Comments on: Mainstream comics news and views

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by: ryan

Tue, 16 Jan 2007 19:50:59 +0000

Thanks for the link, Heidi.

Bill is absolutely correct. I should have cited far more specific examples. I’ll do better next time.

I also don’t particularly argue against decompression. I am far more concerned with a changing of creative teams every six to twelve issues and the potential for damage to long-running series.

by: John Platt

Tue, 16 Jan 2007 19:37:28 +0000

“Franchise” — yawn.

by: Bill Cunningham

Tue, 16 Jan 2007 19:00:40 +0000

My problem with the discussion is the fact the author doesn’t provide clearcut examples (evidence?) of how the six issue arcs have hurt the particular comics in question.

Perhaps editors do need to become more like the tv showrunners and link the arcs - fair enough - but I don’t particularly perceive 6 issue arcs as being “wrong.”

by: Thom

Tue, 16 Jan 2007 13:37:38 +0000

As a long time reader of comics, I gotta say…I prefer the “decompressed” storytelling. It sure is nice not having to read panel after panel so crammed with word balloons you can’t see the art that goes with it.

by: Hector Lima

Tue, 16 Jan 2007 12:57:52 +0000

six-issue story arcs are not a problem, bad stories and nothing happening in them are the real villain [in mainstream superhero comics, at least].

but when it comes to the holy grail of publishers who sell through the direct market comics [finding and keeping new readers], one can do with more oneshots.

unless you count a six-issue collected in a nifty TPB as a oneshot. then it’s all the same and it’s all doing fine. in any case, the good story argument stands.