Quote Originally Posted by Agent Z View Post
Good video.

But if I am being honest, I think there needs to be a backlash to the backlash to the grimdark era.

Rightly or wrongly, the grim dark era and the deconstruction of superhero genre provided the newest and most defining ideas that the superhero genre had back in the '80s, and nothing since then has succeeded in proportion and reaction to what came before. There has never been an anti-Watchmen as good as Watchmen.

Everyone is shadowboxing Alan Moore because there's never been another writer of the same measure who came in and made the genre his since then. Sure there have been top selling superhero stories and so on. But not much.

I don't think there's anything truly harmful or wrong at taking a politically critical and satirical look at the superhero genre, and to my mind, it would be far worse to see less of it.