Is it time to amp up sex/violence in comicbooks like batman.daredevil,etc?!


Question: since most of comicbook readers nowadays are adults, is it time to amp up sex and violence in our mainstream american comics? like batman or daredevil dealing with lets say pedophilia with the mad hatter or cannibalism with killer croc. or rape/murder/mutilation with any of their sicko rogues. of course gruesome, gritty art should be included. i know this might be too much. but i'm not talking about all the time, every month.


Answers: since most of comicbook readers nowadays are adults, is it time to amp up sex and violence in our mainstream american comics? like batman or daredevil dealing with lets say pedophilia with the mad hatter or cannibalism with killer croc. or rape/murder/mutilation with any of their sicko rogues. of course gruesome, gritty art should be included. i know this might be too much. but i'm not talking about all the time, every month.

Absolutely not. I was reading comics when the Comics Code fell apart, and frankly was put off by some things, like the stories of Michael Fleischer (whose name, a friend pointed out, means "Butcher"). While people talked about the sex and drugs in the Undergrounds what made them interesting was the diverse points of view: Victor Moscoso, an art teacher and Robert Williams did surreal images which evolved from panel to panel. Spain Rodriguez did Trashman of the Sixth International which, if it wasn't for its Trotskyism could almost have been a mainstream comic book. Crumb and Shelton, minus the sex and drugs, were doing more traditional cartooning than was appearing in the mainstream books (Basil Wolverton's Powerhouse Pepper being a classic example).

Amping up the sex and violence is one reason most comicbook readers are adults. Kids might be used to it but that doesn't always mean they find it attractive. The great thing about both Golden Age and Silver Age comics was the DRAMA, which is something I don't see in comics that much these days because the writers are so into soap opera and TOO OFTEN UNMOTIVATED violence. Golden Age stories were much shorter, and you will find Spirit stories by Eisner, which in eight pages are full of emotion and excitement, but are not violent: they are about suspense. P'Gell, speaking as someone who grew up in the Sexual Revolution twenty years later, remains an incredibly sexy woman who understood exactly what she was about.

It's way past time that Marvel and DC said, once and for all, "A foolish consistency is the bane of simple minds" and dumped all their complex continuities instead of transitioning them, so they can amp up the quality of their books.

i wouldn't go as far as that but even kids these days see more violence on tv, so whats a little more violence in comic books?

most comic books alredy do

what about the comic code



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