It’s Friday, and that means my weekly comics Q&A column is back for another round!
This week, I’m asked if a comic book is good and use that as an excuse to write a few hundred words about why I love Wolverine and my (somewhat arbitrary) pick for the End of the Bronze Age, plus I offer up my pick for the beginning of an era that needs to “_____ Age” tagline: The ’90s.
If you’ve got a question you’d like to see me tackle, put it on Twitter with the hashtag #AskChris, or shoot an email to comicsalliance at gmail.com with “[Ask Chris]” in the subject line!
…some good questions and answers this week. if asked about the 90’s, i’d say it was where art and artists trumped story and writers. jim lee’s art is probably the prettiest around, but he was just as at fault. you made a nice point about cable as the opposite to xavier as a symbol of dumping the past.
i haven’t followed too many Ask Chris columns, but the question about a jumping on point and a recommendation of comics seems to be a regular motif. why don’t you compile a list and continually add one or two classics to it every time someone asks, maybe make it a regular aside to the q&a s.
Great response on Wolverine and on the Claremont / Byrne run. When Joss Whedon did that homage to the end of #132 (in Astounding X-Men, with Kitty instead of Wolverine), I pulled out #132 to compare. It was shocking to me how much better the panel-to-panel storytelling is in the old one. The place feels solid and real, and you can see exactly what the motions in the scene are. It is night and day better than the modern homage — it just feels like a bunch of scattered snapshots with no sense of how to get from one to the next.
I agree with you on the last question.
Leliana and Liara making out is clearly the best answer.
How many ages do comics have, and when we shft into a new one, do we make another name for the previous age? will there be an iron age of comics? a victorian age?
When we reach the Tiffany stained glass age of comics, I’ll be stepping off the bus.
Clearly, the ’90s was the Foil Age. Or the Age of Tiny Non-Functional Crosshatched Feet That Were Covered In Pouches. Either one.