In a 22-page comic, figuring an average of four to five panels a page and a couple of … - Mark Waid

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This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

Mark Waid

In a 22-page comic, figuring an average of four to five panels a page and a couple of full-page shots, a writer has maybe a hundred panels at most to tell a story, so every panel he wastes conveying a. ) something I already know, b. ) something that's a cute gag but does nothing to reveal plot or character, or c. ) something I don't need to know is a demonstration of lousy craft.

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Socrates should have written comics.

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Super-heroes were created to represent the best in all of us. We should aspire to match their nobility, not their ability to shoot big chrome guns.

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One of the greatest sins in any story is false suspense. The kind of 'suspense' that disintegrates the moment you give your reader one second to think about it. And it's an easy trap to fall into, so watch carefully for it. If your story hinges on the question, 'Will Superman be pushed so far in his battle against Lex Luthor that he'll have to kill him?', or if your big cliffhanger moment is, 'Wow, is Spider-Man really dead this time?', then I understand Food Lion is hiring.

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It's not often that I get to remember and use phrases like "on out my farm" or "powerful ugly" in modern scripts.

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Comics are expensive. Don’t make me resent the money I spend buying yours. Every single moment in your script must either move the story along or demonstrate something important about the characters — preferably both — and every panel that does neither is a sloppy waste of space.

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