AT THE HELM
thoughts on superheroes, writing and the world
Bringing Airboy into the future
He certainly isn’t a character that went without a revival in the 1980s. Chuck Dixon and Tim Truman created a rather amazing series at Eclipse (now being collected by IDW) with art by the likes of Stan Woch, Ben Dunn, Ron Randall and Tom Lyle. But that series didn’t tell the story of the original Airboy.
Animated Heroes!
I often marvel at the number of aging comic fans (much like yours truly) that want to blame the loss of comic readers on the advent of characters in other media forms, whether it be TV, movies or video games. They act like some great generational divide exists where people read comics before it to get superheroes and after it, they just stopped.
I'm proof that such a divide isn't real.