Rant about decompression of comics

[Phantom]

Latest Spawn 258. Erik Larson does spawn.
Not slagging off Eric Larson ~ but to 1990's stars get together and make the worst 90's comic ever.
Maybe took 1 minute ? 2 minutes to read the comic?.
In the end I flicked through to find further dialogue ~~~ nothing.
If I was in a comic shop I would not of brought it ~ but it arrived by post.

NEXT TIME you are in a comic shop check it out, I bet you can read it in under 1 minute. "" pages of art, that could of been in 1? 2 pages if scripted correctly.

[jeremycoe]

Latest Spawn 258. Erik Larson does spawn.
Not slagging off Eric Larson ~ but to 1990's stars get together and make the worst 90's comic ever.
Maybe took 1 minute ? 2 minutes to read the comic?.
In the end I flicked through to find further dialogue ~~~ nothing.
If I was in a comic shop I would not of brought it ~ but it arrived by post.

NEXT TIME you are in a comic shop check it out, I bet you can read it in under 1 minute. "" pages of art, that could of been in 1? 2 pages if scripted correctly.

Has to be better than what Spawn was without Larsen. I tried to get into Spawn again in the lead up to #250 and Spawn: Resurrection, but thought it was awful. Way too wordy with hardly anything to show for it. I really enjoy Larsen's work, so am looking forward to trying Spawn again.

[possumgrease]

Latest Spawn 258. Erik Larson does spawn.
Not slagging off Eric Larson ~ but to 1990's stars get together and make the worst 90's comic ever.
Maybe took 1 minute ? 2 minutes to read the comic?.
In the end I flicked through to find further dialogue ~~~ nothing.
If I was in a comic shop I would not of brought it ~ but it arrived by post.

NEXT TIME you are in a comic shop check it out, I bet you can read it in under 1 minute. "" pages of art, that could of been in 1? 2 pages if scripted correctly.

Has to be better than what Spawn was without Larsen. I tried to get into Spawn again in the lead up to #250 and Spawn: Resurrection, but thought it was awful. Way too wordy with hardly anything to show for it. I really enjoy Larsen's work, so am looking forward to trying Spawn again.

For some reason, Spawn is still on my pull list. If it ever renumbers, I will quit the title. There's something about having a run of consecutively numbered issues. That being said, I dropped Savage Dragon around #200 because of the out-of-place menage e tois. [not that I'm a prude, but it just came off really pervy like Chris Hansen was going to be in the next panel when I turned the page]

To the OP from a few years ago: I do not mind decompressed storytelling if you give me a higher page count. In fact, if you read a whole storyline in one sitting (like in a tpb or HC), the average modern comic beats the average comic from any prior time period. But issue to issue, the modern way is pretty sad.

If it takes 3 minutes to flip through 22 pages of splash pages with no dialogue other than grunts or sound effects, then I feel I wasted my money. I realize of course that it costs money to print more pages which makes change unlikely.

[Shadowman99]

If it takes 3 minutes to flip through 22 pages of splash pages with no dialogue other than grunts or sound effects, then I feel I wasted my money. I realize of course that it costs money to print more pages which makes change unlikely.

And that's where my idea that comics are too rigid as an artistic medium comes back to the fore again - why do comics have to have a standard average page count? Why can't a comic have more (or less) pages if the dialogue is light, to tell/pace the story better?

It's a bit of a rhetorical question really. I know it simply comes down to $$$