How far should capeshit take itself too seriously what are some

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>>93068587
There's a current storytime with lots of anons shitting on him, but Howard Chaykin wrote some pretty damn good miniseries that sound like what you describe. Twilight is his deconstruction of DC's Silver Age Space heroes, while Blackhawk is his gritty, politicized take on the Blackhawk squadron.

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>>93068587
>good '""""mature""""" storylines that arent edgy

I like Pantheon. It's inspired by both Watchmen and Kingdom Come but without the respective nihilism and Silver Age wankery.
The story is about what happens when the superheroes "win": All the bad guys are either locked up or retired, aliens have gotten so thoroughly BTFO that they don't bother invading anymore, and all is well. The superhero community divides into two factions, one that wants to retire since the job's done and another that wants to go full Squadron Supreme/Injustice on everyone's ass. Additionally, there's a third faction of normal humans who are very worried that neither superhuman faction bothered asking them for their opinions and are seeking a third option.

>>93068864

Interesting. I'll give it a look, thanks

>>93068587
Steve Gerber's Foolkiller was his real magnum opus. No comic has ever better explored the effects of vigilantism/superheroism on a man and how it'd destroy him.

>>93069223
Are the rest of his works good?

>>93069172
Reminds me of Twilight of the Super-Heroes a bit, especially that last part about the normal humans.

>>93070080
Gerber is probably the most underrated cape writer ever. He should be considered one of the greats.

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80s vigilante posting those two Alan moore fill in issues.

>>93069172
The synopsis alone is enough for me to consider this possibly one of the best comics. Going to go read it right now.

>>93070080
He wrote a lot of stuff. You'd probably know Howard the Duck, he created the character and, up to this day, is the only one who gets him (he projected a lot of himself in the character). He also wrote Omega the Unknown, the aforementioned Foolkiller, Man-Thing, etc.

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>>93072112
Hope you enjoy it.

>>93070199
I wouldn't be surprised.

>>93075613
This.