Jay-the-Great

Hey kids! Here's a little discussion for my writers and comic fans out there: I'm sitting in my creative writing class right now and we're in the middle of our section on script writing. Now, we're discussing dialogue and how you should use it sparingly. This is obvious, since in movies actions speak louder than words. However, I'm thinking about comic scripts now and wondering: Should you fight to use as little dialogue as possible the same way you do for screenplays? Or should a writer take advantage of the symbiotic relationship that exists between words and images in comics? Do people prefer to read a comic as a combination of images an