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Why are DC and Marvel comics singularly fixated on heroes, villains, and the superhuman geniuses who enable them?
Has there ever been an honest attempt to focus on how people actually live in a world where 20% of the population has a super power, new york is annihilated on an annual basis and there is a constant influx of alien technology?
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>>91660339
Gotham Central?
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>>91660414
I mean, it's still crimefighting
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>>91660339
Periodically, and no one cares to buy it, and it's shitcanned.
They even have a tv show about it, which I am sure is circling the drain.
No one is interested in the "normal civilian reaction" to Superheroes and villains because they operate in universes where the civvies are obligated to react to their shenanigans in ridiculous ways to drive the story.
Man of Steel really drove this point home by positing "what if we discovered the Alien?", then having everyone ignore the revelation til the cluttered CGI ending where it's reduced to cutscenes of extras staring up open-mouthed.
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>waaah why are superhero comics superhero comics
Go read Astro City or Top Ten or whatever, bud, but this is like asking why destined heroes exist in fantasy novels.
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>>91660339
Some minis like the Frontline stuff they do for events where they focus on news reporters.
You should check out Love & Rockets. Specifically the early Jaime stuff. It's all about normal people in a sci-fi world of superheroes.
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>>91660559
how has your mind become so warped that you see any question you don't like as infantile crying?
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>>91660339
(a) nobody cares about normies. Even normies don't care about normies
(b) if they honestly examined "how people actually live in a world where 20% of the population has a super power, new york is annihilated on an annual basis and there is a constant influx of alien technology?" then you'd lose the grounded nature of most of these series in about five minutes. It becomes a weird story about a weird society ruled over by warring alien gods.
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Most superhero comic have a supporting cast of normies.
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Damage Control
Powerless
Astro City
Marvels
DCU Legacies
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>>91660339
Marvels, Astro City, Top Ten.
It's sort of its own genre it's been done so much. You just outed yourself as a turbo casual.
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