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Post by tonebone on Aug 20, 2021 15:27:12 GMT -5
I am curious, if you did a poll of LEAST favorite decade, would everyone on this forum choose this one? I would.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Aug 20, 2021 16:24:04 GMT -5
I am curious, if you did a poll of LEAST favorite decade, would everyone on this forum choose this one? I would. This one being the 2020s? I would bet the farm that there would be nothing this forum could vote on that would be unanimous.
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Post by badwolf on Aug 20, 2021 17:28:31 GMT -5
I'm pretty fuzzy on the comic "scene" this century but yeah, most likely this one or the last.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Aug 20, 2021 17:33:35 GMT -5
I am curious, if you did a poll of LEAST favorite decade, would everyone on this forum choose this one? I would. This one being the 2020s? I would bet the farm that there would be nothing this forum could vote on that would be unanimous. Though I can absolutely say that I would not choose the 2010s and likely not the 2020s even with less than two years (one truncated) to choose from.
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Post by The Cheat on Aug 21, 2021 13:00:41 GMT -5
Not enough of the 2020s has passed really, and there was some decent stuff in the early 2010s. 2015-2020 would definitely be my least favourite "half-decade" for Marvel & DC by quite a distance, and the way things are going I fully expect 2015-2025 to be my worst decade.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Aug 21, 2021 16:00:14 GMT -5
Not enough of the 2020s has passed really, and there was some decent stuff in the early 2010s. 2015-2020 would definitely be my least favourite "half-decade" for Marvel & DC by quite a distance, and the way things are going I fully expect 2015-2025 to be my worst decade. Marvel & DC are far from all of comics.
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Post by tonebone on Aug 23, 2021 9:11:22 GMT -5
Not enough of the 2020s has passed really, and there was some decent stuff in the early 2010s. 2015-2020 would definitely be my least favourite "half-decade" for Marvel & DC by quite a distance, and the way things are going I fully expect 2015-2025 to be my worst decade. I guess I was thinking the past decade, literally, from 2011-2021. It was somewhat of a joke, but also, I feel like it's true.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Aug 23, 2021 9:14:17 GMT -5
Not enough of the 2020s has passed really, and there was some decent stuff in the early 2010s. 2015-2020 would definitely be my least favourite "half-decade" for Marvel & DC by quite a distance, and the way things are going I fully expect 2015-2025 to be my worst decade. I guess I was thinking the past decade, literally, from 2011-2021. It was somewhat of a joke, but also, I feel like it's true. Tons of great stuff in that time period.
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Post by brutalis on Aug 23, 2021 9:40:36 GMT -5
BUT...the question isn't about how much good stuff can be found or how much bad stuff there is. It is "favorite" which is all about personal feelings and delights or memories and recollections which gave that decade special significance to YOU as an individual buying, collecting and reading. I personally have a fondness for the 70's as it was when I began reading, buying and building lo ding my collection. It was a time when you found comic books EVERYWHERE and not just at a few LCS or online. You had to physically seek them out, giving a more important place in your thoughts than having a pull box or a click of a button to get them. It was a thrill entering ANY shop where you found comics. A small table in a used bookstore, the spinner rack at all of the convenience stores or magazine racks in grocery stores or thrift stores. NOT ever knowing what you might find versus seeing the same issues every week made for thrills and fun. Like being on safari, but for wild comics! THAT made the 70's my choice.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2021 10:25:33 GMT -5
BUT...the question isn't about how much good stuff can be found or how much bad stuff there is. It is "favorite" which is all about personal feelings and delights or memories and recollections which gave that decade special significance to YOU as an individual buying, collecting and reading. I personally have a fondness for the 70's as it was when I began reading, buying and building lo ding my collection. It was a time when you found comic books EVERYWHERE and not just at a few LCS or online. You had to physically seek them out, giving a more important place in your thoughts than having a pull box or a click of a button to get them. It was a thrill entering ANY shop where you found comics. A small table in a used bookstore, the spinner rack at all of the convenience stores or magazine racks in grocery stores or thrift stores. NOT ever knowing what you might find versus seeing the same issues every week made for thrills and fun. Like being on safari, but for wild comics! THAT made the 70's my choice. As a buyer/reader then, this is my favorite decade because while I liked comics from the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s etc. I was never in a position to actually buy most of them as they were coming out, either because of growing up poor, not being able to get to places that sold comics, having too many other real life responsibilities to spend the kind of time/money on comics I wanted to, not having access to comics that I missed when they were released, etc. When you take the focus away from the content and add in those personal factors into it, it changes the equation. There were great comics in the 70s (which would get consideration based on content alone for me) but I was a kid, we were working poor, and if I got 2-3 comics in a month they were released it was a lot, so I didn't get to see or read many of the great 70s comics in the 70s. I experienced some in the 80s when I first started collecting and buying back issues of stuff I missed, but again, I was a high school kid working a minimum wage job ($3.37 at the time) so what I could get in terms of new 80s comics and older back issues was limited to what I could afford and what I could find in the one or two comic shops I had access to, so I still missed a lot of the good comics that came out in the 80s. The 90s were a mess. Finished undergrad, working my way through grad school, in debt up to my ears, so again ability to access the good stuff coming out or getting the older stuff (good or bad) I was interested in was extremely limited. 2000s was a decade of transition for me, I ended up selling off most of my Silver Age Marvel collection I had built to finance moving halfway across the country, my wedding, and eliminating a lot of that debt built up in college and grad school. I was also freelancing in the rpg industry for a few years of it, so my hobby focus and time was elsewhere and I didn't even buy comics for most of the last half of that decade, so missed what was coming out good or bad. The last decade things have settled down and stabilized, I have time and money to spend on comics, and the access to whatever comics I am interested in good or bad is incredible, not only in terms of finding back issues proper, but availability in collected editions or digitally. So if you take actual content out of the equation and rest it on my feelings about comics in the decade, how could any decade but the current one be my favorite? Every decade prior to this one was defined more by the comics I didn't or couldn't read for whatever reason regardless of what was between the covers. So asking what my favorite decade is as a comic reader is a very different question than what is my favorite decade of comic content. But even sticking to content only, the past decade has produced some amazing stuff (most of it not super-hero related) that will remain in my comic library for as long as I live at a level on par with every other decade under consideration, so it would in no way shape or form get my vote for least favorite decade either. I haven't answered the poll, as my earlier inquiries about the nature of the question indicated the OP wanted a response based on only the new content (not reprints) released during that decade, and from my view, there's a lot of great material put out every decade and no one decade to me stands out as having produced more great material than the others if you look at comics as a whole and not just the super-hero genre. If you limit it to super-heroes, it becomes an easier answer, but for me super-heroes are just a fraction of what comics are about so I'm not going to go that route. If forced to pick a single decade based on content only though, I'd lean towards the 1930s where you had both Superman and Batman debuting, the first Marvel Comics issues with Sub-Mariner and Human Torch, the height of Raymond's Flash Gordon, Canniff's Terry and the Pirates, Gould's Dick Tracy, Segar's Popeye, Krazy Kat, Little Orphan Annie, Herge's Tintin, Buck Rogers, The Phantom, Lil Abner, Gottfredson's Mickey Mouse, the introduction of Huey, Dewy and Louie in the Donald Duck strip, etc. a decade with so much creativity, quality content, and fantastic storytelling. I'm sure there was a bunch of drek as well, but the drek hasn't survived into the public consciousness and there wasn't an established industry in place that was just putting out anything to meet a deadline yet, so more of the good stuff has survived the test of time in the public consciousness. But again, I wasn't alive in the 30s to experience the stuff as it came out, so I've refrained from voting. -M
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Post by kirby101 on Aug 23, 2021 10:26:09 GMT -5
brutalis, it is like you have looked into my soul.
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