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Post subject: Wordiest Writer  Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2014 6:25 pm |
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Hen Teaser
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They must get paid by the word,judging by all the dialogue they have their characters saying.Who would have the most words in an average comic?
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Post subject: Wordiest Writer Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2014 6:41 pm |
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The correct answer is Roy Thomas.
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Post subject: Wordiest Writer Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2014 6:45 pm |
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Post subject: Wordiest Writer Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2014 10:20 pm |
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Henry James and D.H. Lawrence.
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Bolgani Gogo
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Post subject: Wordiest Writer Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2014 10:53 pm |
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Rafael
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Post subject: Wordiest Writer Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2014 11:06 pm |
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Bolgani Gogo wrote: HP Lovecraft. His prose was cyclopean and non-Euclidean. But the correct answer is "Chris Claremont". Bendis may be wordy, but every now and then there is a page with no dialogue, so Claremont wins.
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Marcus
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Post subject: Wordiest Writer Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2014 11:26 pm |
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Ocean Doot
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Post subject: Wordiest Writer Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2014 2:29 am |
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Rafael wrote: Bolgani Gogo wrote: HP Lovecraft. His prose was cyclopean and non-Euclidean. But the correct answer is "Chris Claremont". Bendis may be wordy, but every now and then there is a page with no dialogue, so Claremont wins. Don't be like that.
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Rafael
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Post subject: Wordiest Writer Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2014 2:35 am |
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He also wins at being THE BEST.
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Evans
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Post subject: Wordiest Writer Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2014 2:36 am |
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You guys haven't lived if you think Roy Thomas and Chris Claremont are or were the wordiest writers in comics. Steve Gerber, for example, used to put in double their verbal quota. The REAL wordiest writer was Don McGregor especially in the brilliant Panther's Rage.
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Post subject: Wordiest Writer Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2014 2:37 am |
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OK. But he has written pages with no dialogue.
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Rafael
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Post subject: Wordiest Writer Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2014 2:49 am |
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Evans wrote: You guys haven't lived if you think Roy Thomas and Chris Claremont are or were the wordiest writers in comics. Steve Gerber, for example, used to put in double their verbal quota. The REAL wordiest writer was Don McGregor especially in the brilliant Panther's Rage. We're focusing on writers who break just a few rules of storytelling, not all of them.
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Jason Czeskleba
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Post subject: Wordiest Writer Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2014 2:51 am |
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Evans wrote: The REAL wordiest writer was Don McGregor especially in the brilliant Panther's Rage. This is the correct answer. Don McGregor was the writer that the other 70's Marvel writers mocked for being too wordy... and THAT is saying something. Check out this panel from Avengers #137, in which Englehart parodies McGregor's wordiness: 
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Rafael
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Post subject: Wordiest Writer Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2014 2:52 am |
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Ocean Doot wrote: OK. But he has written pages with no dialogue.  So good.
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Ocean Doot
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Post subject: Wordiest Writer Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2014 3:29 am |
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Jason Czeskleba wrote: Evans wrote: The REAL wordiest writer was Don McGregor especially in the brilliant Panther's Rage. This is the correct answer. Don McGregor was the writer that the other 70's Marvel writers mocked for being too wordy... and THAT is saying something. Check out this panel from Avengers #137, in which Englehart parodies McGregor's wordiness:  Nice.
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Ocean Doot
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Post subject: Wordiest Writer Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2014 3:30 am |
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Evans wrote: You guys haven't lived if you think Roy Thomas and Chris Claremont are or were the wordiest writers in comics. Steve Gerber, for example, used to put in double their verbal quota. The REAL wordiest writer was Don McGregor especially in the brilliant Panther's Rage. I'm fine with that. I think Claremont's rep for wordiness is overblown.
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Ocean Doot
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Post subject: Wordiest Writer Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2014 3:30 am |
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Rafael wrote: Ocean Doot wrote: OK. But he has written pages with no dialogue. So good. 
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Rafael
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Post subject: Wordiest Writer Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2014 3:58 am |
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Ocean Doot wrote: think Claremont's rep for wordiness is overblown. It is. I think that's because his style was more memorable, and he kept writing like that even though comics were becoming less wordy as time went by. Also, it's because he's one of the most famous and recognizable names in comics, so he's the one fans remember when they think of wordy comics. McGregor was wordier, but the only rational response when someone mentions him is "Who the fuck is Don McGregor?" Most comics in the 70s and early 80s were written like that. Wolfman doesn't get the same rep, and one of the reasons I've never made it through his Titans is because of those dull walls of text. Halfway through any issue I just give up on that shit and go read an awesome Claremont comic instead.
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Night Owl
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Post subject: Wordiest Writer Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2014 8:44 am |
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Rafael wrote: Wolfman doesn't get the same rep, and one of the reasons I've never made it through his Titans is because of those dull walls of text. I conditioned my self to ignore those and I don't think I missed any of the story as a result. Getting back to Thomas. I do think that he could be extremely wordy, but I never tired of reading it and most of it was needed. In a plot-first, Marvel-style process, where the story is so dependent on the penciler, Thomas did a great job of filling in necessary storytelling gaps in the right tone for a superhero story.
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Hanzo the Razor
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Post subject: Wordiest Writer Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2014 10:36 am |
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Ocean Doot wrote: Evans wrote: You guys haven't lived if you think Roy Thomas and Chris Claremont are or were the wordiest writers in comics. Steve Gerber, for example, used to put in double their verbal quota. The REAL wordiest writer was Don McGregor especially in the brilliant Panther's Rage. I'm fine with that. I think Claremont's rep for wordiness is overblown. 
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Junkie Luv
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Post subject: Wordiest Writer Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2014 10:47 am |
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As dull and repetitive as they are
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Dr. Brian Fever
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Post subject: Wordiest Writer Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2014 11:36 am |
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Go ahead..I dare ya!
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Roy Thomas..... 
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