[DOC]

Yes, we need a separate thread about Blackest Night and such.  I like others being an artist and writer follow the characters and the plots. I did like legion of 3 worlds due mostly to Perez but the story was pretty OK.
When Blackest Night is over everyone who was killed during will be back and I think it's a vehicle to bring J'onn and Arthur back without have to go thru a convoluted story admitting they were wrong to get rid of them in the first place. But what is up with captain America:Reborn?? Now that is bad retconning.
I only get the Dynamite stuff for...hell I don't know why except they're GA heroes and what to see if they might get handled better.
You're right about the industry being run by fanboys and retooling the SA, it's like how cable was great when it first started and you could see old shows like I married Joan, or Gail Storm, the kids raised in the 80's took over and now everything is the same, with reality shows and no unique stuff from the 50's. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

[narfstar]

Need a station to go back to what Nick at Nite used to be. Burns and Allen, Life of Riley, Get Smart and all the other good stuff. Once they got into the 80's I consider that stuff new.

[Yoc]

No need for a station Narf.
There's TONS of free public domain stuff on http://www.archive.org/details/movies.

Wonderful early TV shows in abundance.

-Yoc

[John C]

While I agree that comedy certainly stalled out around the '80s--almost everything settling into the featureless family sitcom or the Three's Company mold--I would consider it the peak of the cross-genre shows.  I mean, what was Remiington Steele but a '40s romantic comedy written on Star Trek's "do what you can on this budget" playbook?

That's not to say that there haven't been highlights on the comedy landscape.  I've enjoyed "How I Met Your Mother" for the nonlinear narrative and I'd certainly put "Sledge Hammer" in the same league as "Get Smart."  But both of those also take the cross-genre philosophy to heart, too.

(I'd go back to the differences between comics, but I can't help think that'll just bring down my day.  But I really do hate the constant backpedalling.  "We changed the status quo!  Uhm...but not too much.  This guy is still around in a different capacity, see?  Err...OK, we put everything back the way we found it.  Because we meant to do it all along, though, and not because you were making fun of us on blogs...")

[narfstar]

I thought Sledge Hammer was well done far out humor

[Yoc]

I can think of much better 70s shows but there were some not terrible comedies in the 80s too though drama/mysteries were better at the time-

1982-Police Squad
1982-Cheers
1982-Newhart
1984-Duck Factory
1986-Sledge Hammer
1988-Murphy Brown
1988-The Wonder Years
1989-The Simpsons
1989-Coach