teatotally replied to your post: Sine, I'm trying to get into 616 comicsverse...
I think I get what OP is saying—it drives me nuts that they stress the wrong words a lot of times. Like no one would be hitting the particular words they choose. If I was the copy editor I’d be questioning them all the time about why they’re emphasizing those particular words. ��
I get your point! But I don’t think they’re generally trying to stress words to match a speech pattern -- I mean, some of them are, but not most of the time. I think they’re just trying to highlight things that you need to know while you’re reading, like who the villain is, or if there’s something important that you need to look at in this panel, even if no one’s going to actually say it like that.
Like, to pick a random example from this week’s Avengers: Loki Unleashed:
I know, this one isn’t really that egregious, but I had it open, and it’s by an an older writer, so the older trends are more prevalent.
Would a regular person stress it that way in speech? No, probably not. But it tells you that in this panel Loki has a crystal (which he does) and you the reader should be paying attention to that when you’re looking at the art, and furthermore it’s his scrying sphere, and you should probably know that too.
I mean, if I were italicizing this as written speech I’d probably go for, like, “You’ve hardly spoken all day” and “as you know full well,” but comics aren’t necessarily trying to get that across; they’re helping cue you with how you read art.
That’s what I think, anyway.
