The Narrator in comic books is what makes them so hard to read
I can go through volumes of mangas in a day but reading more than one trade is a headache, they are so wordy
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These books were meant to be read slowly so they’d seem like better values to kid. Manga are meant to be read quickly between commutes sometimes you buy the new issue next week.
It's kind of weird how the "getting more value" thing has gone out of style, even if it was artificially inflated value.
On the other hand, video games have gone full moron with it and offer you 200 hours of doing the same 4 second thing over and over again, sometimes with different numbers.
I honestly just ignore them at some point
Basically what said. I enjoy reading books and visual novels but if something is supposed to be a comic it should convey stories like one.
Granted it's more common with old comics and the newer ones I read were less narrators and characters info dumping and explaining what happens and more panels actually showing it. But I will still ignore those text box stories if I come across any.
Don't know why they can't just remove the narration in reprints and let the art speak for itself. Show don't tell.
Probably because it would also involve redraws and most of the people (re)buying old stuff like this are boomers that would get mad about the changes. I never understood the point of most of these boxes, since they usually don't even provide any genuine new info that isn't or obviously hinted in the picture and bubbles.
>They remove the text boxes
>"What the frick is going on? Why is he doing that? This story sucks!"
Frick revisionism like that, and frick you for suggesting that
> ugh these old movies are so boring g, they should add color and cgi effects!
Shit like this is why comics will always be a niche thing for nerds. Can't break into the mainstream and make good money if the average person thinks the whole medium's for losers.
Just read other comics
Like…just don’t read it
no. it doesn't matter if it's wordy, it matters if the words don't have any additional value. some old comics have a lot of needless exposition, others like watchmen use the narration better.
"show, don't tell" doesn't mean "less text" or "tell it in pictures". even prose novels can do "show, don't tell." it means be specific and real.
I feel the same way any time a manga grinds to a halt to deliver an exposition dump, sometimes complete with diagrams. The spoonfeeding parts of these are always tiresome to read.
If it has narration blocks that me want to skip them, I just skip the whole book.
>The spoonfeeding parts of these are always tiresome to read.
I even hallucinate that it got worse the last decade or so. Or lets say that at least the manga that got translated and sold in the 00s where I live were much more niche and almost everything I see now seems to be written for the mass so characters even explain the shit you just saw happening in a fear of losing moronic readers or toddlers that might not get it.
It depends. In something like a mind game manga/ table game manga they can be extremely fun and the whole reason you read them.
I disagree. Even when it's necessary, it gets in the way and isn't told all that well.
You just know some insufferbale campgay is gonna see this thread and come barging in yelling "HAHAHAH moronic ADHD ZOOMER OP CAN'T READ" even though a lot of words doesn't mean something is inherently more intellectual Narration in old comics could be really awesome sometimes, but a lot of the time it was unnecessary and redundant. Which is why it was eventually phased out as a practice.
It's true though
The worst is that it literally prevents any sort of dynamic and emotion the comic might have had since you are even more likely to see a panel that tells you that a comrade was just killed and that it makes MC sad instead of actually seeing all of this conveyed. Everybody can explain the story in their head in a bunch of info boxes.
Narration boxes was generally used to move plot along so you can get an entire story in a single issue
Now it takes 5 issues to tell a story so you can waste an entire page doing an establishing shot
Blame Stan.
Are you serious?
Kids got mad if comics were too fast to read since they didn’t get their money’s worth
Now “adults” read them so they want less words and read Manga so you can blast through 4 volumes in a weekend
It’s funny. I can read a 400 pages book in 1 day if I am into it but with these old comics even if I enjoy them it gets so boring to read all that shit spread across the page. I don’t think too many words fit well with images.
Because it's none of the extremes. It's neither a pure text taking advantage of playing with your imagination and conveying a story in form of a good prose nor is it a story that makes good use of the visuals by leading your eye and showing dynamics. It feels more like a book you summarized and chopped into text bits.
>hating on narrators
narrators in comics are kino. i don't get the hate. do you zoomer dumbfricks just hate reading,
> kino
Learn to use real words. Was your mother too busy sucking dicks for money to teach you proper english?
>wtf he used a Cinemaphile slang word on Cinemaphile
have a nice day tourist
Modern Cinemaphile slang is trash and I don’t give a frick. Go back to your prostitute of a mother and tell her that your life is not kino.
Not most of them.
I like most of them.
gives the comics an almost pulpy radio-play type feel.
Marvel never pulled it off as well as EC though
Most anons in this thread seem to enjoy books, just not these types of comics. Words existing doesn't equal a proper reading experience, shitty descriptive text boxes aren't on the same level as a text from Shakespeare or any non-shit author.
Some '60s Marvel guy said doing the comics differently made him realize that comics had been "done wrong" up until that point.
You just don't like to read. Comics aren't for you.
Now stop posting about it on Cinemaphile.
He said he likes manga.
It's a tool that is often overused. The worst is when it's a panel sequence that is moment to moment, but has paragraphs of text. Ruins the flow