Spider-Man One More Day Spoilers

[palitoy]

Jackpot?

[Earth 2 Chris]

So Marvel is stealing old Dallas Plot lines. Unbelievable.

I can see it now. Peter wakes up, goes into the bathroom to find MJ in the shower.

"Face it Tiger, you hit the jackpot last night. Now I'll get my things and leave."

Groan.

Chris

[The Bat]

I think Our Generation(and I may be wrong)...are the Bulk of the Comic Book Audience. I think if Comic Books didn't evolve as I grew up...I wouldn't still be reading Them. Remember in the 60's, when Doc Doom use to spout lines like "It was You who sought to destroy Me...but in the end, it is I who will destroy You!" Nowadays...that just doesn't cut it.

[ctc]

>I think Our Generation(and I may be wrong)...are the Bulk of the Comic Book Audience.

Depends how you define "comics." I don't think we're the ones buying all them Archie comics; and other than a few of us, we're probably not the major market for Shonen Jump.

>I think if Comic Books didn't evolve as I grew up...I wouldn't still be reading Them.

But.... DID they evolve? Or have comics (by which I suspect you mean the big two and a half) been going around in circles? Even the BEST Marvel and DC stories seem really... watered down compared to the independants from the same eras. And comics from Japan and Europe seem to have maintained much more concise, inventive and solid stories for decades.

>Remember in the 60's, when Doc Doom use to spout lines like "It was You who sought to destroy Me...but in the end, it is I who will destroy You!" Nowadays...that just doesn't cut it

I dunno.... a lot of the dialogue is still stilted and superfluous. Sure, they don't speak in that early Marvel pseudo-old English any more; but how much current dialogue is really neccesary, and how much of it becomes crutchwork for poor visual storytelling? And how much is just bad? A few years back a friend showed me an Image comic wherein EVERY LINE was a derivation of "I'm angry!"

*shudder*

Don C.

[The Bat]

On come'on ctc....You have to admit the writing has greatly improve, since the REALLY early Days of Superhero Coimics.

[ctc]

>You have to admit the writing has greatly improve, since the REALLY early Days of Superhero Coimics.

Well.... it sorta comes and goes. Back int he EARLIEST days of comics there was a tendency to write dialogue the way people ACTUALLY talked, but without punctuation. (Windsor McCay was bad for this...) By the 40's, when superheroes first hit, they wrote really stiffly. It seemed like there was competition amongst the writers to create the wordiest AND most obscure sentence. By the 50's most dialogue went the OTHER way; proper English to the point of almost parodying how people really talk. 60's? Stan Lee's pseudo-Shakespearian dialogue. By the 70's you had two schools of comic dialogue thought: the secondary companies who wrote with a weird combo of actual speech and proper English; and the Superhero pseudo-real speech but LOTS of it technique. (Wherein characters would expose HUGE amounts of exposition, apparently BETWEEN PUNCHES!) 80's saw a splintering into LOTS of techniques; until the "I'm ANGRY!!!!" 90's. Nowadays you get a few different techniques; I've seen a fair bit of 70's super-exposition, and a lot of folks using the Japanese minimalist dialogue. Tragicly a lot of the people using the Japanese technique ALSO use the weird jerkiness that a lot of Japanese dialogue has. That jerkiness is the result of ideas that don't neccessarily translate so well. (They don't "sound" like that in Japanese.) I'm waiting for the guy who combines the two.

Don C.