Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-3020860-20181010055200/@comment-3361105-20181022154815

Something0Something wrote: At the very least, I couldn't help myself thinking of "digital comics" when reading such a name.

But if it's just "for the common folk", maybe if the majority of the sales is digital ? Are there any comparative numbers ?

I think conjuring ideas of "digital comics" was the intention, no?

As for sales of digital vs. print - I'm not sure that's especially relevant, in terms of determining the era... not that I wouldn't still be interested to know.

The value of "digital" being that it is applicable across all publishers, as opposed to just DC, and that it is actually a phrase ("digital age") used to describe the era that we are currently in, culturally (not specifically in comics).

MektonZ wrote: Why the Copper Age is a thing, by the way? What makes it different from the Bronze Age? I had never heard of that term before reading it on this Wiki.

I'm not really clear on the Copper/Bronze distinctions either - but it is generally agreed that the "Dark Age" of comics is the Image Comics/Knightfall/Death of Superman/Spider-Clone 90s era of comics. We don't cover that at all, "era"-wise. The Modern Age, as far as the wiki goes, starts with COIE - perhaps inaccurately.

That said, I'm loath to just move the Modern Age to 2011, when generally, what you're calling the Mercury Age is what everyone except you and a superman fansite call the Modern Age (which fansite, by the way?).

That said, despite being loath to do it, it does kinda make more sense than going "METAL AGE" > "MODERN AGE" > "METAL AGE"

If we're going to do that, though, seems like we can't really treat the "modern age" like it's an actual era of comics, so much as just a placeholder name for the unnamed age we currently read.