Yeah. Nobody else seemed to be able to turn on the fountain of CRAZY like Jack did. Everyone else, they pick it up and insist on things making sense. Kirby's storytelling pace was insane and quite arguably terrible, but he made it work by having it be a torrent of new things.
When you start wanting to have nuanced characters, things have to slow down.
The "Hunger Dogs" graphic novel that closes the Fourth World is really strange because it's full of Kirby - but at a much slower pace. One expression stretches over several panels into a change of expression; there are no captions that tell half the story. It just doesn't feel like Jack.
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Date: 2009-02-13 12:11 am (UTC)When you start wanting to have nuanced characters, things have to slow down.
The "Hunger Dogs" graphic novel that closes the Fourth World is really strange because it's full of Kirby - but at a much slower pace. One expression stretches over several panels into a change of expression; there are no captions that tell half the story. It just doesn't feel like Jack.