Do You Fear The Silly?

[Flightpath07]

http://robot6.comicbookresources.com...ear-the-silly/

Nice article, about the silliness of comics versus dark and brooding realism.

[Le Messor]

But that's what we've been trying to tell you!!!

[Flightpath07]

Yes, but they never listen to us.

Dark, mature comic stories have their place in the comics medium; but I don't want superhero comics to ever lose that sense of bettering us as a people. I think there should always be comics that are not ambiguous, but are simply good versus evil stories, with both sides clearly defined (ahem! writers of Wolverine, et al).

[Le Messor]

Dark, mature comic stories have their place in the comics medium;

Yep, the article kind of covered that.
I'd rather comics be a bunch of 'silly' light and fun stories with a few dark and mature stories scattered between than a bunch of 'gritty', 'realistic', and "mature" stories with a few scattered silly stories if you know where to look.
But guess which we've been at for the last twenty years or so?

(I do think it's getting better, though.)

~ Le Messor
"I was going to study in the reverse psychology faculty, but I couldn't think of a topic for my antithesis."