| Posted: 04 September 2014 at 8:26pm | IP Logged | 4
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1. They're writing for film. They miss the point that they're doing comics and write long drawn out scenes envisioning two actors on AMC reading them rather than what will look good on paper. They really do seem to want to capture every movement a character is doing so we can pick up on things that probably should just be said somehow. ••• Part of the problem -- a big part -- is the insistence by so many current writers that they work full script. Very few people really think in pictures, and there are few places where this is more apparent than when reading a comicbook script. This is one of the reasons the so-called "Marvel Method" came into being. It lets the various folk involved do what they (theoretically) do best. The artists break down the action in pictures, the writers add dialog and captions. Hopefully, if the writer is on the ball, s/he recognizes when neither are needed. Sure, it's not a perfect system. But at least working from a plot I was never asked to "pan" in a single panel!
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