Bad Comic Dialog (that makes you wanna rip your ears out of their canals)

[Yodaman]

someone's already using it.. or at least was, at a point..

http://forums.superherohype.com/showpost.php?p=15872449&postcount=14127

Sorry C.F. Kane

I really don't mind if you use it. Your name is so much more appropriate for it anyway.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Moments where characters are alone and speaking out loud to convey their emotions and thoughts to the reader.

Another reason why the absence of thought bubbles annoys me. It was perfectly fine if people were replaying events in their heads, but since whoever at Marvel suddenly decided thought bubbles were passé, we now have to have either people speaking the recaps out loud or narration boxes, which don't work as well to me.

 

[Kable24]

Then you got guys like Bendis who doesn't know how to use the thought bubble properly.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Yeah, apparently to Bendis, "thought bubble" = snark.

 

[Aristotle]

Yeah, apparently to Bendis, "thought bubble" = snark.

"Hello, fellow Avengers"/Thought bubble: "****in' *****ebags ****ing' *****ebags ****IN *****EBAGS FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

 

[Chris Wallace]

Do you mean recent New Avengers Luke Cage, or anything Luke Cage has said ever?

Ever.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

"Hello, fellow Avengers"/Thought bubble: "****in' *****ebags ****ing' *****ebags ****IN *****EBAGS FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

For real. It was the worst with Hank Pym. The dude worked past his issues and everyone had accepted that both he and Wanda had moved on for like 20 years between 1980 and 2000, but then Johns and Bendis come along and suddenly everyone's like, "Hey, Hank, we need some help here"/thought bubble: "If you're not too busy creating world-destroying robots totally on purpose and punching women of all ages in the face at every opportunity!"

 

[The Question]

Another reason why the absence of thought bubbles annoys me. It was perfectly fine if people were replaying events in their heads, but since whoever at Marvel suddenly decided thought bubbles were passé, we now have to have either people speaking the recaps out loud or narration boxes, which don't work as well to me.

The boxes don't bother me. They often serve the exact same purpose as thought bubbles, just with a different aesthetic.

 

[kguillou]

Originally posted by TheCorpulent1

For real. It was the worst with Hank Pym. The dude worked past his issues and everyone had accepted that both he and Wanda had moved on for like 20 years between 1980 and 2000, but then Johns and Bendis come along and suddenly everyone's like, "Hey, Hank, we need some help here"/thought bubble: "If you're not too busy creating world-destroying robots totally on purpose and punching women of all ages in the face at every opportunity!"

Hahahahahahaha, so funny yet so true i must admit. t:

 

[Frank]

Pretty much any conversation in Ultimate Spider-Man or most other comics Bendis writes.

I agree 100%

 

[random_havoc]

Okay, now this is bad stormwatch art. What the crap is battalion trying to do with his fingers exactly? Is that some sort of leaping, finger spread attack posture I'm not aware of?
Not to mention how alien his face looks.
Plus there's Spartan who is in some weird arc but with no indication as to why.
The interior art was worse.

 

[[A]]

^ wrong thread..?

 

[random_havoc]

wrong thread, woops.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

The boxes don't bother me. They often serve the exact same purpose as thought bubbles, just with a different aesthetic.

True, but I prefer the bubble aesthetic. It feels more integrated into the story. I guess I see the storytelling artifice more with the narration box, which pulls me out of the story a bit.

 

[Chris Wallace]

Ideally, thought bubbles should be for interior monologue & boxes should be for narration. If you've got something like the opening of the "Spider-Man" movie, boxes are perfect for that. But if the hero is looking at a situation & debating his options, give me bubbles.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Yeah, like if Spider-Man is swinging through the city and wondering whether he should stop at a drugstore for some cookies, I don't want to see a narration box for that because narration boxes are meant to push the story forward. This is just Peter musing to himself--perfect for a thought bubble.

 

[Chris Wallace]

But if the first panel of page one shows him buried under a ton of rubble or pinned to a wall w/a tentacle clasped around his throat, a box is fine for him recounting the events that led him there.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Our minds are as one, Chris.

 

[The Question]

True, but I prefer the bubble aesthetic. It feels more integrated into the story. I guess I see the storytelling artifice more with the narration box, which pulls me out of the story a bit.

I think it depends on the nature of the story for me. For a high action, dark, mythic Thor story about the epic and age old struggle between good and evil and all of that D&D/Tolkein-esque goodness, I'd rather have boxes. If it's a Spider-Man story, or some other character with a sense of humor, then I dig the bubbles. They're really the exact same thing with a different look, but the look lends itself to different kinds of stories.

 

[Captain Useless]

I think it depends on the nature of the story for me. For a high action, dark, mythic Thor story about the epic and age old struggle between good and evil and all of that D&D/Tolkein-esque goodness, I'd rather have boxes. If it's a Spider-Man story, or some other character with a sense of humor, then I dig the bubbles. They're really the exact same thing with a different look, but the look lends itself to different kinds of stories.

That's true, it all depends on the story.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Only it doesn't at Marvel because thought bubbles are off limits to everyone but Bendis.

 

[Captain Useless]

Who's probably the worst person at using them :/

 

[batpawn]

Sorry C.F. Kane

I really don't mind if you use it. Your name is so much more appropriate for it anyway.

i know that's kinda offtopic, but could someone possibly be so kind and make a 150x150 version out of this, please?

and btw, this thread really needs more screens. some of that stuff here (considering that 'some' is only 3 pictures which means 2 out of them) are incredible.

 

[GNR]

I don't get all the Bendis hate.I think his dialog is some of the best in comics.His characters actually converse and speak WITH each other,not AT each other.

I can't comment on USM,but in books like DD,Powers and Alias,his dialog is some of the most nautral sounding and entertaining you will read in comics.

 

[Chris Wallace]

Overall, yes. I do agree there. He manages to avoid a lot of the dialogue cliches.