DC Cancels "Superman Family Adventures"!

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I never understood how Archie was even still around. I've never known anyone who read that stuff.

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>I just looked it up. Not for me...I can't get past the art.

That's kind've a shame. "One Punch Man" is the sort of thing I thought folks around here might like. It has a weird, "GoGo Checks" era DC vibe to it. (I could TOTALLY see the original Titans fighting that crab guy.)

>I agree about the IDW stuff. They have been a good company since the get go.

They're an interesting company. Good stuff, but even then there's a tendency to rely on established stuff over original. Sometimes you can split the difference: they brought back Grimjack, which is like bringing back an old character.... except said character is being produced by the folks that created (and own) him. So it's more a continuation of an individual's idea than a licensed character. I think that's part of the problem us oldsters have with the newer stuff; we want stories that are the product of a single will, but we want it for characters that aren't characters so much as properties. By this point our ideas of who a character is are pretty firm, and it's jarring to see a reinterpretation.

>Comic books have never been so diverse. Maybe the heroes of your youth are no longer living up to your expectations but I can promise you there is something out there that will.

THAT'S something I wholeheartedly agree with. I wish.... mostly for their sake.... that folks could loosen up a bit and check out some of the awesome, non-Batman things going on in the comic world these days; but we do get set in our ways. I lucked out 'cos my formative years were spent with all sorts of comics; Archie, Crumb, Corben, Grimjack, Dredd, Golgo 13.... Nowadays I'm open to durned near any style, theme, target audience.... It's particularly heartbreaking for me that the same folks who lament how dark and degenerate comic heroes have become, and wish for more heroic and optomistic stories also tend to be the ones who decry the Japanese stuff so heartily; even though the Japanese heroes tend to exemplarate those exact values. At the very least they should see that as hope for the future.... a future they'd be more content with, as some of the kids who love Naruto and One Piece now will become the cartoonists of tomorrow.... and some of them will end up working for Marvel and/or DC, and will invariably bring those ideals with them.

>I never understood how Archie was even still around. I've never known anyone who read that stuff.

EVER? Even as kids?

Don C.

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I've turned my back on most modern stuff, still follow Hellboy and the Goon tpb style. Been picking up the Marvel Masterworks trades cheap on Amazon and finding more obscure public domain reprints in color like Green Lama and Silver Streak from Dark Horse other random stuff like the Briefer Frankenstein book and the Fletcher Hanks Stardust reprints.

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@Boynightwing...sorry for making you crazy, BUT

If I see a pile of dog vomit on the sidewalk, I don't have to actually EAT it to know it's gonna be nasty.

I've looked desperately to find something that appeals to what I'm looking for...FUN comics that recapture the excitement of what I used to read in the late 70's early 80's. Sorry if that offends you, but that's what I want. For crying out loud, we're on a website DEDICATED to 1970's style toys...why is the retro figure movement taking off? Because that's what we WANT. A reminder of SIMPLER times, and the FUN and innocence that go with it. Captain Actions are FLYING off the TRU shelves because they harken back to the same era...CLASSIC superheroes are CLASSIC for a reason. What's good is good, and that will never change. Look up the new Marvel Universe figures on Ebay. Nobody wants the modern versions of characters, but a classic Vision is selling for $200!
I gave the "New 52" a chance with Swamp Thing. I bought the book for six months straight, and Swamp Thing never even made a single appearance in his own book! It was total garbage and I dumped it.
I'm not interested in Saga, or Danger Club. I want good, READABLE Spider-Man. READABLE Hulk. READABLE Cap. I want my classic superheroes.

Agreed. And to add, there's a REASON why $200 million films cover the vintage material. It's because it's the most successful material. It's no accident these films and subsequent product show up on shelves celebrating the best known and followed eras of these heroes. And while there may be smaller, lesser known, comic titles that carry a quality story, they can't sustain an industry that doesn't know what to do with their mainstream product that pays the bills. If your movies and golden age merchandise are out performing the current day comics they come from, there is an interpretation problem in play.

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>there's a REASON why $200 million films cover the vintage material. It's because it's the most successful material

That; and the execs at the studios are of the age where this is the material they remember fondly from THEIR youth. I think that's why you get stuff that's SORT OF the old story, with the currently popular characters shoehorned in. (The X-Man cartoons and movies are good examples of this.)

A big part of the success of comics from the 80's has to do with the speculators as well; and not the quality of the works themselves. But that becomes the well known stuff, and then source amnesia kicks in and we got movies that are ALMOST the Dark Phoenix saga, or NEARLY the actual origin of the Avengers, or PRETTY CLOSE to Superboy but without the costumes....

Don C.

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