tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7346198.post111565670486992052..comments2023-09-13T06:04:48.411-07:00Comments on <b>News For Real</b>: May7-8, 2005Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10782724774592709052noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7346198.post-1118384920014472182005-06-09T23:28:00.000-07:002005-06-09T23:28:00.000-07:00Hail Eris!Damn. It.SnarkyHail Eris!<BR/><BR/>Damn. It.<BR/><BR/>SnarkyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7346198.post-1118384863055725652005-06-09T23:27:00.000-07:002005-06-09T23:27:00.000-07:00Hail Eris!He disappeared for a minute and returned...Hail Eris!<BR/><BR/><I>He disappeared for a minute and returned. “This is what I am talking about,” he said, slapping a booklet-sized item down in front of me. “This is how you tell a story visually.”<BR/><BR/>It was a comic book.</I><BR/><BR/>Hey, wait a minute, have you ever <I>read</I> a comic book? The bad ones (and there are tonnes, I freely admit that) are crap as storytelling, but the good ones, such as Spider-Man, the X-Men (particularly the Claremont-era), are <I>brilliant</I>. They don't just "tell stories", they have plots, themes, pathos, poetry -- they're <I>art</I>, and the pictures have even more to say than the words, which usually need to be concise, because there are only so many pages to a comic, and a fair number need to be filled with ads so the publishers can keep making them (hence the attitudes of the afore-mentioned kids -- comic-book editors are behind those attitudes, which were (partly?) driven by concerns of profit). As Sturgeon said, 90% of *everything* is crap, which includes 90% of everything published in The Atlantic, as well as in comics...<BR/><BR/>SnarkyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com