Science Fiction inside the Star Trek universe
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All of which I covered in my post.Actually, yes. It's in the supplemental material seen at the end of each issue for further worldbuilding. The autobiography of Nite Owl, "Under the Hood", explains it in issue 1. The golden age of superheroes did exist, and its later decline existed as well. In the real world, superheroes returned in the Silver Age (with DC making new and updated versions of their old superheroes, and Marvel Comics introducing the Fantastic Four, Spider-Man, and all their new characters), and stayed being published from then on. In the world of Watchmen, with superheroes being an actual thing the Silver Age never got started, and the comic book industry stayed focused on other genres, such as pirates. Here's a reference to it, there are others at other points.
Exactly. I assume the system didn't tell him how closely his name resembles another, simply because to the system, the names aren't close at all (different capitalization and spacing, plus one different character/space).
9/11 changed North American culture in so many ways, even to the way some people react at a gut level to some situations or seeing the Twin Towers in old movies or TV series.
There's a reference to the World Trade Center in an old video of a Rockapella concert, in their "Zombie Jamboree" number (the song is set in Manhattan). Nowadays people watching that video have an unsettled reaction at the mention and have said so in the comments. Of course the singing group couldn't have known what was going to happen; this concert was performed and recorded prior to 9/11.
I think people do not realise how much an impact Augments would have- the genetic ‘superman’ arrived and took over 1/4 of the world, most of them not as ‘nice’ as Khan. This would have a huge pop culture impact, and combine this with the comics bubble popping.
With Marvel in serious financial trouble in the 90’s I could see them simply going bankrupt, and someone buying the remains from Peralman and sitting on it until ‘the market changes’.
DC would drop a lot of books, and might continue with superhero stuff like Batman, but I could see the plots of whatever survived being much more ‘sensible’ now that ‘mad science’ has literally dominated real countries. I doubt Superman is punched Khan in the face since the real man has nukes.
Dark Horse I could see making it with IP comics, but not the more bleak stuff like Terminator.
Image folds. It was always an unstable pack of cards with late books- with a huge instability in the world it might not have even formed in 92.
Would Marvel and more 4-colour books return? Probably. There is a gap between 96 and the 2020’s we know little about, but say Paramout has Marvel I could see them reviving the brand and books in 2000-ish.
Except we know the Western worlds economy crashes badly into the 2020’s with the Sanctuary Districts, restricted Interweb etc. Even with the Bell Riots there is a small amount of time before the world slips into WW3. Some comics might get published over that desperate period, but I suspect it’s not many, and mostly old favourites like Batman, Spider-Man having street level adventures or maybe Superman space adventures to bring some escapism in.
WW3 in all its destructive glory would be the end for comics imho. Most governments gone, nuclear horror- the funny book does not survive that. Most archives would be lost.
Maybe post reconstruction in the 2100’s someone tries to revive comic strips, and thus the comic book but it’s likely to be electronic and possibly treated as a rare art form for particular tales than cheaply distributed pulp adventures; particularly since real people are having regular space adventures all the time now.
With Marvel in serious financial trouble in the 90’s I could see them simply going bankrupt, and someone buying the remains from Peralman and sitting on it until ‘the market changes’.
DC would drop a lot of books, and might continue with superhero stuff like Batman, but I could see the plots of whatever survived being much more ‘sensible’ now that ‘mad science’ has literally dominated real countries. I doubt Superman is punched Khan in the face since the real man has nukes.
Dark Horse I could see making it with IP comics, but not the more bleak stuff like Terminator.
Image folds. It was always an unstable pack of cards with late books- with a huge instability in the world it might not have even formed in 92.
Would Marvel and more 4-colour books return? Probably. There is a gap between 96 and the 2020’s we know little about, but say Paramout has Marvel I could see them reviving the brand and books in 2000-ish.
Except we know the Western worlds economy crashes badly into the 2020’s with the Sanctuary Districts, restricted Interweb etc. Even with the Bell Riots there is a small amount of time before the world slips into WW3. Some comics might get published over that desperate period, but I suspect it’s not many, and mostly old favourites like Batman, Spider-Man having street level adventures or maybe Superman space adventures to bring some escapism in.
WW3 in all its destructive glory would be the end for comics imho. Most governments gone, nuclear horror- the funny book does not survive that. Most archives would be lost.
Maybe post reconstruction in the 2100’s someone tries to revive comic strips, and thus the comic book but it’s likely to be electronic and possibly treated as a rare art form for particular tales than cheaply distributed pulp adventures; particularly since real people are having regular space adventures all the time now.
Nope, sorry. Can’t get on board with that at all, so I’ll butt out of this one.
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