remember when comics were based? yeah me neither >t born backward looking
anyways this is what american comics naturally turned into until the genre was censored out of existence. If you've never seen EC's horrors comics before you're probably in for a shock because the art is, except for the covers, very plain and realistic and the panels are INCREDIBLY text heavy. Freaking Vault of Horror (another EC comic) is so text heavy at times you forget its a comic. Also all the EC stories are pretty heavily moralizing: bad guys do bad stuff and meet bad ends. Unjust things happen but revenge is usually pretty brutal and well deserved. I went into the EC archives expecting a bunch of taboo stuff and was really surprised by how reserved and cerebral it was--and then just angry that sort of comic had been slandered out of the public sphere.
good thing we god rid of all this trash in time for spidergirl's animu buttocks. I shudder to think how things would be without decades of censorship protecting us from this sort of degeneracy. Anyways, lets remind ourselves of the bullet we dodged and take a look at all this buttless, highly offensive, amoral trash with absolutely no strong female role models. Really just full of toxic masculinity, sad.
nobody likes me because I remind them of things they'd rather not think about for example, how they bought a bunch of vegetables but the vast majority of them went rotten in the crisper before they were used
people hate the truth, but I'm going to tell them anyways because wasting food is a sin.
as far as sins go there's taking a nerd's nostalgia for granted, wasting food, cracking witticisms that aren't funny, being an internet moderator, posting on twitter, owning a mini cooper, not watching any sports, using cheat codes on "the sims" ...
>being an internet moderator, this is probably the worst sin
Ayden Martinez
watching youtube, saying that mock duck tastes better than real duck, talking about cooking too much in the company of people who aren't interested in knowing all the spices
I honestly do wonder what the comics industry would have become had capeshit and horror switched places. For one, I bet DC would still be on top because no one else had any capes that could stand the test of time as well as batman and superman. Timely would have likely fizzled out by the late 50's as they churned out monster mags meaning no marvel comics rebirth. EC would have probably have taken Marvel's spot based on their numbers prior to the comics code.
James Taylor
>if you want to make REAL curry you need to get some Asafoetida >you can get at asian groceries >its also called HING GAHHHHHHHHHHH
we would have comics similar to the ones in europe
Jaxson Lopez
marvel took EC's spot back. the fantastic 4 are often cited as being heroes without capes or masks but they're also all crypto horror characters >man on fire >ghost girl >the THING >melty man all the other silver age heroes are monsters too spider man is bitten by a radioactive spider, iron man is trapped in a robot/man with iron heart, the hulk is the hulk, ghost rider is a flaming skeleton etc.. etc...
well, X-Men are mutants, and marvel also had successful Dracula run. And Conan was a high seller, so...
Robert King
yeah and house of mystery from DC gave us swamp thing... and is indirectly what gave us the vertigo imprint horror comics are literally the backbone of high quality Yea Forums every good comic has horror elements, very few good comics have no horror aspects.
and yet there are idiots on Yea Forums who say that "horror in comics cannot work lmao, how can the comics be even scary double lmao"
Joseph Wilson
love that little change to monocrhome in the panel above. not only hightens the mood but calls back to the drawing at the beginning of the story.
you know they complain about how anthologies like these were easier to write but I usually find the writing to be better than serials which always have to worry about keeping up with the years of BS or having to deal with the consequences of not being versed in their BS. Its really amazing to me that anthologies haven't made a comeback for sake of sheer practicality.
Who wants to reboot franchises over and over again to death just to have to try and keep continuity. Literally madness.
One thing that should be said loudly is that a lot of these comics (including EC) had a lot of rewrites from novels, pulp and so on, because otherwise they wouldn't be capable of coming up with so many stories every month, so it's also another side of the mirror
I wish I could marathon more of these per night but I'll have to stick just to just the one. Its already 2:30 am and I have to /responsibility/ don't post in too many shill threads anons be back soon for another exciting grumpy story time
you'd think there would be some sort of stable market for western comics about dating given how its an obsession of web comics and and shippers seems weird it has to exist only as fan fics for non romance genre Yea Forums and lazy, doomed web comics
