DC Cinematic Universe ( The James Gunn era)

[TREK_GOD_1]

That's not what Rogue One addresses at all. The Exhaust port never comes up. Erso put a flaw in the reactor, so a small explosion at the reactor would cause a chain reaction. He never addresses how to set of the explosion there. The plans are needed to show the rebels exactly where in the base the reactor is. How they decide to blow it up is solely in Episode 4. A rebel commando strike force could have done it from the inside, theoretically.

This.

A lot of former Marvel talent jumped ship to DC in the 1980s too, and that had a big effect on the way DC characters were written in that period.

DC already changed the way many of its characters were written in the late 1960s and into the following decade (shedding Silver Age buffoonery, much to the delight of readers and creatives alike) with O'Neil, Robbins, Jack Miller, Drake, Fleisher, Carley, et al., evolving many DC superheroes with characterization just as mature as anything at Marvel of the same period.

 

[Mudd]

IOW, on a thirteen-year-old level.

 

[TREK_GOD_1]

College age readers demanding maturity in the comics they read were--quite obviously--not thirteen year olds, nor did they somehow con themselves into wanting kiddie material.

 

[The Realist]

Somewhat childish pleasures do not need to be dressed up as something more than they are to be enjoyed as an adult. It’s what “Shore Leave”’s Caretaker called “the simplicity of play.”

 

[JD]

I don't mind getting away from some of the dumbest elements of the Silver Age, but I do think for a while they went to far in the other direction and went way to serious and dark.

 

[Awesome Possum]

I do like what little we've seen of the DCU. All these silly characters exist but there is a sincerity to it, even a Nazi killing robot has an emotional weight to his story.

 

[theenglish]

I don't mind getting away from some of the dumbest elements of the Silver Age, but I do think for a while they went to far in the other direction and went way to serious and dark.

Are you talking about the late eighties and nineties? Early oughts?

 

[JD]

Mainly the late '80s and '90s, the '00s was when they started backing away from some of the really extreme "dark and gritty" stuff.

 

[theenglish]

Mainly the late '80s and '90s, the '00s was when they started backing away from some of the really extreme "dark and gritty" stuff.

That makes sense. I didn't by comics from 1987 until Infinite Crisis. I remember being shocked by some of the graphic violence that was prevalent in those books at first. Even in the books immediately afterward. There was one panel where Red Tornado in a human body had his arm ripped off--and some of the fight scenes with Superboy Prime in IC that really stood out for me, as did Blue Beetles death scene. I also read Identity Crisis around that time, which left me with a bad taste in my mouth. Thankfully it did taper off after that.

I don't mind graphic violence in its place, such as books like The Walking Dead--but I don't really enjoy it in my Superhero comics.