1) Stuff I completely don't see coming.
I'm a novelty freak. I want to see stuff COMPLETELY different than I saw before.

Alternate answer: Pirates vs. dinosaurs.

2) If (Insert Artist or writer A) isn't an answer than dunno. I can't think of anything that wouldn't be cool in the right hands.
MarkAndrew | Homepage | 06.17.07 - 1:49 am | #

1 Humor.

2 Resurrections.
Hegs | Email | Homepage | 06.17.07 - 2:31 am | #

ANSWERS TO LIEU RAI A:

1)would like to see -
Humor.


2)would never like to see-
Motion Picture Actor and Actress Photo Reference.
M. A. Masterson | Email | Homepage | 06.17.07 - 2:44 am | #

1. Writers honoring the stories and characters that came before them.

2. Crossovers that don't end.
NeverAsk | 06.17.07 - 2:56 am | #

First, I would like to see greater diversity in comics - both in terms of style and in terms of creators.

(And I don't like manga/anime - I think there's plenty of room for other styles. I'm probably the least educated on my comic options, so I'm always more than willing to accept recommendations)

And second, no more universe-shattering, massive continuity crossovers in superhero comic books. Give us some breathing room, and let the reader enjoy some regular adventures *before* it all goes to heck.
Gordon | Email | Homepage | 06.17.07 - 4:47 am | #

1. Panels per page. On the other hand, that's sort of like saying I want more pages, so you probably wouldn't like that answer. So: attention to panel placement.

2. Those panels where the "camera" is directly below some girl's butt looking up. They're surprisingly common.
Mory Buckman | Email | Homepage | 06.17.07 - 5:19 am | #

1-Self-contained series (i.e. that might interact with elements of the shared universe, but doesn't cater to extra-series events)

2-Sadism (i.e. that oh-so-popular-right-now dismemberment)

But I'm sure you could have asked for a top 5 in each category and gotten answers.
Siskoid | Email | Homepage | 06.17.07 - 5:27 am | #

1. Better writing.

2. Crossovers with comics I have no desire to ever read.
Vincent J. Murphy | Email | Homepage | 06.17.07 - 5:36 am | #

1. Less improbable anatomy, particularly on female characters. Give me superheroines with muscle tone, damnit!

2. Less crossovers & tie-ins to big events. Just let the books stand on their own for a few issues. Teen Titans is one that's suffered dreadfully from this Big Event malady, and it makes me sad, because I used to love it.

3. More fun! At least, in comics that should be fun. (Batman can still angst if he wants.)
Laurie | Email | 06.17.07 - 7:31 am | #

1) Quirky super-hero series that exist in the overall company universe, but don't require reading any other maagzine to follow(although appearances outside the title in mega-events are OK).

1A) The Adventures of The Wacky Whirly Bat ongoing series.

2) DC let the JLA be anything other than a book that attempts to be the flagship.

2A) Iron Man as a villain
2)
H | Email | Homepage | 06.17.07 - 7:31 am | #

1) I'd like to see more hope.

2) I could do without seeing heroes gunned down in graphic detail (Blue Beetle, Black Goliath, Captain America, etc. etc.)
Jason | Email | 06.17.07 - 7:57 am | #

I can't remember if I'm with Devon or Scipio on this, but I would like to see more Vikings in ALL-OUT WAR. They wouldn't even have to be Viking *Commandos* to keep me satisfied, just plain ol' Vikings.

But with a sense of humor.
Ron | Email | Homepage | 06.17.07 - 8:21 am | #

I would like to see less "writing for the trade". I know that almost every major publisher requires most stories to follow a 4 to 6 issue story format so it will fit nicely in trade paperback format. I also realize this is the guarantee to getting the material in major book stores. However, I would love to see the editors get the focus back to issue by issue story telling with long drawn out back stories and immediate satisfaction self contained issues. I know there are comics that fit this definition, but they are currently the minority.

I never want to see the major crossover event again. I thought when this died 7 to 8 years ago we saw the end for a long, long, LONG time. NOPE! They are back with a vengeance and began pissing me off from day one.
Comic Bob | 06.17.07 - 8:46 am | #

More of: The sort of crazy, creator-centric innovation we saw around 1997-2002.

Less of: Relentless driving toward the 1970s as some sort of golden age that all superhero comics should try to revive.
Derek Blake Haas | 06.17.07 - 9:48 am | #

1. asskickings without exposition.

2. exposition without asskickings
milos | Homepage | 06.17.07 - 9:52 am | #

1. Stand alone stories that still operate within the continuity of the respective universe.

2a. All-encompassing crossovers and
2b. Sadism and sexualized violence.

-- SCAM
so-called "Austin Mayor" | Email | Homepage | 06.17.07 - 10:51 am | #

1. Wonder

2. Woe
Ian Brill | Email | Homepage | 06.17.07 - 10:57 am | #

1. Fun. Avengers turning into M.O.D.A.K.s, the little quotes in 'The Atom', All-Star Superman saving Luther for 32 pages while still pretending to be bumbling Clark. I like to be in a good mode after I read my comics.

2. Rape. Seriously, I never want to see another character get raped again ever.
Shon | 06.17.07 - 11:38 am | #

1- Let's see... I would like to see more of a focus on fun at the major publishers, especially at Marvel. With too much of a focus on paralleling real world events, comics stray away from what they should be: escapist literature. I read comics so I don't have to think about the real world all the time. By having it shoved in my face by every book out there, reading comics becomes a chore.

2- OK I know that comics is an advertisement-driven media, but lately, all the big publisher books feel like they are half-story and half-ads. Like, here's one or two pages of story and three pages of ads. It breaks up the pacing and just feels really tacky. And even though I am DC junkie, they are especially bad at this. I don't really want to pay $3 for 14 pages of story and 12 pages of ads. It is unrealistic to say I don't want ads in comics ever again. Let's go with... I never want to see this level of blatant panhandling again. Try to ease off the throttle.
FxHx | Email | Homepage | 06.17.07 - 11:42 am | #

1)Swamp Thing vs. Hellboy

2) Reed Richards as a villian.
Anonymous | 06.17.07 - 11:44 am | #

imagination

lengthy crossovers, which, among other things tend to strip the characters of their usual nature
rog | Email | Homepage | 06.17.07 - 11:47 am | #

To FxHx:
See, I desperately want to avoid escapism. The world is a great place, and people are wonderful. I don't want something that tries to help me avoid the world; I want things that provide new perspective on or deepen my understanding of it, even if from fantastical angles.
Derek Blake Haas | 06.17.07 - 11:59 am | #

1. I'd like to condensed storytelling so that a plot can get resolved in less than six issues. I want authors to stop writing for the trades.

1a. I'd also like to see consequences and ramiflications that carry. Clone Thor killed Black Goliath, but neither Clor nor Pym was charged with murder of held accountable. Why not?

2. I'm tired of bad writing, stereotypes, mechanics that make no sense. I'm tired of plot-hammering, characters with a forty-year tradition acting suddenly wildly out of character for no reason. I'm tired of sloppy retcons.

Mostly though I'm tired of books with good continuing stories being thrown off track by editorial fiats to join in the latest dumb crossover.
Poormojo | Email | Homepage | 06.17.07 - 12:59 pm | #

Derek,
I really don't mind symbolism and thought-provoking stories to help enhance life. Yes the world is ultimately a good place. In my opinion, though, the pendulum is too far in the wrong direction. Sometimes, all I want is big dumb punch-'em-up stories where I can turn off my train off the rails brain. Take Daredevil, for example. Dark comics that have some thought behind them. Yet, none of the stories have drawn from real life and we can still learn from them. Something like the current run of X-Factor has many parallels to modern life, yet balances that with heroes punching villains in the face.

I think that is why I like Fables so much. It's not necessarily escapist, but the seriousness of the story is highlighted by the occasional silliness.

I think maybe I am just getting crotchety in my old age. It's not the world I want to avoid; it is bad comics. Escapist does not have to mean low-brow.
FxHx | Email | Homepage | 06.17.07 - 1:44 pm | #

I'm going to quote Casanova #2, which pretty well sums up my opinion:

"The last comic I read, there was a lot of rape and crying. Kinda harshed by boner for fun, you know?"
ignatiusmonkey | 06.17.07 - 2:11 pm | #

1. the question
2. the punishers arms get any bigger
ryan | 06.17.07 - 3:02 pm | #

1. Tighter writing. While I don't mind "writing for the trade", I really hate it when the writer strrrrrrretches out the story to fill up 6 issues. Do we need 3-4 splash pages per comic? Or a comic filled with pages of one way phone conversations? Or, my favorite, characters having stunted, drawn out conversations such as: panel one- "Well, I..." panel two - "but you..." and so on just to take up space. It's ridiculous and a waste of my $3.00.

2. No more hiring "Superstars" who can't get the job done in a timely manner. One such artist indignantly retorted recently that "quality takes time". True, but that same artist (one of the slowest in the biz) once did the same quality of artwork on a monthly basis and never missed a deadline for a Different Company. But with his current employer, it's a Marvel that the final issue of his latest series came out at all. So publishers, if you can't light a fire under the ass of your artists/writers, at least wait until the book is finished before you even solicit the first issue in Previews. This stroking the egos of "superstars" by publishers has got to stop.
Jamie | 06.17.07 - 3:14 pm | #

I can tell you what this blog needs-- a Cranius banner!!!
Anonymous | 06.17.07 - 3:45 pm | #

1- More non-story content. Letter pages, fun facts, meet the creators, sketchbooks, puzzles, comic strips, etc .

2- Graphic decapitations and dismemberment in mainstream superhero comcis.
The Mutt | Email | 06.17.07 - 3:54 pm | #

1- Suppoting characters, I'm tired of the whole "capes only talk to other capes" thing

2- Silver age references for no good reason, just because is from the Silver Age (or alternaty made by Kirby) is NOT instantly cool, make it FIT into the story
Dumma | 06.17.07 - 4:23 pm | #

Umm.. that would "alternately" up there, Mr Mind ate my spelling
Dumma | 06.17.07 - 4:26 pm | #

(1) Mini Marvels

(2) Improbable anatomy being presented as "sexy."
Chance | Email | Homepage | 06.17.07 - 4:50 pm | #

1. Gadget Hackwrench in comics again.

2. Senseless gore, unless it's funny, like in Garth Ennis' stories.
stavner | Email | 06.17.07 - 5:13 pm | #

like to see: comics in different formats, comics sold in newsstands and department stores, more self-contained stories

like not to see again: ironic, self-referential superhero writing (B**d M******r), Powergirl's tits
rob! | Email | Homepage | 06.17.07 - 6:28 pm | #

1) Lettercolumns! They disappeared from DC and Bongo.

1a) New characters at the Big Two. Some arrangement has to be made for creator's rights -- Marvel keeps bringing back "Nova," probably for no apparent reason other than that they own it. I've never met anyone who likes Nova, not as a kid, or as an adult.

2) Crossovers and tie-ins. "Secret Wars II" was crap; I thought that even as a twelve-year old. The tie-ins were blah -- what 12-year old wanted to read a disco-craze POS comic like "Dazzler" in 1985? Has not time proven Jim Shooter's crummy ideas as Bad For Bidness? Is it too much to ask for a good book, anticipated every month, without having to care about some Multiverse or Universe nonsense?
rockie bee | Email | Homepage | 06.17.07 - 6:33 pm | #

I want what Comic Bob wants. The one thing that is driving me away from books is not getting a full story for my $3.
Comics that get sandbagged with too much dialogue or backstory waste my time and money. Even Bendis, on DD, had to have a Gladiator arc that was really 2 issues of story stretched out. If comics came out weekly (and were cheaper), this wouldn't be a problem, but getting us to invest 5-6 months into a story that really isn't that important in the scheme of things is a real letdown.
I'd also ask comics to stop daisy-chaining their crossovers. Give us a big, definitive ending. Period.
sjdowling | Email | 06.17.07 - 6:48 pm | #

1. More support from major, mainline publishers for more diverse content and storytelling - DC does okay with Vertigo, Minx, Helix, etc., and sometimes Dark Horse and Image do some non-superhero stuff, but it's few and far between for Marvel (Criminal and Kabuki being the few exceptions).

1b. More support from Diamond for independent publishers doing non-superhero work.

1c. Appropriately paced stories - one template ("compressed", "decompressed", "writing for the trade", etc.) does not fit all - each has its place, but so few people seem to understand that.

1d. More emphasis on story and less on event - the format of serialized fiction has a lot of potential that is currently being squandered by doing allegedly shocking and dramatic event-driven stories. (I'm looking at you "Back in Black" and most of the rest of Marvel, for that mattter).

2. Less emphasis on trying to make comics like TV or movies/DVD's. They are all very different things people - let's celebrate and use the medium we're in and not act like it's some bastard offspring.

2b. Less grim and gritty - has the 90's come back or just never left? Few people do this well and it's just seems relentless lately. Stop it!

2c. Less hype - more substance.

2d. MUCH less hyper-sexualization of women. MUCH less TNA. A moritorium on violence against women.
Michael Denton | Email | Homepage | 06.17.07 - 7:50 pm | #

1. Cynicism.

2. Zombies.
Johnny Bacardi | Email | Homepage | 06.17.07 - 8:03 pm | #

1) More Jack Klugman

2) Archie. He scares us.
Gordon | Email | Homepage | 06.17.07 - 8:29 pm | #

1) Short answer, and you should expect this from me: Fun.

Let me crib from this week's issue of Entertainment Weekly, which was discussing the 1938 The Adventures of Robin Hood movie with Errol Flynn:

"...Robin Hood bounced with a joy, with a spirit that's almost entirely absent from movies made today, movies with budgets big enough to buy Sherwood Forest."

Absolutely. True of comics, too.


2) Formerly-heroic characters acting like jerks, villains, or murderers. DC is to be commended for turning Batman around, the biggest across-the-board post-I-Crisis advance in years.
Bully | Email | Homepage | 06.17.07 - 8:37 pm | #

1. Actual STORYELLING in funnybook art. My gawd, the frickin' Order of the Stick webcomic had better layouts than half the legit comics on the rack. Action I could understand without exposition.
2. Rape. And dead girlfriends.
Manley Ripsnort | Email | 06.17.07 - 8:39 pm | #

1)Variety. Most of my comics ordered nowadays are from the big 2. How about some variety like back in the 80s when the direct market was new and the possibilities were endless.

2) Anti-heroes, or at least writers trying to explain why someone puts on the long underwear to fight crime. What's wrong with wanting to do the right thing and helping the common man (or woman, or kid)? Most people out there want to.
Tony Collett | Email | Homepage | 06.17.07 - 8:50 pm | #

Want: Not to copy others but... new stuff. New writers, new artists, or the old ones with new tricks, new formats, new ideas. Comics when done right can bring in new stuff from everywhere. Or at least re-appropriate the past in a good way. It's been called a pirate medium and that's a strength that needs to be played up.

Do not want:Mediocrity. Blandness is death. This is a big sin for the "Big Two" who enforce homogeneity on there lines with an iron fist.Sure occasionally a Morrison or a Fraction get to do something interesting, but by and large they want to be the Coke/Pepsi of comics.Not that the indies/manga/ect have their own problems with averageness.
James | 06.17.07 - 8:52 pm | #

Wait, I'm an idiot. That should be:

1. LESS cynicism.

and

2. Zombies.


Good night.
Johnny Bacardi | Email | Homepage | 06.17.07 - 8:56 pm | #

want more: big, crazy fun

want less: fawning over "name" creators who can't meet deadlines.
philip | Homepage | 06.17.07 - 10:43 pm | #

1 - I'd like to see more self-contained stories.

2. I'd like to see less pandering to creators who cannot keep to a publishing schedule. If you can't do a monthly book - don't do one.
Andy Turnbull | Email | Homepage | 06.18.07 - 4:38 am | #

Would like to see more of:

Stories which have a beginning, middle, and end each month -- even if they are part of a larger storyline.

Would like to never see again:

"Holding pattern" stories, which serve no purpose other than pushing a story to five or six issues.
Luke | Email | 06.18.07 - 4:48 am | #

Mike,

I just realized - I commented twice: first, early on, then later on Sunday, after some massive insanity.

Please disregard my second comment. I was...well, goofy. And in dire need of sleep.

Your pal,
Gordon
Gordon | Email | Homepage | 06.18.07 - 5:39 am | #

1. Explanations & Cites - in the form of the old style asterisks and a short, "As seen in issue #35". Oh, and they should bring back letter columns - or at least some outlet in the book for the editorial voice.

2. Expanded stories - stories that would have been done in one issue 30 years ago taking up 6 now. Or maybe I should just stick to reading the Adventures in the DCU series.
Dan | Email | 06.18.07 - 6:34 am | #

1) Backup stories. Who didn't like the Dr. 13 story? It let's the companies flow their characters past the lense to keep their huge catalogue up to date copyright wise and can be used to work with new and emerging talent.

2) A company wide cross-over. It's okay for a self contained crossover in the summer but when all books are crossing over all the time, I think I'd rather spend my money on a Nintendo DS game or, you know, a novel.
joncormier | Email | Homepage | 06.18.07 - 6:37 am | #

Since everybody's taking the obvious answers, how about these:

MOAR PLEEZ: A recognition and embracing by mainstream comics of comic books' cartoon heritage. In the sixties and seventies, guys like Steranko and Colan introduced cinematic elements to the funnybooks, and it was cool. Others followed suit, and now the "cinematographic" style has overwhelmed and imposed unnecessary limitations on the books. Embrace the toonish heart of our beloved medium, consarn it! Open up the toolbox and broaden the visual possibilities!

Make the bad men stop: Trying to prove comics are kool and badass and so not nerdy. Yes, I know that "fun" comics are commercial suicide and that these traits are, in fact, what keep Marvel and DC solvent. That doesn't mean I like them.

Too much of modern mainstream comicry reminds me of a bunch of dorks hanging out and reassuring each other that they're super-cool and avant-garde, that they're misunderstood outsider rebel geniuses that the world just doesn't appreciate yet, and that they're so close to kicking the asses of everyone who pisses them off, but, y'know, they haven't, um, done it yet. Ugh.

A sidebar: I also would like a little recognition of the stupidity of telling a customer "sure, you've paid fifteen dollars for the story thus far and nothing has happened and it's boring, but soon, soon it will pick up and be cool! Just spend another thirty bucks over the next few months and it will at last be a worthy story!" (See: 52) Ass-clowns, your stuff isn't good enough for me to cough up fifteen bucks for just the opening act. Recognize that with a three-buck-per-issue cost, my patience, even as a devoted comic fan, is not what it once was, nor should it be. Get to the goddamn story and wrap it up quicker, or make the stories thicker so that I don't mind that it takes a stack of issues. Either's cool.

Plus: if they ever do a DC-Marvel crossover again, they need to put MODOK in Gorilla City. You know it. I know it. It needs to happen.
Harvey Jerkwater | Email | 06.18.07 - 6:38 am | #

1. More stand-alone stories, i.e. fewer six-issues arcs.

2. No more comapnay wide cross-overs.
Lankyguy | Email | 06.18.07 - 7:20 am | #

1) More lighthearted fun in mainstream supers books

2) Less blood and guts and exposed bones and such in mainstream supers books
Jeff Rients | Email | Homepage | 06.18.07 - 7:38 am | #

My completely unoriginal opinions:

1) The return of letter columns

2) A drastic decrease in multi-part crossovers
Billy | 06.18.07 - 7:59 am | #

While I agree with a lot of what's posted above (especially with regard to less writing for the trade, fewer massive crossovers, and less ultra-violence), I thought I'd throw a few more ideas into the mix:

1. More narrative covers - y'know, covers that actually show something about the story inside the book. Who knows, maybe this would increase the chances of getting an actual story inside the book? (I'd personally enjoy reinstating the use of captions and word balloons on covers, but that may just be nostalgia speaking.)

2. Less "soft-focus" art in superhero and adventure comics - by which I mean less reproduction from pencils, less "pastelly" coloring, and inking that actually looks like pen and brush strokes. Just as rock music goes with electric guitars, superhero and adventure comics (generally) go with hard edges and strong contrasts. I'm looking at you, Pascual Ferry, Phil Noto (Jonah Hex should look gritty, not like someone's presentation boards for an ad campaign), and hosts of current inkers. (A prominent example is Greg Land's favorite inker Matt Ryan, who only adds to Land's well-documented problems by overlaying a gloss that reminds me of nothing so much as bad 1970s van-side airbrushing.) Not that softer-focus art always looks bad: I've just caught up on the past few issues of Iron Fist, and David Aja's art looks pretty damn good. (Still, I'd probably like it better with harder edges.)
Anonymous | Email | 06.18.07 - 8:53 am | #

1. I'm reading through the Casanova trade, and am astounded by the amount of actual story in the relatively smaller page count per issue. Why can't more comics writers be like this? So, that's my answer: I'd like to see more actual story in my comics, as opposed to the meandering, unfocused writing-for-the-trade that's so in vogue these days.

2. I don't think I ever want to see comics become truly "mainstream". It feels nice to have our little hobby validated from time to time, but as the bigger companies become more and more corporate it seems like there's less room for quirky/personal stories. Stockholders want to see profit above anything else, and corporations do that by trying to please everyone... and you know what they say about those who try to please everyone.

Thanks, Mike.
Mathew | Email | Homepage | 06.18.07 - 9:20 am | #

1) Actual literate, smart and humorous writing.

2) Super heroes. Seriously, there's no reason why one genre - and a very limiting and generally juvenile one at that - should hog 75% of the market of a particular medium. It's as if 75% of all movies were Cowboy movies, or something.

I don't even bother with super heroes any more, not even when great writers do "their own take" on them (except Ex Machina, which hardly counts). They've been deconstructed, reconstructed, demystified and remystified over and over for the last fifteen years or so...

Shut down Spiderman, JLA, Batman, The X-Men and all those other titles and crossover wars for one year and let all their creators do something else instead. You can't tell me that wouldn't make for an absolute landmark year in comics.
Teaflax | Email | 06.18.07 - 11:36 am | #

1. More endings, please. More done-in-ones, less to-be-continueds.

2. Fewer spin-offs of Main Event crossovers. World War III was an abomination. Frontline teased and fizzled.
Rob S. | Email | Homepage | 06.18.07 - 11:59 am | #

1. More wit.

2. Multiverse- and Internet-shattering events that are totally mishandled.
Seth Burgess | Email | 06.18.07 - 12:50 pm | #

"Shut down Spiderman, JLA, Batman, The X-Men and all those other titles and crossover wars for one year and let all their creators do something else instead. You can't tell me that wouldn't make for an absolute landmark year in comics."

If by "landmark" you mean the commercial collapse of the mainstream US comics industry,* I'd have to agree. I'm all for diversity in comics, but that's a tad extreme.

By the way, that "Anonymous" remark about narrative covers and soft-focus inking should have appeared with my nom d'Internet, "O" the Humanatee! Let's see if this one does.

* Yeah, I know, what about Archie, etc., blah blah blah.
Anonymous | Email | 06.18.07 - 1:22 pm | #

1. Superheroes who absolutely love being superheroes, and more genres in the medium.

2. A monopoly by one distribution company. That really should be fixed by now.
cainmark | Email | 06.18.07 - 1:36 pm | #

More unoriginal opinions:

(1) Better visual storytelling, and less of a focus on cinematographic realism. Harvey Jerkwater said it well, referencing comics' cartoon heritage. Am not looking for less mature writing, but instead mature writing paired with better illustration. Stuart Immonen, Frank Quitely and Darwin Cooke stand out to me as guys that put out great art without trying to be realistic. More please.

(2) Am totally onboard for fewer super heroes--especially gritty superheroes (I'm looking at you Garth Ennis). There are way too many superhero books, especially when comparing to the crime noir and good sci fi stories that get put out. These stories can clearly be told with super heroes and I enjoy the fantastic elements, but often the conventions of superhero story-telling add nothing to the experience (see, for example, X-Men in space).
Dan Duerr | 06.18.07 - 4:52 pm | #

1. One part stories and jump on points for new readers.

2. Angsty super-jerks
Brandon Bragg | Email | Homepage | 06.18.07 - 4:57 pm | #

Hmmm...

1. I realise this makes me sound like the fifth Miss America runner-up at this point, but hey, it can't be said too often:

More fun, more imagination, more wit, more...grace. More of a sense of wonderment, at being able to explore a universe where silver guys ride around the cosmos on surfboards.

2. 'Improbable anatomy being presented as 'sexy', and the accompanying perception that comic readers - male and female both, for different reasons - are dumb as posts.

2a. Hyper-realism. I'm not sure just how possible it is to make superheroes fresh and new anymore, but trying to shoehorn them tighter and tighter into the real world, to the point where a knowledge of passing fads is now a requirement for heroism, clearly ain't it.
km | Email | 06.18.07 - 5:20 pm | #

1. While I get giddy for any sort of interesting panel structure/usage of art int elling a story (JH Williams, you are my god), I would really like to see artists show some serious consideration for where text will go in their panels. Too often nowadays text is obscuring interesting and even important stuff, and the sad thing is looking at the panel there's nowhere else for the text to go. I mean, even ten years ago this didn't happen. What the hell?

2. While I appreciate the storytelling effect a full-page splash can have... I really wouldn't feel too bad if I never saw another two-page splash of someone getting punched ever again.
zc | Email | 06.18.07 - 6:53 pm | #