Mutant for Hire Posted April 24, 2005 Report Share Posted April 24, 2005 Re: Essential Bad Bronze Age Drugs and booze problems for superheroes. It wasn't exactly endemic but it cropped up now and then. Oh yes, and girlfriends getting killed. That also happened in the Bronze Age. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FenrisUlf Posted April 25, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 25, 2005 Re: Essential Bad Bronze Age Agreed. I think Denny O'Neil was the worst culprit of this sort of overly preachy story-telling. Green Lantern being excoriated for helping the blue-skins' date=' but ignoring the problems of the black-skins here on Earth is the worst example. [/quote'] I remember what one reviewer had to say about 'ignoring the black skins': "Let's recap. Just HOW MANY times has GL saved the Earth this year?" You'd think that kind of comes under the heading of 'helping the black skins'. And having read some of the new SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN collection, I can see where the politics got a bit thick at times. They also had the usual 'all (Vietnam) Vets are headcases or violent felons' bit, which is really noxious by my standards. (But then, that happened after every war, so I guess I can't really criticize Marvel there.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CBikle Posted April 26, 2005 Report Share Posted April 26, 2005 Re: Essential Bad Bronze Age This didn't help. Iuz the Evil 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
austenandrews Posted April 26, 2005 Report Share Posted April 26, 2005 Re: Essential Bad Bronze Age Wow, that rules. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
assault Posted April 26, 2005 Report Share Posted April 26, 2005 Re: Essential Bad Bronze Age This didn't help. Sadly, I can't rep you at the moment. Dazzler is another fine example of this kind of nonsense. The Teen Titans fought a bunch of people called the Rocket Rollers (or something like that) who rode rocket powered skateboards. This is the "fad showcase" thing mentioned in the Champions Genre book (5th Ed, of course). The cool thing about all of this stuff is that it narrowed the gap between Hostess Twinkie ads and the comics they appeared in. A Bad Bronze Age game would be simplicity itself. You can find pretty nearly all of the Hostess ads at http://www.seanbaby.com. *Warning: this site is not work/child safe*. Just stat out the villains, and there ya go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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