Screen Time II, Electric Boogaloo

[brianrogers]

Discussion of RPGs as superhero movies continues at
http://subplotkudzu.blogspot.com/

Comments

[whswhs]

I think you're missing one of the ages of superhero comics, and it's one that's actually directly relevant to your power metaphor. After the "dark and violent supers" era that began with Dark Knight and Watchmen, we saw the "Maker of Universes" era when a lot of creators sought to follow the other example that Alan Moore set in Watchmen: Creating a new superhero universe with its own continuity and its own array of supers. Kurt Busiek's Astro City is a big example; Alan Moore had several, including the Tom Strong universe, the Top Ten universe, and the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen universe; the Invincible Universe is an example. All of this represents a turning back to the classic DC and Marvel universes as they were around 1960-1965, when they were still new and shiny and hadn't been multiply retconned-that is, a mood of nostalgia.

[brianrogers]

This is an excellent point; I've transported it to the main blog and responded to it there so the non LJ audience can see it

http://subplotkudzu.blogspot.com/2013/05/universal-comics-movieverse-4.html

[whswhs]

Your discussion there makes sense, but it gives me a further thought: What is the manifestation of the Nostalgia Age? Perhaps it's the very existence of the campaign, as, in Alan Moore style, the creator brings together multiple superheroes in a new joint continuity like that of the Extraordinary Gentlemen or the pastiche heroes in Planetary.

[brianrogers]

wait, so my very running of this game (for which I somewhat arbitrarily picked as a metaphor) is the manifestation of the next age of super hero stories? I don't know if its the Doc Toltec on the brain but does that make me part of the 6th root race?