Current Overused Comic Book Ideas

Posted on December 14th, 2007 by Dave

Fads come and go don’t they? They’re slightly different from trends aren’t they? Trends imply a shift in tendencies. A cultural move that we all agree on. This concept can be used to examine any number of topics. Today it’s comic books.

Lately I’ve been reading a lot of comics. Probably way too many, for reasons I probably shouldn’t go into. But I’m reading a lot and I’m seeing a certain amount of repetitiveness. It’s not the usual repetitiveness that we’ve come to both love and want in comics; like good guys going after bad guys, or capes, or super human strength. Its things like phrasing, costumes and characters. In the near future I’m going to do a BIG article on it, but for now I’d like to broach the subject with these few things I’ve noticed.

“Get off me!” is an expression I’m seeing a lot. I personally associate those words with big brother vs. little brother situations, or females in conflict with males. But it’s popping up in a lot of comics. I saw at least a dozen times before I started collecting images. Take a look at some.

Ok that last one is a variation done by Captain America. And speaking of him. I’m noticing a lot of characters are showing up with Captain America style belts. It kind of started when they changed Batman’s traditional utility belt to one of these War Packs or Action Sacks, or whatever you want to call them. But now EVERYbody is wearing one. Here’s how Batman started out.

And this is what Captain America wore-I mean it made sense, He WAS in WWII!

So aside from the fact that they didn’t want you to forget he had a penis, that was his belt. Which now has been slapped on Batman too. But all kinds of people are wearing one now, here’s just a couple I found.

Another thing that’s popping up a LOT is calling women cows. But I’ve just started collecting those. And in real life I have never ONCE heard somebody call a woman that. But in England and the comic books it appears to be quite common.