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Post by Nutcase65 on Mar 16, 2007 13:13:08 GMT -5
In your opinion, what is the most overused flashback in comics? Marvel or otherwise. I think they use Cap remembering Bucky getting blown up wayyyyy too much. Even in the later years. It always takes three pages to get thorugh the flashback and I'm sitting there going "oh no, not again" I hope this doesn't make some of the purists irate with me.  |
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Post by Doctor Doom on Mar 16, 2007 14:15:17 GMT -5
Well we see "Cap is unfrozen from the ice!" an enormous amount, but it's so important I can live with it. Honestly, I'm not sure because if it's used over and over again- "death" of Bucky, Unfreezing of Cap, Doom/Richards in college, it tends to be because of how good it was.
I'd maybe say death of Gwen Stacy. I mean it's brought up WAAAY too often and he goes to that bridge too much. You know it's too far when a random event which happened to Spider-Man is being referenced in a deep discussion between Cap and Iron Man. (Casualties of War special)
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Post by uberwolf on Mar 16, 2007 16:16:35 GMT -5
Let's not forget the death of Uncle Ben. A major point for the creation of Spiderman but the power and responsibilty phrase has gotten very overused
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Post by The Night Phantom on Mar 16, 2007 22:18:46 GMT -5
Let's not forget the death of Uncle Ben. A major point for the creation of Spiderman but the power and responsibilty phrase has gotten very overused That reminds me of some lyrics from one of the songs on “Weird Al” Yankovic’s album Poodle Hat, “Ode to a Superhero”, which follows the tune of Billy Joel’s “Piano Man” while sending up the first Spider-Man movie: |
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Post by dlw66 on Mar 16, 2007 22:41:31 GMT -5
The death of Bruce Wayne's parents. With a nearly 70-year history, can anything top that?
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Post by Nutcase65 on Mar 17, 2007 18:36:33 GMT -5
yeah, I wasn't thinking outside of the MU. Bruce Waynes parents is definitely wayyy up there.
There comes a point where it's like "We know already" it's very tragic, boo hoo hoo, go smack a bad guy.
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Post by dlw66 on Mar 17, 2007 19:47:52 GMT -5
The only defense I would make for any of these flashbacks is that at some point the 10-year olds joining the comic reading/collecting community have to know how it all began.
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Post by Doctor Bong on Mar 18, 2007 18:44:05 GMT -5
The death of Bruce Wayne's parents. With a nearly 70-year history, can anything top that? The rocket carrying away baby Kal-El as Krypton is destroyed...? |
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Post by Shiryu on Mar 21, 2007 19:00:26 GMT -5
Uhm... none, really. Those flashbacks are defining moments for the characters, and there is always the chance that new readers don't know about them. Since they don't take too much space either, they don't bother me.
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Post by Yellowjacket on Mar 23, 2007 3:54:03 GMT -5
Yes, but I think the right term is "when" they do not take too much space. For example, a story with 50 or more percentage flashback share has seldom been good.
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Post by Nutcase65 on Mar 23, 2007 8:58:44 GMT -5
Shiryu, I agree with what you say about the need to replay them to give new readers a sense of history. But I use the term 'overused' specifiacally.
The reason is I just got finished going through all of the back issues of Captain America and for almost 200 issues you had them alternate between Bucky going boom and Cap getting thawed out.
They don't seem to do it as often anymore. But was it really necessary to see Batmans parents get popped on a monthly basis. That's why I was going for overuse.
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