Comments on: “You just keep going. You keep trying to take over the world.” http://wrightopinion.com/2008/01/14/book-review-soon-i-will-be-invincible/ I read comics and then write about them. Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:19:11 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Barry Deutsch http://wrightopinion.com/2008/01/14/book-review-soon-i-will-be-invincible/#comment-489 Barry Deutsch Fri, 01 Feb 2008 16:27:07 +0000 http://thewrightopinion.wordpress.com/2008/01/14/%e2%80%9cyou-just-keep-going-you-keep-trying-to-take-over-the-world%e2%80%9d/#comment-489 <blockquote>Very infrequent is the comic that suggests rich inner lives for any of its characters; Concrete is the only one that immediately springs to mind.</blockquote> This sentence is such a vast overstatement, I think you must have intended to put the phrase "using thought balloons" between "characters" and the semi-colon. I'd say the comic that has been the most innovative in its use of thought balloons to depict inner life is Cerebus, which, despite its insurmountable flaws, is full of formal merits.

Very infrequent is the comic that suggests rich inner lives for any of its characters; Concrete is the only one that immediately springs to mind.

This sentence is such a vast overstatement, I think you must have intended to put the phrase “using thought balloons” between “characters” and the semi-colon.

I’d say the comic that has been the most innovative in its use of thought balloons to depict inner life is Cerebus, which, despite its insurmountable flaws, is full of formal merits.

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