Dark Age/Modern Age Controversy: The Dark Age Of Comic Books

Five years ago those same sources declared the Dark Ages over. So either they've changed their tune. Their trying for retroactive history, or different people in their organizations have different ideas. No clue. Just staying that it's not consensus that it's one and the same as the Modern Age.

What you mean Wikipedia Marvel and Comic Book Buyer's, that article dint exist five years ago, and you say you have scans of them saying otherwise.

Also your point confuses me; you say sources are inaccurate because sources change? That makes no sense, that logic invalidates the very concept of sources; and in any case then sources dont matter we'd go to common sense which would mean a logical analysis. I’m confused about what you’re getting at.

Not the wikipedia page. I have physical copies of books on comics that say different things than the page itself. Some of them are titled comic book buyers guides.

Names, I've really just taking shots in the dark here without more info.

edited 21st Apr '11 3:56:30 PM by JusticeMan

Umm, why is clicking the link to The Dark Age Of Comic Books at the top of the page taking me to the Home Page instead?

Because there are %20 being used in place of spaces.

I'll holler a mod to fix it.

Hmm... looking over this entire thread...

I'd have to say I think of The Dark Age Of Comic Books as a bit of an anomalous point; the point of the thread apparently being not when it starts and ends, but whether it exists. Does it exist? I think so. However, was it truly important? That's not really my call.

Created The Iron Age Of Comic Books to offer an alternate look at the history without replacing the content we already have posted.

Wow, that... Actually was a pretty good idea I had no idea of, good job.

The writeup overall is decent, but grammatically it's hamstrung by a lot of awkward run-on sentences that makes it a bit of a pain to parse.

Is there anything more that needs to be done on this?

Yeah the Iron Age page is just a c/p of the Dark an Modern; which isn't what it is at all, to quote:

Yes, but they fail to cover the scholarly merging of both periods that is favored by some comic book analysis that is represented here as an alternate. Also, its not less detailed, its emphasizing different things to support the thesis more clearly. That thesis being "The Iron Age is defined by Retcons, Alternate Universes, Crisis Crossovers, and Reboots" wherein the thesis of Dark Age was "Darkier and Edgier meets Dork Age" and the thesis of Modern Age was "Reconstruction." As well, because those two pages exist and this one is not a replacement but an alternate viewpoint, they needn't be as detailed.

So the examples need to be different to reflect that.