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Samurai Jack premiered in 2001.

I'd even settle for the guys behind Star Wars Visions: The Ronin & Afro Samurai (even if it means we have to cast SLJ as someone. ;) )

I had to go back 8 years to find his name. :p

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That's interesting, but it's still the basic Disney style with some design elements slapped on it. There was a Generation Fire project on D+ last year that had potential, but I keep going back to...

I'll note that three of the series you named were actually imported anime. And Transformers might as well have been. :)

Anyway, to drag this back on track... every decade or so, the core style of...

It looks like Vengeance is only 9 issues:

VENGEANCE OF THE MOON KNIGHT VOL. 2 Paperback – December 31, 2024
by Jed MacKay (Writer)

Jed Mackay’s widely acclaimed Moon Knight saga continues to...

Well, I started watching anime with Star Blazers in the 1970s, so my metrics are skewed.:D

I sort of agree with you about the goofiness, though. Consider the TMNT franchise in animation:

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Well, I don't know how old you are (I'm in my mid-50s) but I tend to agree about Western animation, although I'd say there were still good cartoons in the 2000s, like JLU and the original Teen...

Well, Doc Samson is busy playing Green Sasquatch, so...

It's not been so much abandoned as kiddified: They are still cranking out Teen Titans Go episodes, and Moon Girl is getting a second season.

Yeah, Al Ewing might. But he'd also try to find a way to fit it in with the existing cosmology as he did in Ultimates & Defenders.

Only if anyone outside of GODS actually acknowledges it. Otherwise, it's like all those Starlin Thanos projects...

Yeah. I also remember when a single issue meant something.

Shockingly, yes. Having "fun" is for (ugh) "popular fiction". Comics are all "literary" now...

Fair point.

Of course, a top seller these days would be mid-range at best when I started reading comics.

I'd argue that the first two (at least, I don't pay attention to the Superman line) have reached a saturation point regarding character stuff. There's only so much torment you can put a character...

There are, in my opinion, two major approaches to writing action stories nowadays. You might call them "plot-dominant" and "character-dominant".

A plot-dominant story is usually fairly...

Nowadays, you are lucky if a storyline finished in 12 issues, a.k.a. "a season".



Because writing for comics is a different beast than writing a novel, but Marvel keeps hiring novelists.

'Sfunny that you knew IMMEDIATELY who he was talking about, when all he said was "a certain mutant", innit?

Technically, there were three of them:

https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Tank

Oh, come on. We all know he's Tito Bohusk...

(I actually have another theory, but I'm not sure if he's a mutant.)

They could have gone full Priest with it, and adapted the first arc, more or less.

And a sizeable percentage are vocal fans of a certain mutant...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQAG0JEb718

People keep bringing up the Dune comparison, but there are three reasons that it doesn't sway me:

1. Comics are not books. It's a different style of storytelling.
2. You don't have to wait N...