What's your opinion on comic books?

[Sex Alarm]

Do you think this form of media is past its prime?

[Electric Cupcake]

Manga better.

[ṼṏẌṏḭḊ]

They're alright.

[Vendicator Senpai]

Am more into manga. I use to get Spider-Man and Sonic The Hedgehog from my dad when I was a kid though

[vkobe]

digital or paper book ?

paper book pass their prime

but digital is still very popular

[Electric Cupcake]

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Am more into manga. I use to get Spider-Man and Sonic The Hedgehog from my dad when I was a kid though

I will never forgive Sega for abandoning the Freedom Fighter/Mobius-verse.

And I totally don't have a shrine for Princess Sally.

(Nicole Lynx, on the other hand...)

[Adversary]

Comics is, like video games, another niche that is currently ran by people who in prior years would have bullied you - the consumer - for partaking in it. Which is a damn shame, but like with all things it's fixable.

That being said Batman is literal plagiarism and Robin only exists to sell said plagiarism to kids.

[Electric Cupcake]

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That being said Batman is literal plagiarism

Sherlock Holmes, The Scarlet Pimpernel and Zorro (Batman's biggest inspirations) are all in the public domain now.

The Spider and Doc Savage are only partly so, I think.

[talemore]

Yes

[Delta]

I used to read Archie comics all the time as a kid in the 90s. They are awesome.

[Adversary]

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Publicado originalmente por Adversary:

That being said Batman is literal plagiarism

Sherlock Holmes, The Scarlet Pimpernel and Zorro are all in the public domain now.

The Spider and Doc Savage are only partly so, I think.

Bob Kane and Bill Finger quite literally plagiarized The Shadow, tracing it and plagiarizing it cel for cel, word for word. Only reason they stopped having Batman use a gun and adopt his consequence-free oath of not killing psychopaths like Joker and Two-Face was with Robin in the picture DC saw an opportunity to market said slop to kids.

[King of Yugoslavia]

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Am more into manga. I use to get Spider-Man and Sonic The Hedgehog from my dad when I was a kid though

Not all comic books are about superheroes, as not every manga is about a high school harem.
Also, manga and comic books is the same type of media: a stories told mainly via pictures with speech/thought bubbles.

[Fire Angel]

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Do you think this form of media is past its prime?

Yes but that's mainly due to how big companies now higher their new writers and enforce new policies that are quite the opposite of what the Comics Code Authority did. While they're good new comics it's often not worth the hassle of looking into and instead better to read onces from decades ago. I recently read the 80s the New Teen Titans and I relate more to those characters from many moons ago than the current Teen Titans even though I was born way after the 80s.

[- 𝔊𝔢𝔟𝔩𝔬𝔱 -]

I prefer literature; it doesn't rob me of my imagination like the visuals of a comic book does.

[Angel]

Considering that platforms such as Webtoons has a massive audience/customer base and many series hitting Netflix as a series, I'd say comics are popular still.

[HansCent]

I remember hearing someone say that comic books' popularity goes up and down by the decade and at the moment it's currently cooling down.