The Dark Age: Grim, Great & Gimmicky Post-Modern Comics

by Mark Voger, Dave Gibbons, Frank Miller

Do you remember The Dark Knight Returns and Watchmen? The "polybagged" premium" craze? The death of Superman? Renegade super-heroes Spawn, Pitt, Bloodshot and Cyberforce? When vigilantes spilled blood by the gallon -- and those were the good guys? Read all about the sometimes glorious, sometimes gory era of comic books known as The Dark Age!

Genres: Comics, Nonfiction, History

168 pages, Paperback

First published January 18, 2006

Reviews

[Jdetrick · Rating 1 out of 5]

There's a great book to be written about the late 80s and early 90s in comics, but unfortunately, this is not that book. It never really defines the era, it's horribly laid out (it looks like an ugly comic from the 90s) and it is jumbled. The author goes back and forth in time, jumps between subjects, and repeats certain points incessantly. Horribly disappointing.

[Corban Ford · Rating 3 out of 5]

An interesting dive into a very specific era in comics, one of wholly unnecessary darkness, over the top costumes and storylines, and all manner of..."interesting" gimmicks. Ah to grow up in the early '90s, I can only imagine...

(I would have grabbed **every** foiled copy of the Death of Superman though, including wristbands. I know myself.)