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Dr. Chris Evil
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Post subject: Talking in old comics!  Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 5:49 pm |
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Pure Evil Gold!!
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If you read comics from the seventies and prior, every sentence ends with an exclamation point! Except for the ones that end in a question mark! Why is that? If you were to apply e-mail etiquette standards of today to dialogue balloons from old comics, the characters would be screaming because the dialogue was in ALL CAPS!
Apparently, no comic characters whispered prior to the eighties! Why?
Thank you for your time!
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Gerry
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Post subject: Talking in old comics! Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 6:08 pm |
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Bolgani Gogo
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Post subject: Talking in old comics! Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 6:17 pm |
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Total guess: Because the printing was so terrible and the paper was so bad, they couldn't be sure a tiny little . would show up in the end product.
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RobertSwanderson
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Post subject: Talking in old comics! Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 6:23 pm |
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Bigger and Better!
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Bolgani Gogo wrote: Total guess: Because the printing was so terrible and the paper was so bad, they couldn't be sure a tiny little . would show up in the end product. Yup.
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That meddlin kid
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Post subject: Talking in old comics! Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 6:27 pm |
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Biker Librarian
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Bolgani Gogo wrote: Total guess: Because the printing was so terrible and the paper was so bad, they couldn't be sure a tiny little . would show up in the end product. Carl Barks said essentially that, IIRC. He said that comic book writers were encouraged to end every declarative sentence with an exclamation point. This essentially made exclamation points and question marks the only punctuation needed. And problems with printing were cited as the reason. That, and these were very fast-moving stories. Writers put in only as much text as they felt they really needed, so they wanted readers to pay attention to every sentence. Lots of exclamation points gave every sentence a sense of importance!
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That meddlin kid
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Post subject: Talking in old comics! Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 6:28 pm |
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Biker Librarian
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Dr. Chris Evil wrote: If you read comics from the seventies and prior, every sentence ends with an exclamation point! Except for the ones that end in a question mark! Why is that? If you were to apply e-mail etiquette standards of today to dialogue balloons from old comics, the characters would be screaming because the dialogue was in ALL CAPS!
Apparently, no comic characters whispered prior to the eighties! Why?
Thank you for your time! At least...it's not... Shatner...punctuation!
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Dr. Chris Evil
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Post subject: Talking in old comics! Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 6:33 pm |
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Pure Evil Gold!!
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That meddlin kid wrote: Dr. Chris Evil wrote: If you read comics from the seventies and prior, every sentence ends with an exclamation point! Except for the ones that end in a question mark! Why is that? If you were to apply e-mail etiquette standards of today to dialogue balloons from old comics, the characters would be screaming because the dialogue was in ALL CAPS!
Apparently, no comic characters whispered prior to the eighties! Why?
Thank you for your time! At least...it's not... Shatner...punctuation! The word balloons would have taken up half the panel if that were the case! THANKS, DAPHNE!
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Hank
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Post subject: Talking in old comics! Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2010 10:54 am |
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Good Stuff, Maynard!
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THIS IS ALSO WHY THERE ARE NO COMIC BOOK CHARACTERS NAMED CLINT FLICKER!
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Dr. Chris Evil
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Post subject: Talking in old comics! Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2010 10:56 am |
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Pure Evil Gold!!
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Hank! That's good to know!
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Beachy
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Post subject: Talking in old comics! Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2010 11:34 am |
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Mr. IMWANKO
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Beachy
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Post subject: Talking in old comics! Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2010 11:36 am |
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Mr. IMWANKO
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Tommy Tomorrow
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Post subject: Talking in old comics! Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2010 12:05 pm |
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CHRIS!
I'VE BEEN READING COMICS SINCE 1961 OR 2!
ALL THE STATEMENTS ABOUT PRINTING,
AND THE JOKES ABOUT ... ERR ... CLINT FLICKER ....>OUCH!<,
ARE CORRECT, YOU EVIL FEIND!
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Dr. Chris Evil
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Post subject: Talking in old comics! Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2010 1:08 pm |
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Pure Evil Gold!!
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TOMMY! I WASN'T READING COMICS IN 1962! BECAUSE I HADN'T BEEN BORN YET! BUT IT'S COOL THAT YOU DID! I APPRECIATE YOU CHIMING IN WITH YOUR 12 CENTS!
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Beachy
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Post subject: Talking in old comics! Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2010 4:40 pm |
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Mr. IMWANKO
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That meddlin kid
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Post subject: Talking in old comics! Posted: Fri Apr 16, 2010 1:08 pm |
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Biker Librarian
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We've got a thread on the board about "better in movies". Some things just work better in comics. All uppercase lettering is one of them!
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Francine
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Post subject: Talking in old comics! Posted: Tue May 04, 2010 9:01 pm |
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I'm fully in favor of using exclamation marks! Even when they're totally unnecessary and have no purpose! They're invaluable and should be included in the Punctuation Hall Of Fame! 
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GoogaMooga
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Post subject: Talking in old comics! Posted: Wed May 05, 2010 3:19 am |
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1966 and all that
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I know a guy in another comics forum who peppers his postings with exclamation points!
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Dr. Chris Evil
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Post subject: Talking in old comics! Posted: Wed May 05, 2010 10:09 am |
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Pure Evil Gold!!
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FRANCINE! YOU ARE! ABSOLUTELY! CORRECT!
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Dr. Chris Evil
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Post subject: Talking in old comics! Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2010 7:50 pm |
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Pure Evil Gold!!
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I WANT TO GIVE KELSIE AN OLD-FASHIONED COMIC BOOK WELCOME!!
SO, WELCOME KELSIE!!
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