>age of modern big budget capeflicks start in 1978 with Superman

I understand that putting a gorilla on the cover of a comic book in the golden age was basically a guaranteed way to sell more comics, but why the hell were gorillas so popular?

>>82296342
Kids love monkeys/apes I guess

Not sure where the obsession game from.

>>82296342
King Kong maybe.

>>82296342
people used to fucking love monkeys and gorillas for some reason
>>82297554
this was probably a big contributor, if not the main responsible

I think it was absolutely retarded how popupar fucking primates were, but then again, we only recently started moving slowly away from the zombie craze.

>>82298624
>people used to fucking love monkeys and gorillas for some reason

People still do, just look at the massive shitstorm that ensued Harambe's death.

>>82298700
nah, m8, harambe might as well have been a tiger, retards would have stirred shit up anyway. I'll give you that him being a gorilla helped because it's surely closer to a human than a feline or anything alse.

but nah, apes aren't nearly as popular as they were back then

>>82298624
>people used to fucking love monkeys and gorillas for some reason
That's because back then we could to a certain degree identify with animals, nowadays we can only identify with iPhones and artificially-intelligent googlebots.

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>tfw will never get capeshit movies based on the golden and silver ages ever again

>>82298766
Beside the fact that I doubt anyone identifies with an iPhone the way you mean, are you implying that identifying with a gorilla is any less retarded?

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Where is my Kamandi movie, Warners?

>>82296294
>spend my entire youth obsessively reading comic books and drawing
>actually funny, mostly Belgian comics
>no fucking gay-ass capeshit

>Hollywood/America happens
>people think "comic = capeshit" now

>develop immense hatred of American "comic book geeks"
>to the point where I stop reading comics
>still have collection of more than 10.000 classic comics laying on my attic

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>>82296294
DCucks on suicide watch

>>82296342
Because gorillas are fucking awesome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kz6s5Yi5Ns