We need a DCU not exclusively for adults

[chastmastr]

Yes, the entrails and full-on scenes of the -- there must be a word for this, but the core-sample-looking or tree-ring-looking things in characters' severed limbs, where it looks like something from a dissection table or a butcher -- were not what we had then or later for the most part. Even really graphic violence tended to be suggested rather than directly shown. It was years before I realized some things that were (likely) going on in some stories. Ah, layered stories during the comics code era did have some pluses to them...

I know you mean a portmanteau/hybrid word (gore + porn) when you say gorn, but I keep hearing this:



Sorry, but I do... :laugh:

[Jim Thompson]

I know you mean a portmanteau/hybrid word (gore + porn) when you say gorn, but I keep hearing this:



Sorry, but I do... :laugh:

Not this?

[chastmastr]

Not this?

Nope! Is that from one of the Next Generation series, or the recent movie?

[Jim Thompson]

Nope! Is that from one of the Next Generation series, or the recent movie?

Star Trek: Enterprise, from the Mirror Universe episodes.

[chastmastr]

Star Trek: Enterprise, from the Mirror Universe episodes.

Ah! I never actually caught that series, believe it or not...

Technically, the Gorn I'm most familiar with is actually this one. When I saw the actual episode I thought it was odd that he was green, not brown, and had entirely different clothes. (And why his action figure had exactly the same outfit as the Klingon was also unexplained.)

Of course, my Gorn was a super-hero like most of my other action figures (yes, even Gor, King of the Terrons), but I was a weird kid. (Perhaps I still am...)


Fig. 1. Gor, King of the Terrons.

[Jim Thompson]

Ah! I never actually caught that series, believe it or not...

It took a couple of seasons to hit it's stride, I thought, but those last two were pretty entertaining, I thought! Those mirror universe episodes were awesome!

[Mat001]

There's one HUGE difference between the 1940's and the present day, though, and it shows clearly in those snippets you posted: while there was plenty of violence and death dealt out back then, it wasn't dwelt on and the (literally) gory details were kept to an absolute minimum - not like today, where the Gorn is exaggerated to Grand Guignol proportions (look that up) and shoved right into the reader's face.

Yes and today's audiences don't really mind that at all. That's why horror films aren't targeted like they used to be for all the blood and violence like they were in the conservative 80's. More and more young kids are desensitized to violence because the parents let them play violent video games or watch violent images in film. Hell, they can go online and type in gore and get all kinds of real and fake stuff. The only complaints are from the small minority that take offense.