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Originally Posted by Norrin Radd
Comics don't build your reading or comprehension skills? My nephew is two years old, barely. The doctors he sees have said he has comprehension and speaking ability of a five or six year old. He doesn't read War and Peace, he reads Spider-Man (The kids ones obviously), Peppa Pig and The Backyardigans. He learned to distinguish that when letters are typed larger and bolder, it is meant to depict rise in volume or what not. So don't sit there making such b.s. claims, please.
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Good job, you just proved that comics are beneficial to 2 year olds, so are pop-up books. Why don't we read comics in school then? Why must we read books?
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Originally Posted by Norrin Radd
Books are impossible to recreate as creatively because each reader interprets everything differently, so all you ever get is the director's interpretation of what he read.
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How is that a bad thing? That's a good thing. At least it gets our minds going.
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Watchmen proves that if you get dragged through it at so many frames per second, it fails, IMO.
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Fixed it for you.
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Originally Posted by Norrin Radd
How is ME spending that much money on a comic...an indication of the COMIC being a non-productive medium? Surely, if anything, it would be ME with the problem, not the comic. It would.
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Do you ever see people spend ~$275 on a novel? I'm sure there are MANY people out there who spend that much money on comics. Once you get into them enough, you kind of get brainwashed into spending that much, blame the medium, not yourself.
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Originally Posted by Norrin Radd
Comics are massively productive and influential. To the point that they inspire moviemakers to adapt them, which...you claim is the more productive medium, despite them costing more and conveying...less. That means that...you're flat-out wrong...and I'm right.
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I claimed that movies were a more productive medium than comics? Really? Where? I said books were.
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It's an elitist medium, isn't it? Yes. Way more popular NOW, but still very much a cult hobby. It has spent most of its time being shunned by the masses, it took writers like Alan Moore to show the world that comics can be a truly amazing medium to be taken seriously. So, when people start to decide, decades and decades on that comics are cool and want to like them, we have every right to adopt a bit of "Oh, so we're cool enough now, are we?".
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(offtopic) To be honest, the reason it's a cult hobby is because if you don't know anything about them it's almost impossible to get into them. Comics could be a lot more mainstream if it weren't for this.
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This is precisely why I refuse to take blame for people getting mad at me in debates; if you can't back yourself up, don't get involved at all. Especially do not get mad at me for you looking foolish.
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I'm not mad, I just think you're not making any sense.