The Whiplash Decade

The Decade Comic Book Nerds Became Our Cultural Overlords

Why do they have to be such sore winners?

Alex Pappademas
GEN
Published in
11 min readDec 10, 2019

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Illustration: Brennon Leman

This piece is part of the The Whiplash Decade, a package on the wild ride that was the 2010s.

TThe most significant pop-culture story of the decade is superhero culture’s evolution from nerd culture to monoculture…

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Alex Pappademas
GEN
Writer for

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