From my new interview about Young Avengers over at CBR, which finds me in a pugnacious somewhat wanky mode. (via kierongillen)I think mainstream American Superhero comics lag a little behind other expressions of teenage life in culture, and if you do that, you’re risking writing comics that appeal to the parents of teenagers rather than the teenagers themselves.
In terms of blocks, I suspect a good chunk of it comes out of comics being a visual medium. Text is a great obfuscator of content. You can read a book, and your parents will never know that it contains matter they’d have trouble with, because they’re never actually going to read it. But comics, being visual, are transparent. At a glance, they can judge it — and so often judge it at a glance, without actually reading it.
So you walk a line. I started “Young Avengers” with the scene for a number of reasons, but one of them was certainly seeing if Marvel would let me do it. If I weren’t able to write that, I’d have had to bow out of the gig, because there would be no way of doing anything I thought worth doing.
Marvel didn’t even raise an eyebrow.
I think the biggest blockade to the creation of the content is creators not choosing to create the content.
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Daredevil #26 previews.
may contain spoilers.Publisher: Marvel Comics.
Release Date: Wed, May 22nd, 2013A DOUBLE-SIZED EXTRA-vanagnza celebrating the third-year of the acclaimed series!
• Face to face with his opposite number—a foe Daredevil cannot beat!
• What is his connection to the accident that created Daredevil?
• PLUS: As Foggy deals with his cancer, Matt turns to one of the brightest guys in the galaxy for help.
• Here comes…Iron Man!
I have never needed a shirt this simple (and probably esoteric) this much. Never ever.
H/T to starkexpos for letting me know about this!
#perfect example of how Rhodey talks to Tony #about tough shit #no tip-toeing around #no hand-holding and coddling #fuck that #we’re cracking jokes #and talking directly #and look at Tony #it’s EXACTLY WHAT HE NEEDS TO HEAR #respect #normalcy #being treated like himself #not handled like he’s fragile #do you know how fucking much he would hate that? #he would turn into the biggest asshole in the universe until that pity bullshit stopped #get away from him with that {x}
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Comics, costumes, (semi-intelligible) commentary.
