Anyone currently reading comics?

[bigstinkie]

Look the 90's could be goofy slop, but the slop never looked better than The Darkness!

were the 90s considered a bad time for comic books in regard to their quality?

 

[Octopus]

a second-hand tablet that's about the same dimensions as a standard magazine has been a real revelation there.

You know, I never thought of that somehow...

You are 100% correct, that's the clown in question. I guess he was that dimensions Daredevil, down to genetic similarity? (Not sure why being the same person would make him undetectable to radar sense, though!)

Shhh, don't question it. I guess the same logic as why Venom was immune to Peter's Spider-Sense? Who knows.

were the 90s considered a bad time for comic books in regard to their quality?

Its usually called the 'dark ages' by most comic people. A lot of stuff changed essentially, both in the business and in pop culture and those definitely influenced the art and aesthetic. It was the rise of 'edge' and thigh pouches, and characters with huge guns and bad anatomy since that's what the kids were getting into. That stuff is mostly subjective to be fair, I didn't mind the 90s that much personally in terms of style, but the business itself also really changed due to historically low sales across the board leading into the 90s which made publishers generally chase trends rather than go with cool ideas or established norms; every character became a Cable or a Spawn because of this, and the big usual publishers got pretty one-note and derivative.

The 90s was also the critical mass of the speculator market, with holographic covers and variants becoming the norm to drive sales in the short term only to hurt the industry long term. People bought them up, but they didn't actually go up in value like older comics did. Comics from back in the day were valuable only because there were so few surviving copies available. A foil variant of Sensational Spider-Man wasn't valuable just because it had a cool cover when there was thousands of copies of it on the shelves also getting bought by other collectors, crowding the market. Spider-Man 121 (the death of Gwen Stacy just as an example) was valuable just because they were very rare, basically, and this whole speculator market hit it's mass in the 90s and killed the industry sales and business side for a pretty long time and led to a historic crash.

 

[Kamako]

Like I'm sure others have probably posted in here, I've been keeping up with D.C's new releases via Alex Jaffe's weekly D.C Action News podcast. Gives me a breezy 10 min rundown of what's been poppin'