A thought for all the comic writers, artists, and editors out there.

[brettc1]

Here is a thought for the comic creative teams out there that just occured to me.

Writers today seem to feel they need to write the real word with super-heroes in it. In that world thousands die in alien invasions, villains kill wholesale, and the heroes start to resemble more and more their opposite numbers just to keep the body count down. So maybe the writers need to ask themselves - would you want to live or for you children to live in the world that you are presenting in our comicbooks?

And if the answer is 'no', ask yourself what then is the appeal for others to read them?

[Kingsmythe]

That's very well said, brett. One of the reasons I get very little of the DCNU is the ongoing body count and overall dark tone of so many of the books.

[Karen El]

When Alan Moore wrote Watchmen, it was to show that you could tell different stories with superheroes, and weren't limited to a particular, narrowly defined type of narrative. It worked so well that since then everyone has been trying to do exactly the same thing.

It's amazing how something so pivotal in the history of the medium and so artistically and financially successful could also be such a colossal failure in getting across its point.

[Benel Germosen]

When Alan Moore wrote Watchmen, it was to show that you could tell different stories with superheroes, and weren't limited to a particular, narrowly defined type of narrative. It worked so well that since then everyone has been trying to do exactly the same thing.

It's amazing how something so pivotal in the history of the medium and so artistically and financially successful could also be such a colossal failure in getting across its point.

Is it really amazing when superhero comics miss the point? That's always been historically a part of superhero comic.