEED LMAO
bruh pass me that dank shit
That's not even what he's talking about. He means shit like early Doctor Strange or a lot of Gerber's stuff, which was extremely popular with college kids in the 70s who were into that kind of thing.
Why is Petee so mad?
I'm reasonably sure Stan Lee, and creators his age and older didn't write on drugs in the 60's (now when he was parting in the 80's on cocaine, that's another matter).
The 70's though? I think a ton of them where on drugs. Guys like Marv Wolfman, Steve Gerber and Jim Starlin where ex-Hippies.
Getting into weed i realized all adults are degenerates in one way or the other.
Doug Moench more or less admits to it inthe MoKF intros. Starlin did a comic about acid iirc.
Whenever I see any kind of anti drug episode or comic, I wonder how high the guys who made it were.
Because this is immediately post snap
Actually most of the artists do drugs. Lee said he never did drugs in his adult life.
But lot of writers did post 60s.
What?
>The look of absolute disdain and disgust on Peter's face
Damn, son. He's your friend right?
that took me a second.
Your example would be pretty self-defeating considering it was part of storyline requested for the War on Drugs.
I mean they probably where anyway but still.
>Morrison thinks a majority of major comic book artists were trying to channel the LSD aesthetic
I don't think that's actually what he said. It was his description of the silver age in particular where everything speeds up, breaks down, and gets weird and psychedelic.
But yes, however many people you think have used LSD in the past you're probably greatly underestimating the real number. Keep in mind it's one of the very few psychoactive compounds active in the range of micrograms (1/1000 of a gram) and it's not the sort of drug like heroin or cocaine where you start doing it constantly (there are always exceptions, but for most people tripping on LSD every day would be ridiculously excessive), so decades earlier a couple of large LSD labs were able to mass-produce way more doses than anyone in the nation could ever possibly go through and everyone short of maybe Catholic priests or literal autists had some experience with acid.
That's just the general population. For people living at the right time whose livelihood is an artistic pursuit like comic book artists or writers the likelihood they were experimenting with recreational drugs including LSD and cannabis approaches 100%.
Well played, sir.
The second generation Marvel guys (Roy Thomas, Jim Starlin, Danny O'Neill, etc.) never made much of a secret they were indulging on cannabis and psychedelics, a lot of the earlier guys were probably knee-deep into amphetamines and I'll bet a lot of the 70s guys were doing coke and barbiturates.
Obviously this story is famous for that one moment but damn it I love the writing in scenes like these.
This has to be one of the coldest moves Peter's ever pulled but damn if you don't understand why.
This
Gerber and co. were literally doing drugs while writing comics in the 70s. So, fucking DUH!
What's the context?
It's more surprising to find out people who didn't do drugs, like Steve Ditko who was doing trippy as fuck Dr. Strange comics in the 60s but hated hippies and drugs.
This takes place immediately after Gwen's death.
Norman has just murdered Gwen so Peter is off to murder Harry's dad whilst said best friend is coming off a seriously bad trip.
Source:your ass
Morrison doesn't even remotely say that in his book you fucking retard.
>did LSD affect media in the 60's and 70's
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>Marvel Comics was going through an aggressive period of expansion during the early-to-mid 70’s. Editor Roy Thomas hauled in as many free-lancers as he could find to fill pages, many recruited from his fanzine connections. And because there was so much to turn out, the new generation of creators were basically turned loose without supervision to funnel in their own enthusiasms about how to expand comics, resulting in some really weird variations. Quite a few of these guys (like Starlin, Englehart and Brunner) were regular users of mind-altering drugs. Many characters during that era were shown hallucinating or having their realities warped. There was a great deal of conceptual cross-pollination with Undergrounds, and those three creators were part of the new “Ground Level” comics put out by Star*Reach. It was a really interesting time for comics readers.
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Also, go read Marvel Comics: The Untold Story.
Don't be naive.
There was a lot of casual drug use in comics in the 1970's. Read any book on the subject.
Starlin's Warlock is also heavily influenced by the Elric books.
The creator of Gumby took acid, and that influenced his later work.