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Superfolks is a book by one Robert Mayer, and it has the deepest blackness of the dark age in its veins, ju listen to how it starts out:
"There were no more heros.
Kennedy was dead, shot by an assassin in Dallas.
Batman and Robin were dead, killed when the batmobile slammed into a bus carrying black children to school in the suburbs.
Superman was missing, presumed dead,after a Kryptonite meteor fell on Metropolis.
The Marvel family was dead; struck down by lightning.
The Lone Ranger was dead; found with an arrow in his back after Tonto returned from a Red Power conference at Wounded Knee."
This man even had Snoopy get shot down by the Red Baron. Heartless!

Still, as I read on, I found so much in it that I could love also...because he did not just import DC heros into his pocket-dimof paper, but he brought personalities as well(like Alan Moore's Top Ten: The Fourty-Niners)

Anne Landers and Abby complaign about all their problems. Peter Pan runs a gay bar called Tinkerbelle's. Hironimous Bosch somehow ened up in Heaven, alongside George Washington and Abe Lincoln. There is a church of America the Divine.

It is an amazing feate...putting everything into such a small encolsure and having them stay the same as they always have been&be diffferent and new enough to entertain

he pulled it off, i'd say.


edit-i just remembered a connection that i made while reading. Mood Indigo was the basic plot of the book(and i will not go into more detail here, so you will just have to read it to know what i am writing about,nya)
and in gaiman's Books of Magic, Mr. E was singing about a mood indigo while he and Tim Hunter(DC's answer to Harry Potter)were entering the 'blue shift' far away near the end of time when the universe was starting to curl up in on itself so it could die...
this book seems to have had an effect on Kurt Busak's Astro City...so maybie it infuenced other things as well?