Modern Age
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β Troy Barnes, Community, 2010
In the context of US comics, the Modern Age is the current era of darker, longer, slightly more diverse stories.
The era roughly started in 1986, with Batman: The Dark Knight Returns and Watchmen, spanning four and twelve comic book issues respectively. This marked the start of a decades-long shift, from writing mostly an endless stream of single-episode stories to fixed limited series, and therefore from selling mostly individual comic books to longer trade paperbacks. These stories are also often grittier and less simplistic, intended more for adult readers.
Thanks largely to smaller publishers such as Milestone Comics, stories of this era have also started to include better representation, and more diverse writers and illustrators, at least compared to previous eras.
Modern Age comic books tend to be 6β β³ Γ 10ΒΌβ³ (168 mm Γ 260 mm), slightly larger than US Trade size.
Comics: DC | Limited series | Masked vigilante | Modern Age | Superhero
