BY MIKEY MIGO
I’ll start by saying that I’m not against superhero movies or comic book movies or “graphic novels” for those who are kidding themselves. I have fond memories of the old Batmans, of course I love the newer Nolan Batmans, Spiderman were okay, the old Supermans were okay, Ironman was fun, and there have been a few others that I didn’t have too many problems sitting through. My problem is that I think the superhero tap is drying out. I know there are PLENTY of comic book characters that haven’t seen screen time yet. No thanks. There is a reason some characters are not a movie, cartoon, or television characters. I think I enjoy Superman more in print and Batman more on screen. I never read Iron Man at all and other than some X-Men and some Spawn my comic book knowledge is pretty small. And sadly, I’d be that I’m probably above average when it comes to what I know about this artistic hobby. It’s just not my cup of tea. It’s a niche’ market. Because Batman, Ironman, and a couple superhero offshoots were popular it doesn’t automatically mean anything with a mask or cape will succeed. Now we have Batman, Spiderman, Superman, Ironman, Green Hornet, Green Lantern, Thor, Captain America, Fantastic Four, Nick Fury, Kick Ass, The Hulk, like a dozen established X-Men characters, and stuff about Wonder Woman, Antman, The Flash, and a plethora of others. Enough is enough. There needs to be a two superhero movie a year limit agreed upon by Marvel, DC, and whoever else puts these things out there. Hell, a three movie limit would be cool with me too. That would still be a huge difference than the fourteen point nine billion superhero movies currently released or soon to be released. The problem is that all of these bad ones dilute the hell out of the market. Once someone sees a good one, they end up seeing like 3 bad ones and then they don’t want to give a good one a chance. The awe and uniqueness of a really good A-List superhero is drained little by little with each C-Lister. The kids who really like it will go towards the comics and be fans for life, but I think this will do more harm than good come the next generation of comics. All of this stuff works in cycles, it’ll get popular again, but the next downtime is going to be barren as hell for shops, companies, and artists. It’s similar to how professional wrestling works. Or hell, we can put it in many terms. It would have been like seeing Michael Jordon, Magic, and Bird in commercials and then start seeing David Robinson and Clyde Drexler in commercials. Before you know it Kendall Gill is in a 7-11 commercial trying to sell beef jerky. If you enjoyed NBA basketball in the early 90’s then that reference was hilarious. If you didn’t get the joke then now you know exactly how everyone who didn’t subscribe to Wizard World feels about all these superhero movies. I like Stan Lee as much as the next person, but do we have to give him so much money that he can afford the same technology as his characters?
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