A few elements that, applied in spare, careful amounts, make any comic better, more satisfying, more pleasing. The
spice rack, if you will, of the four-color world.
- Wonder Dogs.
- The Generation X Quadrivium: Ninjas, Robots, Monkeys, Pirates.
- Big-headed aliens.
- Ads for selling “Grit.”
- Octopi, earthly and otherwise.
- Jimmy Olsen getting hit in the head and thinking he’s a viking.
- Elves with guns.
- Time-travelling gorillas.
Should they be overapplied, ruin is certain. But ah! Careful application of these provide a vigorous zest to any story, be it a Silver Age tale of Communist spies out to subvert capitalism or a modern alterno-indy comic about how the foolish, myopic world fails to understand the genius of the tormented nerd.
Spot on. Concise. It's hard to come up with additions that don't seem second-tier to these.
ReplyDeleteBut I really wanted to mention how amusing I found the implied over-enunciation of "LOOK, FELLOWS!"