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 Post subject: Re: Western Cartoons/Comics
PostPosted: Sat Jun 04, 2011 2:51 pm 
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Don't comic books retcon like hell regardless of whatever event is going on? I mean they don't even seem to have set writers, so their continuity is all over the place.

Depending on the character.
Iron man has changed a ton, but only for relevance to the current times.
The green hornet hasn't changed much since it was a 1930s radio show.

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 Post subject: Re: Western Cartoons/Comics
PostPosted: Sat Jun 04, 2011 2:52 pm 
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Yeah. I like to see superheroes beat the crap out of supervillains, but I don't care about editorial mandates that erase certain things or characters, or overarching events.

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 Post subject: Re: Western Cartoons/Comics
PostPosted: Sat Jun 04, 2011 5:57 pm 
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Uh, I think a few pages back someone said something about non-superhero comics being uninteresting. I didn't think too much of it then because I couldn't think of a non superhero comic to be frank. For some reason I was only thinking of American comics.

However, here in Europe we have a completely different style of comics, without superheroes. They tend to focus on on more or less average people (with maybe one special trait or so) who go on adventures and stuff.


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 Post subject: Re: Western Cartoons/Comics
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Uh, I think a few pages back someone said something about non-superhero comics being uninteresting. I didn't think too much of it then because I couldn't think of a non superhero comic to be frank. For some reason I was only thinking of American comics.

However, here in Europe we have a completely different style of comics, without superheroes. They tend to focus on on more or less average people (with maybe one special trait or so) who go on adventures and stuff.

I love these kinds of heros. Which is why I<3Green Hornet.

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 Post subject: Re: Western Cartoons/Comics
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I just don't like that a lot of american non-superhero comics are either biographical, mopey, or both. For example, one graphic novel called Blankets is a rather emotional affair. One of my favorite graphic novels is Atomic Robo, because it is neither of those.

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 Post subject: Re: Western Cartoons/Comics
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American comics are, as far as I know, only really known outside of the country for the superhero stuff. I go to BD franco-belge for the rest. There's a decent amount translated in English. Thorgal is pretty good adult heroic fantasy.


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 Post subject: Re: Western Cartoons/Comics
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I just don't like that a lot of american non-superhero comics are either biographical, mopey, or both.

Again, the green hornet. Some guy born into cheddar when his dad got killed by the mob when he published a bad article about it. He fought the gangs of the city, not for revenge, but because he was bored and had tons of cash. Found an Asian guy to make weapons, and makes bad jokes and puns that make even the villains shake their heads in shame. Then he uses the newspaper he owns to spin the story to make him look like a hero, despite the fact that he screws up every plan.

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 Post subject: Re: Western Cartoons/Comics
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Are Watchmen and V for Vendetta also classified as superhero comics?


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Syobon wrote:
Are Watchmen and V for Vendetta also classified as superhero comics?

V is kinda a superhero isn't he?

I mean, he's superhuman at least (didn't he have some kind of experiments performed on him?).


Watchmen is about superheroes so I'd say it is a superhero comic.

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IIRC, I think Watchmen was released in comic book intervals before it was novelised.

But I don't really care enough about it to check.

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 Post subject: Re: Western Cartoons/Comics
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DoNotDelete wrote:
Syobon wrote:
Are Watchmen and V for Vendetta also classified as superhero comics?

V is kinda a superhero isn't he?

I mean, he's superhuman at least (didn't he have some kind of experiments performed on him?).


Watchmen is about superheroes so I'd say it is a superhero comic.


Ah okay. I was just asking because I don't know anything about superhero comics (those two are the only American comics I've read so far). They seemed different from more traditional superhero comics so I was wondering if it were a different genre or not. Anyways, thanks for responding.


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PostPosted: Sun Jun 05, 2011 4:10 pm 
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V for Vendetta and Watchmen are by British author Alan Moore - I'm not sure if they would be classified as American. Watchmen, maybe, since it was first published by the American branch of DC comics.

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