Multiple Eisner winning writer of Bandette, Bunny Mask, Plants vs. Zombies, the Versus book series, the Mammoth, and more. You can find me at PaulTobin.net
If you asked me, as a creator and a comics historian, if the golden age of comics was the 1940's or the current day, I would sit for a long time staring blankly and thinking.
Case could be made either way.
Reviewing lettered pages for an upcoming project and had one of those beautiful/awful moments where I quite liked the dialogue on a gorgeous splash — but realized it wasn’t necessary. At all.
One of the hardest parts about writing comics is knowing when to do it silently.
Yeah, everything I've researched on her falls into gray lines. Like, probably and maybe and such. She's pretty safe, though, copyright-wise. Like, if somebody like (as you said) Innovation plays with her, whatever. But if somebody did a big budget Torchy movie, it might get sticky.