Jim Shooter Isn’t Happy with Current Marvel Comics

[WebLurker]

Yeah no one ever seems to realize that when they complain about thought bubbles. There is zero difference between them and what they so no except there is no little bubbles coming off the persons head.

IMHO, the boxes are less obtrusive to the story. They also obscure less of the artwork. Bubbles can make more much more crowded panels and more cluttered layouts.

[CentralPower]

Sometimes it does... Sometimes it fails epically. Sometimes you have a bunch of people arguing over what happened on the page and disagreeing what the story was about.

And, some of that is poor trade-craft by the artists.

But, some of it is fans being unable to accept that a modern creative team is ignoring a "classic" element from the Silver Age.

IMHO, the boxes are less obtrusive to the story. They also obscure less of the artwork. Bubbles can make more much more crowded panels and more cluttered layouts.

Exactly. The cleaner layouts do not excuse bad writing. But, the sort of writing that tends to coincide with bubbles also tends to be worse.

[cranger]

And, some of that is poor trade-craft by the artists.

But, some of it is fans being unable to accept that a modern creative team is ignoring a "classic" element from the Silver Age.




Exactly. The cleaner layouts do not excuse bad writing. But, the sort of writing that tends to coincide with bubbles also tends to be worse.

Yeah, it seems that it comes down to "bad writing/art" either way you look at it. It is like anything else unique to comics, like sound effects and panel layouts. All of it can be good or bad depending on if the person creating it does it well or poorly. On the flip side, a person can like or dislike the use, or lack thereof, of any of these tools without their preference needing to be validated as the correct choice.