When they finally did shake off the yoke, following trailblazers like Steve Gerber and Alan Moore, authors were a bit over-enthusiastic, full as they were of pent-up stories and themes. 'Superman's Pal' Jimmy Olson was forced to marry a gorilla no fewer than three separate occasions. In trying to write around these and other rules, it's not surprising that code era books got a little weird in their search for original plots.
Good always had to triumph over evil and seduction could never be shown or suggested. There goes any comic book retellings of Robin Hood. The code was an outgrowth of reactionary postwar witch-hunting a la McCarthyism, and succeeded in bowdlerizing and stultifying an entire medium for thirty years.įor example, all crime had to be portrayed as sordid, and no criminals could be sympathetic. They were well on their way to catching up with other art forms until they were hit with the 'Comics Code' in the fifties. *tips hat*Ĭomics have been going through a very public struggle with maturity for some time now. Thank you! This was not something I would have found on my own. Recommended by Artemy for our Shallow club's Daisy Chain Buddy Read. That does not even scratch the surface of Transmetropolitan.īut I'm honestly at a loss as to how to explain anything else! If you enjoy the bizarre with a hint of reality, then this is the book for you. And within a few days of living in the city, he breaks one of the biggest stories of the day, simply by following his instincts. Spider Jerusalem (<-fucking awesome name, btw) is one of those journalists who lives to peel away the artificial bullshit and get to the truth. I should mention that this is set in a nutty futuristic esque world where the mundane and the insane comfortably mingle together. And never misses an opportunity to say so.
For years he's been living off the grid like a hardcore prepper and is loathe to come back to civilization. The main character is this deranged genius of a journalist, who only comes back to the city because he owes his publisher and the money is already spent. I don't really know what to say about this one, except it was off the wall and crazy in the best way possible.
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