TwilightEL
Well-Known Member
I'm not sure if this deserves its own thread, but I've been noticing an annoying trend in comic book fight scenes.
Ultimate Power #2 is just one big fight scene, which is not a problem... in the hands of a good author and a good artist, that is. It was just a big jumble of people running around, other than a few neat bits like Blur punching Thing.
In a better book, that issue would've told us the powers of all of the Squadron members and a bit of their relationship to each other as well as a recap of all the Ultimate characters who appeared.
The same thing happened in CW #3, though to be fair there were dozens of characters in that fight and it was elaborated on in the tie-ins.
Honestly, with a lot of these scenes, the only thing in common between panels is the characters and the setting. Any time from two seconds to two minutes could take place between drawings (and it didn't help that Land drew UP #3). There's no consistency in where the characters are fighting. It's hard to come up with well-choreographed scenes with lots of characters, but I've read comics where not only do battles take place between huge teams, each character is given a distinctive fighting style and used their powers in interesting ways.
It also seems like rather than having villains with creative powers, the writers just make them ridiculously powerful. Instead of coming up with a villain whose power challenges the hero and makes them use their brain and skills to defeat them, the writers simply declare "My new character is as strong as the Hulk!"
I just wish that instead of continuing the trend of people with the standard super strong, super durable, super agile set of powers duking it out in boring, disjointed scenes, authors would write clever villains with unique gimmicks fighting heroes who use their own powers in a creative, consistent style.
Ultimate Power #2 is just one big fight scene, which is not a problem... in the hands of a good author and a good artist, that is. It was just a big jumble of people running around, other than a few neat bits like Blur punching Thing.
In a better book, that issue would've told us the powers of all of the Squadron members and a bit of their relationship to each other as well as a recap of all the Ultimate characters who appeared.
The same thing happened in CW #3, though to be fair there were dozens of characters in that fight and it was elaborated on in the tie-ins.
Honestly, with a lot of these scenes, the only thing in common between panels is the characters and the setting. Any time from two seconds to two minutes could take place between drawings (and it didn't help that Land drew UP #3). There's no consistency in where the characters are fighting. It's hard to come up with well-choreographed scenes with lots of characters, but I've read comics where not only do battles take place between huge teams, each character is given a distinctive fighting style and used their powers in interesting ways.
It also seems like rather than having villains with creative powers, the writers just make them ridiculously powerful. Instead of coming up with a villain whose power challenges the hero and makes them use their brain and skills to defeat them, the writers simply declare "My new character is as strong as the Hulk!"
I just wish that instead of continuing the trend of people with the standard super strong, super durable, super agile set of powers duking it out in boring, disjointed scenes, authors would write clever villains with unique gimmicks fighting heroes who use their own powers in a creative, consistent style.