5 Great Comics That Will NEVER Happen Again

The term "lightning in a bottle" applies to few things as perfectly as it does to comic books. Most comic books are products that could only have been made in the time period that they were. Superman, and everything about him as a character, could only have been made by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster at the time that they created him.

Likewise, there have been countless other comic books made since then that could not have been made a single moment before or after.

This doesn't mean they aren't timeless, but as much as storytelling snobs would love to bloviate to the contrary, the outside world around you will always play a part in the stories you tell and how you tell them.

These five comics were made precisely when they needed to be made, and thus could not have been produced before, and certainly couldn't have been made today.

Lightning doesn't strike the same place twice, and it's even harder to get it in a bottle. Don't count on seeing these five comic stories replicated the same way twice.

Kingdom Come came out in the midst of the mid-nineties speculator boom. Which means it came out in the midst of dark gritty anti-heroes taking up every nook and cranny of the comic industry thanks to new kids on the block Image Comics and their golden boy Spawn.

As anyone who has read this story can tell you, Kingdom Come had a lot to say about this particular trend.

The reason that we're never getting anything like this again is very simple, and it's because the comic industry is nothing like how it was in the nineties. The landscape has changed so drastically that there's simply no reason to make a story quite like this again.

As such, don't expect this to be adapted into a movie either, or if it is, to not have the same impact as it used to, on account of things just not being the same as they once were.