inkican@kbin.social to Science Fiction@kbin.social · 7 months ago“The Marvels” and the Paradox of the Superhero Franchisewww.newyorker.comexternal-linkmessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up13arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up13arrow-down1external-link“The Marvels” and the Paradox of the Superhero Franchisewww.newyorker.cominkican@kbin.social to Science Fiction@kbin.social · 7 months agomessage-square10fedilinkfile-text
How did a genre rooted in weirdness and wonder become a byword for the normative, the familiar, and the mundane?
minus-squareSternhammerlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·7 months agoThe bigger the budgets, the less appetite for risk. These huge superhero franchises are so different in scale from the original comics in this way.
The bigger the budgets, the less appetite for risk. These huge superhero franchises are so different in scale from the original comics in this way.