Is there any reason why a lot of 90s-early 2000s Dark Horse comics are fixated on 1940s pulp era tough guys? Not just pic related but The Mask wears a zoot suit and Sin City is a complete throwback to pulp and film noir.
Is there any reason why a lot of 90s-early 2000s Dark Horse comics are fixated on 1940s pulp era tough guys...
Caleb Taylor
Nathaniel Campbell
Had to do with minorities fucking everything up like usual
Levi Lee
Go back to Zig Forums
Adrian Fisher
It's classy
Jack Perez
You go back to Botswana pufferfish lips
Elijah Powell
What the fuck are you talking about?
Hudson Myers
Imagine being such a drone you have to bring up your retarded politics on a thread about Hellboy and The Mask
Jason White
Oh oh ah aah!!
Here’s a banana
John Flores
That's an interesting question. Tough guy pulp/noir is a fun aesthetic to play with.
John Diaz
I really want a zoot suit revival
Nolan Morgan
If had to guess it’s probably because Miller and Mignola would’ve been teens when a lot of 30s/40s pulp stuff was being reprinted and I assume they were raised by old school combat veterans
Ethan Bell
Forgot the picture
Ryan Johnson
Bitch, behave
Nathaniel Cox
For sucking on your mama's clit
Aiden Watson
Go steal some skittles and ice tea with a fake 20 dollar bill
Juan Bailey
Literally you
Ian Brown
Triggered huh monkey boy?
Mason Foster
Dude, would you turn a comic book thread about black people if you don't even like them? Do you really wants us to go back to Africa or we can keep living rent free on your head?
Jaxson Jenkins
Go back to Twitter with the other alphabet people who believe all your lies
Matthew Sanchez
Because up until then that period was the one with less cape comics availble in the US.
Noah Edwards
Confirmed schitzo posting
Easton Brown
Are The Mask comics worth reading? I like the movie but I’m aware the comics are really different
Easton Lopez
Needs more black on black crime
Christopher Cooper
>alphabet people
Nigga if you can pull one original riff out of your tiny brain i will fucking book a one way trip to Gana right now.
Gavin Rogers
I fucking love the artwork.
Hunter Mitchell
>using this kind of bait
>responding to this kind of bait
Not sure which is more pathetic.
Ethan Jones
All worthy it for this huy if nothing else
Matthew Nelson
Dark Horse's bread and butter in the 90s was really sci-fi, especially the Aliens license. That made up nearly half their comics catalog at one point. But really all Marvel, DC or Image wanted to publish was EXTREME superhero stuff so Dark Horse became a haven for creators who wanted to publish other stuff like pulp/noir, horror, crime drama, etc. Their only real competition at the time was Vertigo so they were able to attract a lot of talent and Richardson's business savvy with licensed comics and manga created a steady revenue stream for the company so they had more freedom to publish niche material.
Jeremiah Bennett
a way to have edgy seeming characters but not rely on art style?
Luke Carter
That makes a lot of sense
Asher Harris
Arguably nobody alive knows more about the business side of comics than Mike Richardson. Even though they haven't pulled out completely like DC, DH has been quietly side-stepping Diamond for years now. Case in point, the Stranger Things #1 comic looked like a complete flop on Diamond's page because they only got 60,000 copies to distribute. The total print order of the comic was actually 162,000 issues, the majority of which where retailer exclusive variant orders to stores like Game Stop and Hot Topic.
Brandon Campbell
Just complimenting on what you've said, but I think Mike Richardson's own interests fall into crime and horror comics and pulp literature, as well as many of the late 60s-early 80s creators which were the people he was friends with from their fan community years (and the guys he first got to work for DH), so maybe this also plays in some part.