Anyways, is it just me or does american comics seem to have the issue with the fucking dialogue being too heavy or awkward more often than the european/japanese comics? I remember lengthy expositions being a thing throughout the ages, but this bullshit seems to have been popularized with Claremont's soap opera X-Men and then ramped up into goyslop with Bendis and Whedon.
Not even the content of dialogue, but how to present it, american comics (and somewhat european comics too) are fucking archaic. you know the speech bubble? They use the tail so much and they stretch it so much, showcasing they dont trust the reader to read it correctly
Lets use the neal adams comic again, see the first bubble, you have it in front of the character and also using a long tail to connect (AND THIS IS THE SAME WRITER AND ARTIST, SO COMPOSE THE PAGE BETTER)
Sew how tiny the tail is on manga, they function as a point to point the origin of the speech, in the fourth panel, there is no confusion to who is saying what, and it is a tiny panel in a bigger page.
A tiny tail works as much of you compose the page better, but since comics in US are made by almost a committee, you have guys with no experience in composing pages since the lettering is done by other guy.
And sometimes the indication of the tail is done inside the balloon, pointing to the speaker. Couldn't find the images to illustrate.
The inexistence of auxiliary dialogue like in this fourth panel where the text can be different from the one inside the bubble and have no connection with the one inside
And how basically All text which aren't onomatopoeias must be inside a thought, dialogue or other type of box, not having any other type to see the information.
It is basically the same formula, so you don't experiment like using mini faces inside the dialogue like this page
Or this:
@Alexander Thaut
Finished reading the Cimarronin mini and the sequel. Bad comic, it tries to do so much and is not focused at all, they change the artist in the sequel and the art is terrible and the action sucks fucking dick hard. You get a nice idea of a fish out of the water like putting a ronin in new spain but then you have the revenge story of slave negros in americas, a Chinese princess, the jesuit and the ronin, all of them have backstories and the Chinese princess is one of the mary sue types who wins everything and need no help. It was an unfocused mess that after the first mini ends, get even mote characters and their backstory and the main plot gets resolved in a shitty way.
To not even say about the lack of historical research of using the wrong Portugal flag and how they cant decide on how to make characters communicate since it is people from different parts of the world with different languages, sometimes you get Chinese text, Japanese kana but all characters can communicate easily by using Spanish (even when Spanish wasn't used to commerce, they would leave people there to learn their language and mediate the trade.
In the end it was a boring story of a colonized people uprising against the Spanish in Mexico that tries to do much without knowing the limitations of itself. For a similar idea that isn't executed like shit, read Chinaman
Edit: The best part was the first chapter where the ronin investigate a crime scene by looking at the dead people and the tools used so he deduced it was the Chinese who killed those people. But then everything gets worse and worse.
