Dynamism

I'll tell you what's missing from modern comic books: dynamism.

It isn't so much that the writing or art is weak - in many cases, it is not - it's that there is a lack of dynamism amongst the entire thing. Everything is but a smaller piece to a larger puzzle, so nothing can stand-out too much.

Even more than that, when you see a character flip through a panel, it's more like s/he's doing a cartwheel than dynamically dodging bullets - and a lame cartwheel, at that. A stiff-legged, crooked-armed cartwheel like an embarrassed, grown man probably ought to do cartwheels... unless he is a former Olympic athlete.

I'm tired of scaled-down everything so that we can have a "phenomenal blow-out" later down the road. Because the phenomenal is always missing these days and we're just getting the blow-outs.

The writing is weak, the art is weak, and the problem is editorial. Everything is planned and plotted down to the very last period and isn't interesting. And it's too expensive to keep waiting for that phenomenal blow-out at the end.

I don't believe that comics companies are still doing the same things they've been doing because people are buying them; I believe people are so starved for decent comic book entertainment that they have no choice but to buy the same old tired crap they've been getting. What other choice do we have?

© C Harris Lynn, 2011