Buddy Saunders on Nihilistic Comics

It's interesting to read Lone Star Comics' Buddy Saunders on the current wave of making-the-poop-face, serious as a heart attack in a war zone while writing a constitution superhero comics that are being pushed by the big mainstream publishers right now. What I found intriguing about the essay is that Saunders seem to be coming from a position of general indictment about this kind of art's utility, popularity and perhaps even general morality rather than the more commonly held position that marrying adult themes and ideas to broad, colorful children's icons is a rotten idea. It's an intriguing read for that point of view.

By putting the blame on companies for producing this sort of material, Saunders may also be soft-peddling the role of the direct market as enabler, partly due to a retailers culture that prefers to sell books they themselves enjoy and partly due to stores being generally helpless before whatever the Big Two want to push.
 
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