If anyone still disagrees with my labelling this the Dark Age of comics...

THE DARK AGE: Grim, Great and Gimmicky Post-Modern Comics, by Jack C. Harris(exerpted on google books)

...you can always debate the issue with editor Jack C. Harris. In addition to others I've cited, including Joe Kubert, Alex Toth, Paul Smith, Keith Giffen, and centerpieces of the dark 1985-forward era, Alan Moore and Grant Morrison.

Sorry to interrupt the gay jokes. Carry on.