Comments on: Five for Thursday: thoughts on TCR’s five biases http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2009/10/five-for-thursday-thoughts-on-tcrs-five-biases/ Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:41:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: R. M. Rhodes http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2009/10/five-for-thursday-thoughts-on-tcrs-five-biases/comment-page-1/#comment-17534 R. M. Rhodes Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:28:41 +0000 http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/?p=23819#comment-17534 Regarding point 3: One of the things that comics does very well is play with time and sequence. Chopping stories into episodes is, perhaps, the natural extension of the panel to panel and page to page interplay of the storytelling experience. I understand that the current 22 page pamphlet came out of a marketing and logistics decision, but even something as simple as Little Nemo in Slumberland had an episodic format. I read Spurgeon's bias to be that he expects comic stories to be serialized in some way, shape or form. Obviously, self-contained stories are great, but there is always the expectation that there is going to be a sequel - so much so that the idea of a sequel to Watchmen has become a running joke (and a literal joke in the case of Dark Knight Returns). Regarding point 3: One of the things that comics does very well is play with time and sequence. Chopping stories into episodes is, perhaps, the natural extension of the panel to panel and page to page interplay of the storytelling experience. I understand that the current 22 page pamphlet came out of a marketing and logistics decision, but even something as simple as Little Nemo in Slumberland had an episodic format.

I read Spurgeon’s bias to be that he expects comic stories to be serialized in some way, shape or form. Obviously, self-contained stories are great, but there is always the expectation that there is going to be a sequel – so much so that the idea of a sequel to Watchmen has become a running joke (and a literal joke in the case of Dark Knight Returns).

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