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Out of Context Comics

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Comic panels taken out of comics so we can make fun of them!! We love the golden age stuff!

Rules:

  1. Comics must come from actual comic books. No AI or Photoshops.

  2. Single panels are preferred.

  3. Comics should be unintentionally funny. Spider-man cracking wise is not what this is about.

  4. Don't be a dick.

  5. I can't believe I've had to add this... NO RACISM.

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Also never ending: DC missing the entire fucking point of Watchmen as they do whatever they can to exploit it.

Folding them into the main DC continuity... dear god. Talk about not understanding a book.

[–] Sergio@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They understand the book. They just understand money a lot more.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I agree that they care just about money and nothing else. But considering the book was a criticism of the comic book industry as a whole and mainstream comics in specific, I don’t think they did understand it.

I feel like most readers don’t understand it.

[–] Sergio@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

ofc they understood it but... it's not like they were just going to shut down DC and Marvel. Instead, a lot of folks went and started independent publishers, many of which do not focus on superheros, and now we have library shelves full of graphic novels in various genres.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

They already were being printed by third party publishers in other genres. They just weren't taken seriously. That was the Black Freighter part.