The Whiplash Decade
The Decade Comic Book Nerds Became Our Cultural Overlords
Why do they have to be such sore winners?
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11 min readDec 10, 2019
This piece is part of the The Whiplash Decade, a package on the wild ride that was the 2010s.
The most significant pop-culture story of the decade is superhero culture’s evolution from nerd culture to monoculture…