Fantastic Four #1 Preview and Spoilers

[JKtheMac]

that is dismissive, FWIW

Taking a quote out of context and then negatively commenting is dismissive. I posted two long and detailed thoughts on why I said that and it wasn’t pointed at the individual it was pointed at a large number of people that always complain when they see a cut and paste, even though people have been cutting and pasting since paper was invented.

Call it an intervention. Some people get upset about a technique used in comics, and yet with a little bit of context they don’t need to be upset. Instead they could be smiling and enjoying the technique. If the art repeat is blatantly time and money saving people might have a point, but usually the artist has made a choice to repeat a panel based on their craft and their knowledge of how visual storytelling works.

There are good reasons to use the repeat panel here. If it was just deleted and voiceover used, it wouldn’t have worked as well or told the story as effectively. If the newsreader had changed every panel it would have drawn our eye and distracted from the story. Part of the story would have been about the newsreader herself, because humans responded to face cues readily. Visual story-telling is a compromise crafted and honed by experience.