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Michael Todd
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You know my love of reading began with comic books and whenever an annual or king-size special came out I was thrilled, but now a young friend of mine who bought the two original X-Men omnibus' informed me he didn't like the silver-age X-Men because "there are too many words". If we have reached the stage where even comic book fans have become too lazy to read what hope is there?
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Don Zomberg
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Depends--is he a regular reader of today's pin-up comics done Bendis/Loeb style, with a bare minimum of text?
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Michael Todd
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| Posted: 09 June 2011 at 7:13am | IP Logged | 3
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Yeah, he was brought up on the newer stuff.
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Michael Todd
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| Posted: 09 June 2011 at 7:36am | IP Logged | 4
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It seems to me that between television shows that fly through the story faster than most commercials and comic books with less text than a pamphlet this younger generation is being raised to have the attention span of a gnat.
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Dave W. Pelleteir
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I'm sorry, I wasn't paying attention, what were you saying? oh, what's that over there...
I know what you mean, even talking to the kids today, they're looking at their I-whatever as you're trying to tell them something...they're not paying any attention, sad commentary on today's youth. I miss the comics I grew up on, today's generation will never experience the feeling of walking into a drug store and buying some great stories and actually care about the characters.
ah, the good old days, I sound like my father,,,,with father's day around the cornier, maybe I'll pick him up some new comics and just sit back and watch his face contort with disgust and bewilderment....
Dave.
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JT Molloy
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I don't like a wall of text or anything, but when entire pages will sometimes be wasted on "um... yeah.", BLECH!
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Joe Hollon
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he didn't like the silver-age X-Men because "there are too many words".
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Funny, that's usually what I think when I get to the Claremont issues.
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Aaron Smith
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It seems to me that between television shows that fly through the story faster than most commercials and comic books with less text than a pamphlet this younger generation is being raised to have the attention span of a gnat. *** It's an odd contradiction that many of today's readers seem to want fewer words and content in each issue, which makes a 22-page comic seem a lot shorter than it did years ago, yet they want the stories themselves to stretch out for months and months. I'd rather have a story that takes one issue and had plenty of word and dialogue (as long as it all serves the needs of the story) and have it actually take more than 5 minutes to read something that I just spent 3 bucks on.
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Don Zomberg
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...the Claremont issues. I didn't read the Phoenix saga as a kid, so it doesn't have much sway over me. The biggest block to my embracing those issues today is the amount of dialogue and descriptive text on the pages.
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Stéphane Garrelie
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To each his own. For me that was one of the main qualities of Claremont's X-Men. But i always liked to read and am more interested in stories than in art.
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John Byrne
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But i always liked to read and am more interested in stories than in art.•• Well, fuck me very much!
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Matt Reed
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What got me through years of Claremont overwriting to the point of absurdity was the art. I didn't think he overwrote too much early in his X-Men run, although with each passing year it got worse and worse, but JB, Paul Smith, JRjr and Marc Silvestri among others made the absurd use of captions and word balloons that took up half a panel tolerable.
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