Re:Back in the old days...
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Voice Of The Fire
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What a baseless, generic, self-indulgent crock. You're expressing a judgement based on labels and I strongly disagree.
Do you invalidate cinema and television in comparison with radio? Do you prefer reading scripts to attending plays?
The comic vernacular is no more monolithic than any visual medium. The level of quality follows Sturgeon's Law, much as every creative discipline tends to.
That means that there's a lot of crap (98 percent if I remember correctly) and some stunning, original, compelling fiction that can't be told as effectively in any other medium.
If you don't like comics, that's your choice. To condemn them for being less than prose fiction when they are simply different is naive, rather shallow and highly unimaginative.
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What a baseless, generic, self-indulgent crock. You're expressing a judgement based on labels and I strongly disagree.
Do you invalidate cinema and television in comparison with radio? Do you prefer reading scripts to attending plays?
The comic vernacular is no more monolithic than any visual medium. The level of quality follows Sturgeon's Law, much as every creative discipline tends to.
That means that there's a lot of crap (98 percent if I remember correctly) and some stunning, original, compelling fiction that can't be told as effectively in any other medium.
If you don't like comics, that's your choice. To condemn them for being less than prose fiction when they are simply different is naive, rather shallow and highly unimaginative.