What would happen

[ajasont]

...if we, as readers of comix, just stopped reading Marvel and DC books

Comments

[black13]

But I *want* to tell superhero stories.

If I want to write horror or mystery or fantasy or whatever, I do that in prose.

[ajasont]

But you could write superheroes in prose, too. Yes, you lose some of the color aspect, some of the SCALE, when you use Wonder Woman or Superman maybe, even Spider-Man, but don't you think Batman works, I mean really WORKS, in prose? He's a detective after all. Both Poe and Doyle wrote lasting (Doyle moreso, I suppose, but DuPin is original to the species) detective fiction.

I'm just saying...

[black13]

You've clearly not read my Midnight Sentinel stories.

And yes, some kind of superheroes work in prose. Doc Savage, The Shadow, to name just two. Batman would. I think the Punisher would work very well.

But for some characters (you mentioned some), you need the four-color scale of visual storytelling.