I have question for you pros and core fans, how did Watchmen and Dark Knight Returns start the Dark Age? I know the Comedian and rorschach are cool but still, I don't know how they contributed to the madness of the nineties Dark Age.
You know how in the beginning of the movie age, everything was dumb and silly? And then in came Citizen Kane, and actually made a good and complex, long story that made people take movies seriously, as an art? Well, Watchmen and Dark Knight Returns did that for comics, in a way. But like in movies, soon, everyone was a fan of dark broody x-treme violence and loads of crap which teenagers seemed to be quite fond of. Nowadays, stuff's beginning to pick up, since the 00's. Few heroes remained untouched by the sheer x-treme grimdark crappiness of 90's culture. Luckily, stuff's began to pick up since the 00's.
...in other news, let's take a look at comics today...
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF THEY'RE NOT GETTING BACK TOGETHER EVEN IF MEPHISTO'S DEAL IS REVEALED
CPR DOESN'T WORK LIKE THAT
...AND IT TURNS OUT THEY WERE TOGETHER ALL ALONG UNTIL RECENTLY, JUST NOT MARRIED.
...THEN WHY GET RID OF THE MARRIAGE IN THE FIRST PLACE, YOU [tornado fang]
QUESADA, YOU [tornado fang]. I AM GOING TO KILL YOU.
...oh my God. I think Quesada's trying to enrage every single comic book fan in existance by copy-pasting his idea of a perfect life into comics.