Originally Posted by
Revolutionary_Jack
Third person narration has generally phased out of comics both Marvel and DC, and even Independent comics. Alan Moore would sooner vote Conservative than march to the tune of DC and Marvel Editorial post-80s, but his PROVIDENCE doesn't have any of that, nor does League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
The phasing out of third-person narration can be credited to the influence of Moore. THE KILLING JOKE -- no third person narration. WATCHMEN - none. In Spider-Man, go back to Kraven's Last Hunt all narrated by four different characters but no third-person -- Kraven, Peter, MJ, Vermin. Moore introduced diegetic narration or character narration. He introduced novelistic and cinematic elements to comics. I mean there's the famous fact that The Killing Joke never once refers to Batman and Joker by their names.
I agree that we should bring back third-person narration, and also thought bubbles (The Master Planner Saga would never work without the incredible use of thought bubbles in that comic), but modern comics storytelling across the board has avoided it for thirty years and let's not credit Quesada for something he neither had the talent or skill to actually ever be capable of doing.