lol that's 40 years of comics hon.

Well, I gotta get started then :P

then you'll have to go to the comic book store. they know best.

Comic book store? What is this magical thing of which you speak?

Seriously, the city in which I live (around 52,000 people) does not have a comic or gaming store. Nor does it have a video game arcade (unless you count a few machines in a part of the cinema).

well I have a comic and P&P game store in the nearest bigger town. I don't live in the US so that is more akward then ever.

I live in New Plymouth, in New Zealand. Probably the nearest comic/gaming store would possibly be in Whanganui, about two hours' drive away, or in Hamilton, three hours' drive away. The upside about not being in Hamilton any more is that I'm not spending lots of money on the Animal Kaiser machines.

ok. well I tend not to spend much on games. Furoticon being the largest thing i have spent money on.

Fourth years??? You want to push that to eighty or ninety years... Superheros go back a very long time.

yeah but they become more consistent in the late sixties. ie they have same traints every time you see them and not 20 versions.

Ohhh my gosh, that's... that's a rough question. Generally speaking, today's comic movies are being made by people who grew up on 80's comics, which is the "Modern Age". (I know, they're old now, but it went Golden Age, Silver Age, Modern Age, et cetera as far as names went.) The 80's were when comics became accepted as an adult pasttime and when some of the best character revamps originated. What you see now is mid to late 80's sensibilities combined with more recent storylines and redesigns and a more mature readership.

If it was written in the '90s, burn it with fire. That's when everyone started thinking that heroes with guns, swords and claws who regenerated and murdered everyone were cool. Artists who couldn't write were hired to write because they were popular, even though the most popular of them couldn't draw either *coughcoughRobLiefeldcoughToddMacFarlanecough*

I can make a list of DC and Marvel comics to check out from way back when, but I don't know where to find scans of them. As far as viewing goes, look at Batman:The Animated Series, Superman: The Animated Series, Static Shock (optional, aimed at a younger audience at first but it matured), Batman Beyond (optional), Justice League, and Young Justice, in that order. When Batman TAS came out, it was the beginning of a really good period of comic-based animation, and they've basically been building on the same characters since then. For instance, Static and the older Batman and his protege from Batman Beyond have appeared in Justice League, and Static, Batman and Superman have all been in each other's shows and have a history. If you have to narrow down your list, watch Justice League and then Young Justice. Those two are not really optional. They are awesome, and they should all be on YouTube. The only downside is that you might have to do research now and then to know who supporting characters and minor heroes are, because they don't always explain it during an episode.

There are a lot of straight-to-video movies also, but the quality is all over the place. Watch Ultimate Avengers 1 and 2 (it's an alternate universe though), Young Avengers (optional, kinda cool), Superman/Batman:Apocalypse and other pairups, and search IMDB for Justice League, Supes, Green Lantern (he has a good animated movie) and Thor (I think he has a movie of his own and one along with Hulk). Superman/Captain Marvel is decent. You'll have to watch Justice League to see much Flash; he has some great moments and one really, truly outstanding episode that you will be happy you watched.

Hope this helps, Silver!

On another note... get on messenger moar!

To find the comics in their glory talk to your local comic book store. As far as scans and such Kindle and other ereaders have a surprising list.

Also going to the series website such as marvel.com can yield another shocking find such as
http://marvel.com/digital_comics/list?isFree=1

But that's all I can think of