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xkcd #3089: Modern (xkcd.com)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Scholars are still debating whether the current period is post-postmodern or neo-contemporary.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Gets really weird when you start talking about comic book eras.

Golden Age - 1938 to 1956 (18 years)
Silver Age - 1956 to 1970 (14 years)
Bronze Age - 1970 to 1985 (15 years)

Here's where it gets fun:

Modern Age - 1985 to Present (40 years)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Really the modern age should go from 1985 - 2011 for dc and marvel it would be 2018

Then the next agent would be new 52 for 15 years and fresh start for marvel.

Then rebirth for dc after that in 2016

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There needs to be one era for 1985 up to the 1990s speculation crash, then another for that era, and a 3rd post speculation era, but I'm not sure how to break it out.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah you make a good point. the 90s could have a fun name like the too many pouches era.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

This is glory redefined.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Wasn't there a Dark Age after Bronze? The one where everyone was scowling the whole time and the stories were so tryhard edgy you could use a typical Youngblood issue as a letter opener?

(Basically the "pouches" era the sibling comments talk about. Rob Liefeld's contributions to fashion will never be forgotten.)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

With square gun barrels. :)