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Perhaps we should just stop having comics. That picture and word thing is overdone!
Y'all are no fun. "It's a strange world..." has shown up in 'Planetary' maybe three times, total, and it's the series' slogan.
Diaries as cliche and unusable in some sense implies that first person narration should be killed, too, which is kinda silly. No first person narrative, no internal monologue... why don't we just cut out the last two centuries of writing-development, avoid realistic dialogue of any sort, and never have more than a literal meaning to anything said, only spoken by characters who absolutely know themselves and the whole situation, so never are blind to a thing.
No silent panels? No hero-looks-damn-cool shots? No big-reveal last page splash? Gee, there's Xorneto's big 'Chuck, you're fucked' page gone. There's the better bits of the Waid/Garney 'Captain America' gone. There's everything from 'Sin City' to 'Red' to shitloads of manga gone. Without gaining anything.
No bars? The hell? Many people spend an inordinate amount of time in bars, clubs, or other establishments where one can be subjected to alcohol, some manner of food, and bad pick up lines. That's just life.
No teleporting is a big step away from tech that's already established for Marvel, DC, the Wildstorm Universe, et cetera. To place a ban on it would be the same as placing a ban on cars. It might have its benefits, but when you need to get somewhere quick...
... and, it prevents the weird travel glitches where the hero mysteriously makes it miles and miles in seconds and all.
Now, unreadable fonts, "It tickles" and similar cliche lines, the Earth-saves-whole-universe deal, and the Claremontian explain-yerself dialogue... those can all go away. They're actually cutting into things, actual detriments to communication and flow. Terms like 'unreadable' and 'uncomfortable' and 'clumsily' are the things I can agree with, but then, that's just saying 'try to be clear and not sound stupid,' which should be the point, anyway.
A bar, is just a setting. Like a church, a zoo, or the skull of a giant monkey, it's just a setting. Anything can be done with it, and some of it might be interesting.
The only real rule I think ought to be put into place is: Don't do it unless it's going to be interesting or relevant. Unless you have something to say and a reason to say it, it's probably best for us all, if the pen goes down, the words don't come, and the issue never hits the stands.
But then we couldn't have quite so many X-spin-offs and what would the world be like without those?
And, for the hell of it: "Blue %$&@*#ing Blazes!" sayeth Ubers the Argonian to the Large Green Cheddar! in a curvy font, with big trademarked logos instead of just names. Before The Dark God kills them. In a dark future. With choppy narration. In a diary. Full of unending sexual tension. |
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