Your Thoughts on Thought Balloons
I have a theory that the reason Marvel stopped doing thought balloons a couple years ago was not because they were starting to seem corny, but because that without thought balloons the readers...
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I like them. In the old days, Stan used to have everyone say EVERYTHING aloud. It seemed much more natural once the thought baloons became common. I hope they come back.
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... slightly off track, what was the last comic to have a thought balloon?
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Recent issues of the Mighty Avengers had thought balloons, Stu. However, they seem to be limited to just one word or so and had a bit of a smart-ass tone to them. I like them in the 80's. Sometimes...
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... I find it difficult to believe a mind reader is a mind reader if I can't read his thoughts ... Professor X would be less believable if he never had thought balloons
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I always liked thought balloons especially in Spiderman where he would boast and joke out-loud to the villain but be worried in his thoughts. I think that the current trend of color coded narration...
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I like them. They can be used poorly (to state the obvious or repeat what's going on the artwork) or they can be used well (to give insight into a character's hidden thoughts or motivations). I also...
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I love thought balloons and I love captions. The lack of them is one of many reasons why I don't care for current comics these days. I see nothing "corny" about them.....When skilled writers like Lee,...
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Chris, as usual you voiced what I was thinking. While I don't like text-heavy comics, straight-jacketing them with a no-thought-balloon policy is...thoughtless.
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I had a friend in high school who would draw insulting thought balloons and place them over his head. It was pretty funny.
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Fyrcyning wrote: Apparently, thought balloons are being actively discouraged by modern editors. Nowadays comics tend to be scripted like movies, i.e., mostly action and dialogue, and very few thought...
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I like though Balloons- they add a lot to the story, and it makes more sense than the hero talking aloud to himself. I don't even waste my time with new comics anymore, and haven't for over a decade
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Marshall Crist wrote: Chris, as usual you voiced what I was thinking. While I don't like text-heavy comics, straight-jacketing them with a no-thought-balloon policy is...thoughtless. Agreed. You are...
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This is an interesting topic. Are comic books a visual medium or text medium? Novels often describe events from one character's point of view and often make valuable use of the fact that we, the...
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What's funny is that I read both current and old comics, but I never caught on to the fact that thought balloons and captions had been largely ditched in the newer stuff. What has been readily...
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i like balloons...day preetee! I carry a sign around with a grease pencil to write out my thoughts and hold them up for others to read...such as I'm doing now in this case I'm typing them...neat!
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I like them in moderation...hate the decompression of todays comics. 6 Issues to tell an overlong story is the norm.
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"Film critics, on the other hand, most often criticize films that use a narrator's voice in order to explain to us what is going on or the narrated voice of a character to tell us what that character...
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Chris of The Old School People wrote: I love thought balloons and I love captions. The lack of them is one of many reasons why I don't care for current comics these days. I see nothing "corny" about...
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And of course there's the Chris Claremont variety: Panel Description: A regal, beautiful, bikini-clad young woman stands upright, holding a spear. In the background we see a jungle landscape. Panel...
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