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Hi guys!
I already commended you on your facebook group, but it seems you no longer check it out. Anyway, I wanted to see if you share my opinion on a certain subject. It has recently occured to me that we are at the doorstep of a new era in the ongoing development of mainstream comics. The 90’s were the age of the artist, the early 2000s were the Age of the writer, and if things go the way they are now, the 2010s are going to be the Age of the Editor.
Seeing how something that began as a once-in-a-lifetime thing then became a yearly tradition (the summer event), and now it is no longer an extraordinary thing but like the permanent status of mainstream titles, with one event tying into the next with little to none intervals (they sometimes even overlap) I wonder how much control of the books is left in the writers’ hands. One is hard pressed to find an issue of an iconic superhero book that is not tied with the current “world-shaking event”, so it becomes kinda like anime, where what you are getting are not individual episodes but a loooooooooooooooooooooooooooong story that has been cut into 22-minute (or page) clips for the public’s and the distributor’s convenience. Every title has a subtitle and it seems every story arc of any particular book has a logo and an advertising campaign. And the reader/viewer is left with the feeling that the story could have been told in much fewer panels.
I blame this on decompression.
Well guys, tell me what you think and best of luck!