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Roygbiv666:
--- Quote from: John C on June 29, 2011, 03:36:07 PM ---It'd be like saying that owning a car means that you should cut off your legs, since driving should be able to replace walking. Yes, but...
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Done and done. Wait ...
paw broon:
"I prefer to get my money's worth - the more words, the longer it takes to read!" Roygbiv666.
Bang on.
And as Phil points out about word free Toth pages, can I also remind you of the excellent Ragman story (#3?) by Joe Kubert? A lovely wee gem of a story. Didn't Eisner do the same on The Spirit? Because there is a Corto Maltese wordless by Hugo Pratt in the Les Celtiques collection with the most amazing action and atmosphere panels. If you want to find this, be aware that the recent, coloured, Italian hardback omits this story)
All those full/double page illos. which seem to do nothing to advance the story, leave me cold. In our Thriller Picture Libraries from all those years ago, there was a lot of dialogue, occasionally overwhelming the panel, as we see in the E.C. above, but on the whole those TPL's and Detective Picture Libraries, were a great, long read and good value - much as older American comics were. You couldn't plough through them in 10 - 15 mins. as you can with much of todays offerings.
josemas:
I tend to think that manga- especially by its influence on Frank Miller, who introduced a number of its storytelling techniques to American comics, has played an part in the way American comic story-lines tend to run longer now and have fewer words per page.
Best
Joe
narfstar:
Manga has surely affected US comics. Manga can make a story drag on forever. I started reading Love Hina and stopped around volume 3 because it was so little story and so much repetition. 14 two hundred page volumes for one little love story is unreasonable. It is all about the art.
paw broon:
Despite not liking the look of a lot of manga, I felt I had to try it and I did read a few vols of a couple of the popular titles. But to no avail. Apart from Mai the Psychic Girl, I've found nothing to get enthusiastic about. My wife and I holiday in Europe a lot and I always find comic shops to visit and even in the most eurocomic dedicated stores, you find manga, quite a lot of it too. The shop in Hoorn, Netherlands is a prime example with a lovely, big choice of g.n.'s, collectors item old Dutch comics, lots of translated American collections and a whole manga section. Kids seem to love it.
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