Random Thoughts
The first of these random thoughts has nothing to do with comic books. The second does.
1. September - November is a damn good time to be a Dallas Cowboys fan. I don’t even really mean that in a snarky “the Cowboys suck in December haha” kinda way (partly because I actually am a Cowboys fan). I mean it, every year it looks like things might be going good for the Cowboys, maybe this is the year that they go all the way. Consider the NFL teams that haven’t won a playoff game this decade:
Buffalo Bills
Cincinnati Bengals (they’ll have a shot to win a playoff game this year)
Cleveland Browns
Detroit Lions
Houston Texans
Kansas City Chiefs
Dallas Cowboys
Being a fan of these teams for the last decade had to suck. Except for the Cowboys. Because for the last few years, we’ve had September - November to enjoy. It’s obviously bittersweet (with a pretty heavy focus on the bitter), kind of like how the Redskins are the offseason champs every year.
2. I was reading The Flash: Emergency Stop, a trade (written by Grant Morrison and Mark Millar, art by Paul Ryan) I picked up recently. Jay Garrick, substituting for Wally West, notes how Superhero (and by implication, the writers are saying Comic Book) eras come in periods of twenty years. ‘35 to ‘55 was the Golden Age. ‘55 to ‘75 was the Silver Age. ‘75 to ‘95 was the Dark Age. Jay and another character speculate on this and note that it’s too early to tell what the next age will be called (The Emergency Stop story arc was published in ‘97/’98 I think). Following the pattern, the next Age would take place between ‘95 and ‘15.
I think we should call it Dark Age 2: More Darker. I had to do a bit of research to justify this claim. A lot of it comes from just reading comics and trying to get up to date, which is what I did in September when I got back into comics.
I believe this is the age where Aunt May was killed off 2 or 3 different times. The age where “The Rape Pages” were in more than once. The age where the Marvel Superheroes had a Civil War, and the DC Superheroes were subjugated to Crises Infinite and Final, and one of Identity. Currently, in Marvel the Reign is Dark. In DC, the Night is at it’s Blackest.
So, yeah. Dark Age 2: More Darker.
