Should superhero comic dialogue be more purple or beige?
>>147126760im not even sure what youre asking, you mean like the font colour?
>>147126767Purple as in purple prose, which is more flowery and wordy, bloated with adjectives and adverbs and descriptive and figurative terms and phrases. When done right, it makes reading more flavorful, but it can also slow down any momentum.Beige as in beige prose, which is concise, brief. A little can say a lot.
>>147126760What the fuck
>>147126760whatever bendis isn't, that's what it should be
>>147126760Black
I generally like the more theatrical grander speech. We're dealing with larger than life characters in larger than life situations.
>>147126760There's NOTHING "purple" about that.
>>147129290It's brown.
>>147126760It depends but generally comics should work in more show don't tell, it's a visual medium after all.
>>147126834>>147126760In that case it ought to be a mix of both, i like reading shit that can be straight to the point but when its the right moment it gets all flowery and poetic just to drive a moment home or something. I guess Starman could be like that sometimes.
>>147126760>redditors will look at Silver and Bronze Age comics and say "yikes, these are way too wordy, this is meant to be a comic book!" and then turn around and read comics like this
