Adults should grow up and stop watching superhero movies.

[Peach Wookiee]

I truly got into superheroes thanks to Batman: The Animated Series. It's truly excellent.

 

[Gaith]

I'm all for society growing up and getting rid of superhero movies, so long as we do away with professional sports first.

 

[Silvercrest]

^This.

 

[M.A.C.O.]

Me, give up superheroes?
Naw...

This is a large portion of my collection. I have a dozen or so titles lent to friends of mine.

Spoiler

 

[Zaku]

The article appared on the The Telegraph. The English readers have never much liked American superheroes. Usually they find American comic books "childish", while the English ones are really "mature" and intended for "adult readers".

 

[hux]

I once told a group of Dan Brown fans that they were idiots whose existence only encouraged mediocrity in writing. They disagreed and got all weirdly defensive about it for some reason.

 

[Mudd]

Tentpole movies aren't about creative ambition or art, though the folks who labor on them generally bring as much of both to bear as they're permitted (a frustrating pursuit; ask Joss Whedon). These things are junk food for the soul; they go through you like crap through a goose.

I thoroughly enjoy a couple of Quarter Pounders with Cheese a year, but I would never defend Mickey Dee's as cuisine or try to justify it as responsible nutrition.

 

[Forbin]

I think the correct answer to the thread title is, "I don't wanna!"

 

[psCargile]

Gen X adults, maybe to yes.
Millennial adults, no. You guys keep watching.

 

[ITL]

The article appared on the The Telegraph. The English readers have never much liked American superheroes. Usually they find American comic books "childish", while the English ones are really "mature" and intended for "adult readers".

We do?

 

[Zaku]

^ I said "usually"

Raymond Briggs himself said (talking about comics in general):

'On the Continent, graphic novels have been as accepted as films or books for many years, but England has had a snobby attitude towards them. They've always been seen as something just for children,' he said. 'When my Father Christmas was published in 1973, many people didn't consider a strip cartoon to be a real book at all.

'Cartoonists share some of the blame for the fact that their art has not been taken seriously. Too much of it has been superheroes socking people and semi-obscene stuff. But lately there has been much more work with a dignified, serious subject-matter. And as a genre it's increasingly commercially viable.'

 

[Admiral2]

I'm all for society growing up and getting rid of superhero movies, so long as we do away with professional sports first.

You can get rid of professional sports...when you pry them from my cold, dead hands!

 

[Captaindemotion]

With a few exceptions, Ive no interest in biopics, romcoms or sports films but I'd never dream of telling anyone else that they shouldn't watch them.

 

[Set Harth]

It's hip to shit on the superhero film genre these days. I have friends that have been doing it for years now. The author's position is not exactly rebellious. It's just old-fashioned snobbery.

It may not be 2008 anymore, but this is a genre like any other; it will still continue to produce great entries along with poor ones and middle-of-the-road offerings. In terms of overall merit, it shouldn't be reduced to a sound bite. To excoriate the genre as a whole would be to throw out the baby with the bathwater.

Even from a mainstream perspective, superhero films are no longer "the latest thing" that so many glommed onto. They're not the shiny brand new toy anymore. To those who live, culturally speaking, perpetually in the moment, they're yesterday's news and not worthy of serious consideration.

Let the sharks swim on. They do have to keep moving, after all.

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

Meh. The market will decide not some guy with a stick up his rectum.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

My parents watch these, the YA movies, anything with Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren or Nic Cage in them, Tarantino movies, and so on. They just recently started on Daredevil. So I guess maybe I get a pass for now.

 

[Mage]

IMO, I don't trust articles like this to be actual opinions, just people writing stuff that will get other people talking about said author and his/her piece.

 

[Turtletrekker]

Meh. The market will decide not some guy with a stick up his rectum.

Who put the stick up his rectum? Kevin Bacon?

 

[ancient]

Won't someone think of the childrens????

 

[Turtletrekker]

Me, give up superheroes?
Naw...

This is a large portion of my collection. I have a dozen or so titles lent to friends of mine.

Spoiler

Very impressive. In the past year or so, I've collected the two John Byrne Fantastic Four Omnibus (omnibii?), Roger Stern Spider-Man Omnibus, Chris Claremont Uncanny X-Men Omnibus volume 3 and have CC's UXM vol. 1 (3rd printing) and vol 2 (second printing) on pre-order. I wanna get the Claremont/Lee omnibii(?), but I can't find vol 1 for under $175.

In trade paperback, I've collected the complete Roger Stern Avengers (including his WCA mini), Walt Simonson's Thor, Frank Miller's Daredevil (including Born Again and Man Without Fear) Spider-Man: The Alien Costume Saga 1 &2, Sins of the Past and Death of Jean Dewolff (I've had Kraven's Last Hunt for ages) All pof Starlin early cosmic/Thanos stuff , all the way through Infinity Gauntlet (Infinity War and Crusade were just "meh". not gonna waste money.), Captain America "The Death of the Red Skull" and "The Captain" and Iron M<an "Armor Wars".

There's a John Byrne Omnibus coming out that collects a lot of random work, such as his Incredible Hulk, his Wolverine run written by Archie Goodwin, art on Champions, ect; that I am really looking forward to.

I kinda regret getting Miller's DD in trade, when I so much prefer the larger page size of the Omnibus.