The Dark Age: Grim, Great & Gimmicky Post-Modern Comics - Softcover

Voger, Mark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1893905535 ISBN 13: 9781893905535

Publisher: TwoMorrows Publishing, 2006

Synopsis

• Do you remember The Dark Knight Returns and Watchmen? The "polybagged" premium" craze? The death of Superman? Renegade super-heroes Spawn, Pitt, Bloodshot and Cyberforce? When vigilantes spilled blood by the gallon ― and those were the good guys? Read all about the sometimes glorious, sometimes gory era of comic books known as The Dark Age!

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Comic-book fans are fond of categorizing the field by era. The first decade of superhero comics in the 1940s is called the Golden Age, and the 1960s superhero revival launched the Silver Age. Voger claims that the mid-1980s, when the likes of The Dark Knight Returns (1986) and watchmen (1987) presented tougher, brutal superheroes for a more knowing audience, began the medium's Dark Age. "Grim and gritty" became the byword as other series adopted the same mordant mode. At Marvel, Todd McFarland's Spider-Man and Jim Lee's X-Men darkened the characters. DC actually killed off Robin and even Superman, albeit temporarily. Voger's overview of the period is made up of interviews with writers and artists, plentiful artwork, and examinations of the crass marketing gimmicks that demonstrated a cynicism in the publishers that came out in the stories themselves. The book's fannish approach and loose organization make it more cursory than thorough, yet it offers a fascinating look back at a still-influential era when comics enjoyed a boom in gloom. Gordon Flagg
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Edition details

• Publisher: TwoMorrows Publishing
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1893905535
• ISBN 13: 9781893905535
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 168