While searching the web I came upon this.... The Continuity Trap | An interesting read for anyone who thinks beyond the usual It's awesome/It sucks type of debate.
I strongly agree overall. However, his narrative about "aging up" comics only works if you start at the Silver Age. Golden Age super hero comics weren't sophisticated material, but they weren't strictly kid stuff either. They were "aged down" before they were "aged up."
the reality trap how very determinist certainly reflective of this pseudorational era they will call it the binary age a great many valves operating with subtle clicks insignificance sans sound sans fury a machine that follows its sequential code and yet who programs the machine because programming is creative generative the blank form acquires meaning ex nihilo, and sometimes from less we shift the palette, evade the pitfall and so it is with art when i sit down with a pencil before a paper i am not a product the zeitgeist is just one palette the paper is blank and i can draw what i want and perhaps i make a comic ant man cable chobits areala warrior nun whatever someone will call it escapism so clever so adult like a child wearing big shoes saying daddys words without the regret the innocent state of a naive critic because escapism is a funny word and reality as they seem to understand it a grown up thing dull not childlike like the burning sun that rises in the morning inspiration for poets (escape) warmth in cold space (escape) this is not reality it is not grown up taxes and bills, wars and plague bullies and injustice you should think about these things they are real your late reports so real so adult your icy obligate attachments oh yes very real dont you stop thinking about them dont you look at the sunrise because you might forget and write a poem and that is escapism so immature because beauty isnt real though if the sun stopped and the beauty went away reality ga nai n da yo but let the critics talk they are children it is cute when they think they know csi yeaaah so silly, nothing like that so dull and routine a lie for the little kid critics because when a detective sits when a programmer sits when a checker punches in when a farmer washes down coffee with a shot of old crow escape the facts are parameters walls define the field the battle is within a raid on the vaults of truth hidden in the packet of evidence a battle in the mind slaying beasts that steal the data a defense of an ideal city against the ranks of chaos and another battle in humankind's old war for food outside it looks dull and quiet but inside a war you could only show with heavy dark ink and gouache alliterative yellow verse kirby and stan lee because without escape into the mind into the possible there are no ideas the most real thing of all but dont admit it dont talk about the war within punch out go home and wear the grownup shoes because escape is not grown up and thats it the end unsatisfying for the critics in daddys grownup shoes poor haunted children the zeitgeist stole their crayons its sad because the next pages are all blank draw your conclusions
Also, I encourage everyone to take a few minutes & actually read through the article instead of just the comics, even if you're not big readers. It'll probably be worth it.
