thinking about the more psychological trauma-themed grimdark antiheroes of darker 90s comics

The Crow was almost like trauma as empowering you with a sense of purpose, but it was always a ‘70s rape-revenge plot in goth makeup and that fit with this early-90s romance of the broken – grunge, “heroin chic”, the normalization of “depression” now we had Prozac

John Constantine they kept piling things onto only to suddenly clear out in some sort of breakthrough, because there wasn’t anywhere else to go with it

This is distinct from the issue I think the Walking Dead comics inherited from Preacher, where you’re not really sure how to develop your characters so you just end up piling physical mutilations on them