| | | houdini (from a billion years ago): One thing that I'm not sure about is the continuing motif of the "intro page". After a while in the first series I did feel that it was kind of grating on me a bit. It's a clever device and all, and handy for reminding you who the characters are. Moreover, Grist's more or less found a way to integrate it comparatively seamlessly with his narrative style. But still the repeated use gets to me.
I've been thinking about the use of introductory pages through the trade -- and I'd imagine it's a lot less jarring in the singles, frankly, but the trade has the intro page equivalent of a machine gun, quite honestly.
I like them and I don't. They're frenetic and capture the idea that a lot of these characters never much made it past soundbyte personalities prior (and even during) the series.
Reminds me a lot -- I'm thinking in particular of the Jigsaw Man story starring the officers of Q -- of the Doom Patrol, actually. |
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