tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4142199900369238852.post2765468552476076290..comments2024-03-25T05:26:47.764-04:00Comments on The Peerless Power of Comics!: Kang, The Time Lord!Comicsfanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10064955427593820783noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4142199900369238852.post-72609571971140160512014-09-13T19:59:04.939-04:002014-09-13T19:59:04.939-04:00And to extend your list of examples, Murray, we mi...And to extend your list of examples, Murray, we might also still be debating how Gwen Stacy died if it weren't for a helpful and well-timed sound effect. (Gee, I hope this doesn't start an avalanche of gruesome sound effects in future stories.)<br />Comicsfanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10064955427593820783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4142199900369238852.post-43254472425925000852014-09-13T17:25:27.365-04:002014-09-13T17:25:27.365-04:00I'm with Comicsfan on this one. Every punch (...I'm with Comicsfan on this one. Every punch (<i>Batman</i> credits, anyone?) doesn't need a sound effect, but the building-fall-down-go-boom slams surely do. And where would the fun be if we didn't have the occasional webshooter "thwip", retractable claws "snikt" or a teleporting "bamf"?Murrayhttp://www.murraylindsay.ca/author_site.htmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4142199900369238852.post-48649519499858814832014-09-12T20:15:13.349-04:002014-09-12T20:15:13.349-04:00Actually, Colin, I was thinking while writing abou...Actually, Colin, I was thinking while writing about that <a href="http://peerlesspower.blogspot.com/2014/08/with-hammer-in-hand.html" rel="nofollow">Thor vs. Red Hulk story</a> (which also was "soundless") how much better the story might have been with sound effects to punctuate the bold statements of the two characters. All the while, it felt to me like something was missing--probably because every Thor vs. Hulk story I'd read up to that point had a generous amount of awesome sound effects to make the match-up come across as more exciting--that each of them was going for broke, and neither was asking for quarter. Thomas may have been onto something with Conan, who wasn't super-powered and who didn't deliver blows with a "THOOOMM!"--but if a character is going to bring down a building with a punch, I want that punch to reverberate.<br />Comicsfanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10064955427593820783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4142199900369238852.post-74261005451052499172014-09-12T08:08:56.889-04:002014-09-12T08:08:56.889-04:00Thanks for that link CF, it was very amusing but N...Thanks for that link CF, it was very amusing but Nightcrawler's "bamf" is a classic and is surely above criticism (and nobody's ever seen a teleportation so maybe it DOES go bamf). Kid Robson's blog recently had a clip of Roy Thomas talking about Conan and he (RT) said that his Conan stories never had any sound effects at all which I'd never even noticed - perhaps this shows that sound effects in comics aren't really necessary as nobody would ever have missed them if they hadn't been invented.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com