1985 In Comics: An AMAZING HEROES Time Capsule

[jlroberson]

From, Jesus Christ, 26 years ago, a selection of AMAZING HEROES' previews(and ads) for upcoming 1985 comics. Note how many game-changing comics were packed into that year. Also a very different alternative scene, and books which were hotly promoted and then disappeared. And a LOT of Alan Moore, Los Bros Hernandez, and Frank Miller. Comics was about to change, hard.




Add this Fantagraphics Alan Moore project, never realized(although I'm sure it fed eventually into bits of LOST GIRLS), to the pile of Stuff That Would Have Been Way Cool But Never Happened, like his own FASHION BEAST and TWILIGHT OF THE SUPERHEROES, or Grant Morrison's SICK BUILDINGS(which Morrison just made up).

Tags-- publisher: eclipse, publisher: fantagraphics books, title: amazing heroes, year: 1985, creator: alan moore, creator: bill sienkiewicz, creator: marv wolfman, creator: george perez, creator: william messner-loebs, creator: dave sim, creator: keith giffen, creator: chris claremont, creator: howard chaykin, creator: jaime hernandez, creator: gilbert hernandez

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You can either have a tidy compressed archive or a usable file; a neatly organized living/work space, or one in which you can actually live/work.

More to the point, every writer wants to tell his or her own stories with a character; and over time, they end up just not fitting together. No matter what Morrison likes to claim, you can't make all 80 years of Batman, the silly and the grim, work as one story. The multiverse allows that freedom for creativity. And that, along with nostalgia, is why it keeps coming back.

You can either have one "official" version at any time, and reboot things every once in a while so you can have a new one, or allow more than one to be true simultaneously.