Overheard a guy at the shop say Marvel comics peaked in the 80s and I gotta push back

I was flipping through back issues at my local shop last Saturday and some dude told his friend that nothing modern comes close to Claremont's X-Men. Look I respect the classics and I grew up on those too. But stuff like Al Ewing's Immortal Hulk or the current Moon Knight run tells stories with way more psychological depth. Has anyone else felt like fans write off entire decades without giving the new stuff a fair shot?

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the_tessa23d ago

Claremont's X-Men? That guy just shut down everything from like 1990 onward with one sentence. I swear some people act like comics stopped being good once they hit their 30s. I was flipping through a bunch of new books the other day and Immortal Hulk alone proves there's still weird, smart stuff happening on the stands. That series was basically a horror comic about trauma and anger, not just a green guy smashing things. Writing off the last 40 years because you grew up on one era feels like lazy nostalgia honestly.

caleb_thomas9323d ago

Immortal Hulk got praised because it stood out compared to the flood of forgettable events and reboots from the last 20 years, and Claremonts run defined characters for decades while most modern comics get forgotten after six months.