And another under-the-radar homosexual lifestyle sold and advocated to our precious little kiddies. I thought we’d have a pause after Twilight.
Raptors (the dinosaurs) will replace zombies as the menace that we stay continually armed against.
I am going to marry this thread!
I’m not sure if superheroes count, seeing as they’re essentially a grab bag of everything else: Iron Man’s basically a cyborg, Batman’s a thinly veiled ninja, Superman is of course an alien, Captain America is (was?) a science experiment… Y’all can fill in the rest.
Highwaymen (and women?) are already getting there to a certain extent, as is Victorian everything. I’m sick to death of both, but I suppose the 14 year old romance junkies aren’t. Secret societies and zombie-esque mutant things seem to be enjoying a resurgence right now, too.
Dragon-people haven’t gotten any real action yet, have they? Maybe they’re too similar to werewolves, but seeing as vampires seem to have a new tag teamer in fae/fairies/fair folk/etc, and I agree with Balance that some sort of warrior/ninja addition would revitalize werewolves, maybe aliens vs. dragon-people?
Aliens vs. ninjas, has that been done?
XKCD already does this to some extent.
I like raptors, but I’d like to see them stay out of the pop culture limelight until the target audience is too young to remember when they weren’t feathered. Maybe a decade from now they can be popular again.
Nah, Iron Man’s a guy in power armor. Totally different from a cyborg. For a cyborg superhero, your go-to guy is (oddly enough) Cyborg.
Anyway, my selection for next trend in three words: Morlocks morlocks morlocks!
That depends. Does comic-Iron Man have the same cardiac-surgeon’s-wet-dream plug-in thing that the Iron Man of that movie I vague remember does?
Prophets and Messiahs will be pulling in the dough and gathering the fans. Deities will do even better.
Depression-Era Guys… everything from Paper Moon grifters to The Waltons
Ostrogoths!
I saw a spoof of the “Twilight” books somewhere where a beautiful but shy highschool girl must deal with her budding romantic feeling for the strange looking hispanic boy in her class with a strange fixation on goats.
Steampunk cowboys… or any sort of apocalyptic (think Fallout 3?) survivors.
As long as it’s steampunk.
Bacteria!
You joke but Amish romances were pretty hot in books for a while.
that ticks me off.
The obvious new schtick is Jews vs. Cossacks!
Bleymes: they’ve got to get ahead somehow!
Work gettin’ ya down, Ninj?
I’m betting Scotsmen!
(crosses fingers and wishes real hard)
Will they be teaming up with samurai?
I’m backing skeletons. GO SKELLINGTONS!