xkcd #3089: Modern

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• jordanlund@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Gets really weird when you start talking about comic book eras.

  Golden Age - 1938 to 1956 (18 years)
  Silver Age - 1956 to 1970 (14 years)
  Bronze Age - 1970 to 1985 (15 years)

  Here’s where it gets fun:

  Modern Age - 1985 to Present (40 years)

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  • lordnikon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Really the modern age should go from 1985 - 2011 for dc and marvel it would be 2018

    Then the next agent would be new 52 for 15 years and fresh start for marvel.

    Then rebirth for dc after that in 2016

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    • jordanlund@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      There needs to be one era for 1985 up to the 1990s speculation crash, then another for that era, and a 3rd post speculation era, but I’m not sure how to break it out.

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  • Jesus_666@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Wasn’t there a Dark Age after Bronze? The one where everyone was scowling the whole time and the stories were so tryhard edgy you could use a typical Youngblood issue as a letter opener?

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    • jordanlund@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      With square gun barrels. :)

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• My_IFAKs___gone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I like how contemporary is more modern than modern.

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  • fireweed@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I always feel like a total dweeb using “contemporary,” but my desire for accuracy wins out every time.

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• thesohoriots@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Those aren’t the only two terms in contention, unfortunately, because academics love a pissing contest. Middle fingers to the term I personally hate, “cosmodernism.”

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  • StripedMonkey@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Are atanmodernism and cscmodernism a thing?

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• Donkter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Modern is defined as the current year of whatever writer coined the term. So after writing about the “modern” day for a century…

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• ksigley@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  There really is an xkcd for everything.

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• DarkCloud@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Metamodern.

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  • yesman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    This was supposed to be a synthases of modern and post-modern, but it seems to me they took the worst parts of modernism and the straw-person caricature of the postmodern and mixed them in a blender.

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• floo@retrolemmy.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The word “modern “means different things in different contexts. This comic is making a joke about mixing them.

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• CidVicious@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Especially when the periods defined by these terms are often different time frames depending on the field.

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• match@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  i propose we use skibidi here

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