They grow up in buyers, but not in how they're written
Published by Avi Green on Sunday, October 14, 2007 at 4:59 AM.
Another article that deals with the readership growing older:
TROY, N.Y. -- It's that time of the week again at Aquilonia Comics in Troy...delivery day. But when it comes to the readers, they aren't your typical 12-year-olds waiting for that latest Superman comic. These days, they're mostly adults.The problem with articles like this one is that they don't give a clear distinction just how they've grown up - and what can be considered that way. Are they intelligently written, like some of Alan Moore's books during the 1980s, for example? Or, are they juvenilely written trash like Identity Crisis? But what they certainly don't make clear is how the companies today don't seem interested in marketing to kids!
Comic book reader Tim Colaneri said, "I grew up in the sixties and seventies reading comics and collecting comics, and it's definitely more adult-oriented and comics have grown up."
The storylines have matured, and many comics nowadays are written in a continuous theme, almost like an action-packed soap opera. This, along with today's high-tech world, may explain the change in the younger generation.I thought even years before, comics had some soap-operatic qualities to them? What's so new about this?
