>>79268925Your argument is honestly pretty hollow. Remember the Nu52, when everything was teh same grim, dark, dreary tone throughout the line whether it made sense for the character or not? It's the same problem but applied in reverse.
The key is diversity. Having the dark and light hearted books mixed together. Will books with the same tone feel samey? Certainly! But it is no fault of the tone itself, nor signs of a grander problem.
I mean, just from Marvel, you also have Al Ewing going nuts with New Avengers. You have a full on horror series with Carnage. And Then there's Vision, which is dark in a psychological thriller vein.
Pretty varied stuff.
Not every story has to be life and limb. But if you want a female-marketed and centered book that has bite, look to the current run of Ms. Marvel. Things are apparently starting towards a Parker-inspired downward spiral and it's kind of great.
Peter never had his image co-opted and then had protests against what his image now represented lead by a major player in his supporting cast IIRC.
As to the idea that it's 'kid gloves type escapism'? Well, when life is shitty, people turn to fiction that allows them for escape. Look at the Great Depression. Ya know the movies that did really well in that time period?
Escapist fantasy.
Sure, there was Noir thriller stuff, but far more popular was shit like Gone with the Wind, The Wizard of Oz, and King Kong. Things that allowed people to forget how shitty life was.
And some people need that in one way or another. Turning to lighter fare to escape is not a sin of a work, it is just an aspect of it.
That you don't like it is purely you're own problem.
