He not only stole it, but he shredded a pipeline.  Cowabunga, dude!

If that book was created using the Marvel method, and the artist left the writer one panel to introduce every Transformer shown there, he did stitch him up 😅

The influence of movies, rather than literature, especially with guys like Bendis, who was enamored of David Mamet and his dialogue, and Quentin Tarantino and his ilk.

In some TV shows, such as detective shows, the screen shows displays of characters’ text messages, and I feel it’s being overdone a tad. Everyone’s mileage will vary, of course.

I mean, old shows couldn’t do that, so, yes, we’d get some exposition or something, but I don’t think it’s particularly interesting to keep seeing characters’ text message exchanges.

That would sound like him, true! I just read a Marvel Team-Up issue featuring Spidey and Woodgod; the latter refers to any unpleasant emotion or hurtful reality as "Scream", which is quite appropriate for a creature who's basically a child in a satyr's body. There was no need to explain the concept, as the context madeit pretty clear; nevertheless, in the letters page, Jim made Bill Mantlo go into details in case a reader was confused. But I would prefer that bit of exposition in the LOC any day over seeing it overtake the dialog!

"Phew, that was a close call, Saturn Girl! Thankfully your telepathy, shared by all Titan-born people, managed to stop this wooden minion of Mordru!"

"You're right, Cosmic Boy! Your own Braalian magnetic powers would have been ineffectual against a magical creature made of wood, since wood is non-magnetic!"

"The same holds true for me, Superboy, since my Kryptonian invulnerability does not extend to magic. What about you, Alan Scott? You who came from Earth-2 in the distant past?"

"My ring is magical in nature so that part would not be a problem, but I can't deal with wood either. However, I could handle something yellow, unlike the Earth-1 Green Lantern, unless it was yellow wood."

"I am Groot".

Hey, y'know what? I'm going to defend that Transformers page. Yes, by typical comics story standards, that overload of dialog is awful. But a large part of the target audience would have eaten it up. Younger kids love accumulating a taxonomy on their pet subject. In my day, it was dinosaurs and horses. For later generations, the G.I. Joe roster, the Pokémon, and yes, the Transformers fleet. For that audience, this page was like getting to read the backs of ten toy card backs defining the robots and their personalities and styles of speech. It might have been neater to place all of them on individual informational pin-up pages, but I think most Transformers readers didn't object to getting that all rammed into a single comics page. They wouldn't have cared that the pace of the story ground to a halt, and most of them wouldn't have skipped over a single balloon to get on with the story (which is more than I can say for me reading a Stan Lee-scripted Sgt. Fury page!).