I mean it.
It's called "Mainstream superhero comics need a kick in the butt" by the bloggers at Comics Should Be Good at Comic Book Resources.
Some snippets:
- "Marvel and DC are desperate to sell comics, but they do nothing to make the comics sell better."
- "I still love superhero comics, even though I have lots of problems with them. It seems like superhero comics just aren’t doing what they could, and in a comics world that is losing readership, I wonder why companies aren’t encouraging at least a bit more experimentation with them."
- "There’s a lack of boldness in the way comics are designed, and all of these people are talented enough to do things differently. It’s frustrating that they don’t."
I am reminded of this everytime I watch a new superhero animated series. There are amazing things happening with superheroes displaying feats of power and dynamism in such shows and comics, as a visual medium, could also be doing these things. There is a choreography of panel-to-panel movement that is simply missing from comics, ranging from a lack of tilting camera angles to extremes of focus/perspecitve and more. Comics have become so writer-driven and script-created that the art of visual storytelling and graphical metaphor itself is simply missing. I know these are heavy-handed terms so if there is any interest in explaining these things, I'll do my best.
Until then, go read that other blog. I won't be offended.
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