No, I Meant Action

In yet another post in my now ongoing series of posts on what's wrong with modern comics, I've noticed a total lack of action - as in movement. Everyone's yelling, fighting, or posing. No one can swing from a rope anymore without it being a major movie poster swing; no one can just plain run from one point to another without their every limb akimbo; and too few people have just plain action between them. When's the last time someone just handed another character an object - not telekinetically floated it to them or crafted some fancy web device thingy?

Everyone's posing all the time and they aren't even active poses: they're limp, bored poses that denote a sense of carelessness. As though they're all always saying, "This isn't that important," or "I have so many superpowered better things to do right now."

Motion over action!

© C Harris Lynn, 2011