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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Serge" data-source="post: 1942680" data-attributes="member: 4049">And this "Silver Age Renaissance" is one of the dumbest directions DCs been allowing.  What this does, more than anything else, is reveal the dirth of ideas the writers have.  The nonsense with the return of the orange shirt to the asinine "invisible jet" (for a woman who can fly), to the idiotic best buddy relationship between The Batman and Superman...  All of this is in a pathetic attempt on the part of bankrupt writers to return to their past rather than attempting to allow the characters to evolve within a contemporary paradigm.  I can't stand it.From Jeph Loeb (who's great at creating atmosphere and plots, not at writing dialogue or telling stories) to Alex Ross (great artist, but mired in this Silver Age swill), there are too many creators out there imposing their middle age search for nostalgia in their material.  It's really ashame because a lot of these characters really lose their impact as a result.  Let's remember that with characters like Aquaman, the original costume has less to do with any kind of fundamental design consideration and a lot more to do with the limited palettes artists were working with back in the 40s and 50s.  The "new" costume made a great deal more sense from a conceptual and geographical perspective even within a fantasy.As for the suggestion that DC is somehow less realistic than Marvel, I don't see it.  Marvel Universe is no more realistic than DC.  The difference that I see between the two is that the degree of technology between different internal titles.  The technology The Batman uses in his titles tends to be on the low end (historically in Detective Comics especially), but in Justice League, he has access to truly impressive technology that rivals what one sees across most Marvel titles.  I mean, Marvel strikes me as far more dependant upon alien/super technology than DC.  From the Fantastic Four to the X-Men, to the various Infinity series, super technology has a far greater broad impact on Marvel titles than one sees in most DC titles.</blockquote>

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