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Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2014 14:24:33 GMT -5
A customer of ours commented that although he likes modern comics, most of them can be read in 5-6 minutes. I'm talking about your average 36 pg book.
That being said (and a fairly legit observation), what gets your vote for the most 'wordy' comic ever? I'm referring to panel after panel of lengthy word balloons followed by more subtext.
I think this is what turns me of from reading Watchmen.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Sept 27, 2014 14:30:17 GMT -5
It was almost certainly written by Don McGregor.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Sept 27, 2014 14:36:18 GMT -5
EC comics got pretty verbose time to time but from what I recall Lev Gleason comics from the late 40s to early 50s were word-a-thons. Things like Crime Does Not Pay and the Original Daredevil comic could take over an hour to read. But they were good and thats what counts  |
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Post by Pharozonk on Sept 27, 2014 14:39:26 GMT -5
Chris Claremont's X-Men run was pretty verbose.
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Post by Prince Hal on Sept 27, 2014 15:37:34 GMT -5
It was almost certainly written by Don McGregor. The first one who came to mind. Roy Thomas rarely left a thought unexpressed. EC comics were narration-heavy in general. And it can be murder wading through many a Richard Hughes ACG story, too. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Sept 27, 2014 15:43:23 GMT -5
McGregor jumped to mind because I'd recently been looking through some issues of Jungle Action. Great looking Billy Graham art that you can almost see through the word balloons and text boxes.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2014 15:45:32 GMT -5
Bendis probably has something in the running.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Sept 27, 2014 17:18:38 GMT -5
It was almost certainly written by Don McGregor. You beat me to it. There were so many words in the last two pages of the original Panther's rage storyline that there was barely any room to show the villain finally be defeated! That being said, I usually prefer a writer who has too much to say to one who'll be happy to fill his twenty-two pages with a prolonged fight and a few cheesy one-liners. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2014 17:29:13 GMT -5
Bendis probably has something in the running.  |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Sept 27, 2014 17:30:12 GMT -5
Bendis probably has something in the running. Bendis throws in so much dialogue that ultimately says nothing "Man I could go for a cheeseburger" "You can go for a cheeseburger?" "I can certainly go for a cheeseburger" "Why don't you go for a cheeseburger?" "Its not my turn to go for a cheeseburger" "We take turns going for cheesburgers?" "Of course, you don't want everyone going for cheeseburgers at the same time" Who's turn is it to go for cheeseburgers?" "I thought it was you're turn to go for a cheeseburger" "Then why didn't you just come out and ask me to go get a cheeseburger?" "Because Bendis doesn't write things that way" |
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Post by Hoosier X on Sept 27, 2014 17:33:22 GMT -5
That being said, I usually prefer a writer who has too much to say to one who'll be happy to fill his twenty-two pages with a prolonged fight and a few cheesy one-liners. Amen to that! |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Sept 27, 2014 17:46:18 GMT -5
Bendis probably has something in the running. Bendis throws in so much dialogue that ultimately says nothing "Man I could go for a cheeseburger" "You can go for a cheeseburger?" "I can certainly go for a cheeseburger" "Why don't you go for a cheeseburger?" "Its not my turn to go for a cheeseburger" "We take turns going for cheesburgers?" "Of course, you don't want everyone going for cheeseburgers at the same time" Who's turn is it to go for cheeseburgers?" "I thought it was you're turn to go for a cheeseburger" "Then why didn't you just come out and ask me to go get a cheeseburger?" "Because Bendis doesn't write things that way" this would be quite fitting in a Quentin Tarentino movie. |
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Post by foxley on Sept 27, 2014 17:48:24 GMT -5
Alan Moore would have to rate pretty highly.
From Hell is pretty densely packed, and Promethea seemed to consist of nothing but page after page of incomprehensible faux-philosophic rambling.
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Post by benday-dot on Sept 27, 2014 17:52:44 GMT -5
EC comics were narration-heavy in general. Indeed. Al Williamson's gorgeous art barely has room to breathe in this this vortex of text from the classic "Sound of Thunder" from Weird Science Fantasy #25  |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2014 21:51:22 GMT -5
Thieves And Kings #1 is about half prose.
There's an all prose issue of Deadworld.
Sometimes Strangers In Paradise will go all prose for a handful of pages. For some reason I have a feeling Cerebus does on occasion as well, but I'm not 100% sure.
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