@6:58 there’s a cat meowing that picked up in your mic and i’m currently on the toilet and thought my cats were meowing to be let in(they do this a lot) turns out wasn’t them😂😂😂

Surfing bird?? Bird is the word?!

Maybe not that many superhero’s wear capes, but I would argue you see them even less in any other media or in real life. Aside from vampires, superheroes are the group with the highest population that wears capes, which might be why we link those two together. If I hear the word cape, the example that comes to mind is a superhero

In the online superhero game City of Heroes, for a long time you had to earn your cape. You had to reach level 20, and then play through a story arc to be allowed to wear a cape. The actual reason for this was that they didn't have capes ready by release date, because of animation issues. But they made up an in-game reason, and it stayed this way for years.

It’s for the drip. 😅

The Monolith is the Alien.

Very few superheroes wear capes. It's sort of like that line from the first X-men movie., when Wolverine complains about the black outfits, and Cyclops retors, "Well, what would you prefer, yellow spandex?"

"Youre probbly picturing a cape" your honor the youtuber is leading the witness. The Mcu is the biggest thing since sliced bread. Literally no one is imagining superheroes with capes 😂 The only reason would be because of the title and thumbnail

I wonder why he never tried STAR WARS as CARMINE INFANTINO did with gusto though with generic storylines.

i think some of those patriotic covers are the best,.....schomburg was great, but i actually preferred the artists at archie comics or mlj.....bob montana, irv novick, and harry lucey,.....

I agree on what your saying except one thing spiderman was rudderless all the way back when he got captain universes power...remember that?

Ah yes spider widow . Sometimes i miss my ex girlfriend. She was hot and burned like a match when she left me for some wizard

You'll notice Most of the modern Villains almost all wear capes!!! 🤠👍

I was wondering if you could do a video about Tim sales art

Spawn Cape is the most beautiful and important, Batman has utility reasons, and Superman is just because he can.

I feel sorry for whatever jet engine accidentally sucks Saitama into it.

There are some absolutely terrible ret cons, but some? Some are brilliant. Alan Moore's Miricle Man series was able to breathe new life into the character and help it distinguish itself from other publications. Green Lantern : Rebirth gave way to brand new age of Green Lantern domination in comics for a little while. In my opinion, the worst retcon is how DC resets itself every decade, or how Marvel continuously slides forward into the furture. Why? Because it'd actually be more interesting to see these characters age by real time. To actually die, for there to be consequences in their story. Hell, not all of them would be retired either. Wolverine and Superman can stay the same while characters like Batman or Spiderman eventually retire, possibly die, and give way to a new hero. Of course the "Status Quo" wpuld never accept such but it would be actually interesting to read.

The Superhero Genre properly originated with the old vigilante radio serials in the late 1920s and early 1930s, in an era "when gentlemen wore capes" - The Shadow, The Green Hornet, Batman, and Zorro are perhaps the best-known 'gentleman vigilantes' of the era; wealthy mortal men who used their resources to balance the scales of justice amidst the throes of the Great Depression. The non-caped adventurers you cite were much more blue-collar: Doc Savage was the OG Indiana Jones; Tarzan was raised in the jungle; John Carter was a Civil War soldier on Mars; etc. In the following years, superhero capes came to symbolize 'nobility': some favorably, as with Superman, Thor, Black Panther, and Martian Manhunter; some unfavorably, as with Doctor Doom. By and large, however, capes have disappeared. When they do appear, they are truly functional (Doctor Strange's levitation; Batman's gliding/armor; etc) or they are purely aesthetic (Superman, Captain Marvel, Thor, Storm, Magneto, etc) and so integral to the character's design that they simply look wrong without them. It's a fun note how capes were metaed in Megamind. You could likely do an entire episode on that topic alone.

"Dealing with a shooter" has sadly not aged well, even in four years. 😑

Personally, I think early comic creators added capes to flyers to make it easier to depict them flying. Modern art techniques make it easier to show the flying motion without capes. Heroes like Batman, the use is to cause a sense of mystery.

I really didn't like his retcon of the Falcon.

My favorite is Al Williamson. But i do like Wally Wood and Frazetta. King of the world Wally's fantasy is incredible. Lucasfilm turning it down because it was not suitable for children, ouch.

He’s certainly up there with the greats. Sky Masters over Kirby is so awesome.

Well done, great video. 👌🏿

The animated series that aired on Kids WB from 1997 - 2000 is still better than the movies. It's a lot darker and almost feels like an adult cartoon.

I have vol 3

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Simple logic, capes look cool, but for some super heroes it gets in the way... like imagine hawk eye reaching for his arrows but the cape is in the way

What in the actual hell are those pictures in the background??? Lmao

Chuck Austen also wrote Boys of Summer. It's a comic drawn in manga style and is about a bunch of Horny teens and their 'experiences' in college.

The man was actually wearing a cloak!

I don't give a shit what Austen has written, Mystique in my mind is still Nightcrawler's 'dad' and Destiny is his biological mother

It's also the fact that capes aren't really worn by anyone else and the ONLY characters we know that wear capes are superheroes

Satan/santA

to be fair, I don’t think new heroes are being made en mass anymore, they are much like you said either a spinoff, a subversion or a continuation of other heroes. Sure you have amazingly new independent heroes much like radiant black, but yeah I don’t think new original heroes are being made at a larger scale as it should be, hence no new caped heroes.

Whats with all the nazis in the comments lmao Bob Kane and Bill Finger were both jewish u guys know right?

Ever gave Jesus a serious try for all that depression you got going on there?

Only immortals wear capes. Those who die dont except batman because he is not the brightest.

"No Capes!" Edna Mode, Pixar's The Incredible 2003

Thank you for sharing this story.

Instead of playing some crappy kids game, you should of done marvel ultimate alliance or the granddaddy’s x men COTA or marvel vs capcom 2

Mulch.

Interestingly Bryan Solari from AlphaCore has a cape and so far at least is the only character in the Rippaverse to have one as part of their design

Wood was great but Kirby, Ditko, Adams, Frazetta and Corben are just as good or better.

I kinda liked Daredevils new look, but HATED the art, and i stopped collecting comics around that time because of comic burnout. And the overall shitty stories of the time. Never went back.

Any retcon involving the green goblin you know is gonna be terrible and means they ran out of ideas

I just wanted to say thanks for all the great uploads over the years. You're a great guy and your content always teaches me something new about my favorite comics. Thanks Chris :)

Whenever I hear of the 90s Spider-Man era starting strong then losing their way I get annoyed when people point out the artists that were. What do McFarlane, Larsen and Bagley’s runs all have in common? David Micheline. Talk about an underrated creator that always seems to fly under the shadow of his artists. I easily put him in my top 5 Spider-Man writers, my favorite Iron Man writer and probably the most unsong creator in all of Marvel, certainly of that era.

The BEST retcon is Wolverine's bone claws. Taking it from him having them.implanted to part of his mutation opened up a whole bunch of storytelling.

The real question is... Who the F#^k wears a cape & why?