According to comicvine everything after DC’s Crisis on Infinite Earths in 1985 is the Modern Age of Comics, now in 2017 that makes it the longest age at 32 years. I’ve always thought of the word modern as something of a placeholder as even the golden age was modern at the time so I think there should be some new ages.
These are just some ideas but I suggest 3 ages.
First is the Extreme Age which would span from the end of the Bronze Age in 1985 until the mid to late 90s, not sure when it would end but it would be before 2000. This name references the trend of the time that everything was supposed to be extreme, many heroes armored up, stories got darker and big events like age of apocalypse, zero point, the death of superman… happened as well as several smaller, independent companies got their start.
Alternatively this could be called the Dark Age for many of the same reasons plus the near bankruptcy of marvel and them selling so many movie rights.
I’m not sure what the time after that would be called, the Millennial age maybe.
I would say we are now in the New Age of comics which started in 2011 with DC’s new 52 and continued with all new marvel and again DC’s Rebirth.
Thoughts? Opinions? Suggestions? Should I make a poll or am I just nuts?
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