fandomsecrets | [ SECRET POST #1463 ]

⌈ Secret Post #1463 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

01.

__________________________________________________

02.

__________________________________________________

03.

__________________________________________________

04.

__________________________________________________

05.

__________________________________________________

06.

__________________________________________________

07.

__________________________________________________

08.

__________________________________________________

09.

__________________________________________________

10.

__________________________________________________

11.

__________________________________________________

12.

__________________________________________________

13.

__________________________________________________

14.

__________________________________________________

15.

__________________________________________________

16.

__________________________________________________

17.

__________________________________________________

18.

__________________________________________________

19.

__________________________________________________

20.

__________________________________________________

21.

__________________________________________________

22.

__________________________________________________

23.

__________________________________________________

24.

__________________________________________________

25.

__________________________________________________

26.

__________________________________________________

27.

__________________________________________________

28.

__________________________________________________

29. [repeat]

__________________________________________________

30.

__________________________________________________

31.

__________________________________________________

32.

__________________________________________________

33.

__________________________________________________

34.

__________________________________________________

35.

__________________________________________________

36.

__________________________________________________

37.

__________________________________________________

38.

__________________________________________________

39.

__________________________________________________

40.

__________________________________________________

41.

__________________________________________________

42.

__________________________________________________

43.

__________________________________________________

44.

__________________________________________________

45.

__________________________________________________

46.

__________________________________________________

47.

__________________________________________________

48.

__________________________________________________

49.

__________________________________________________

50.

__________________________________________________

51.

__________________________________________________

52.

__________________________________________________

53.

__________________________________________________

54.

__________________________________________________

55.

__________________________________________________

56.

__________________________________________________

57.

__________________________________________________

58.

__________________________________________________

59.

__________________________________________________

60.

__________________________________________________

61.

__________________________________________________

62.

__________________________________________________

63.

__________________________________________________

64.

__________________________________________________

65.

__________________________________________________

66.

__________________________________________________

67.

__________________________________________________

68. [posted twice]

__________________________________________________

69.

__________________________________________________

70.

__________________________________________________

71.

__________________________________________________

72.

Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 07pages, 162 secrets from Secret Submission Post #209.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 2 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 2 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

14. http://i51.tinypic.com/2d85oc8.jpg

Just ignore it. Half the words they emphasize are hardly important these days. I'm pretty sure they do it just to look cool?

I don't notice it when I'm reading the comics themselves, but if the emphasis is left as is when a quote is typed up on some website or other, it does look incredibly silly.

Jojo's

Bizarre

Adventure

(no subject)

(Anonymous) - 2011-01-04 22:10 (UTC) - Expand

Sometimes the emphasis of a word can change the meaning or implication of a sentence. Maybe it's overused in comics, but it's never bugged me.

When you say 'Western comics', do you mean 'American comics'? Because I can't recall the same being done in European comics - though that may also have to do with the language, as I read them all in my native language and maybe the original English or French versions are different.

matitablu.livejournal.com - 2011-01-04 23:15 (UTC) - Expand

kallanda-lee.livejournal.com - 2011-01-04 23:20 (UTC) - Expand

serrende.livejournal.com - 2011-01-05 12:14 (UTC) - Expand

elica.livejournal.com - 2011-01-05 20:10 (UTC) - Expand

shidoikarji26.livejournal.com - 2011-01-06 05:20 (UTC) - Expand

I think that's more a tone-of-voice thing.

gethenian.livejournal.com - 2011-01-04 22:20 (UTC) - Expand

I have always wondered why comics do that, too. It mostly just confuses the hell out of me.

Yeah I hate this too. It makes everyone sound as if they think all the other characters are incredibly stupid and need all words to be enunciated very clearly, possibly accompanied by wild gesticulation, to ensure understanding. The emphasised words often aren't even important.

Hahaha! I've always wondered about this, because I can never seem to find a clear pattern. Is it all the proper nouns? The verbs? Every third word?

I hate that about American comics! It distracts me to death.

I hate it too. Especially since often the highlighting doesn't even make sense. Or at least not to me... I really hope, I can learn to ignore it.

This is one funny secret!

Do they still do that? Guess I haven't been reading as much. Or I tend not to notice.

I don't get the emphasis but to me American comics kinda look wrong without it. At any rate, I find it easy to ignore.

(Also, to my shame, I relied on this convention when I lettered one of my comics; it looks really wrong without it IDEK).

(Anonymous) - 2011-01-04 22:31 (UTC) - Expand

If by "important" you mean "seemingly random", yes.

OH MY GOD I HATE THIS. Not necessarily for the reason you gave (although it makes sense to me), it's just SO FUCKING DISTRACTING.

IDK, I think the bolding of random words is part of American comics' charm. But perhaps I am alone in thinking this?

(Anonymous) - 2011-01-04 22:48 (UTC) - Expand

This annoys me also, but not for your reasons. The bolding just seems entirely random and it gave me a headache.

I've always thought it was weird how they emphasized the randomest things but I usually don't really notice anymore when I'm reading a comic. I'm so used to it by now that it'd be weird without it, actually.

Also sometimes I like to read comic books aloud and emphasize everything as written for the lulz.

I think this secret would benefit from the top half being re-bolded. I'd suggest

ONE reason why
I NEVER got into WESTERN comics
is because they seem to

Or

one REASON why

the why is like the one word out of those three that is not prettier accented…also it's not important.

LOL, because "Western comics" are all the same, right? Uhm, yeah.
I have a big collection of lovely American and European comics that have no single word accended. I think you'll find this phenomenon mostly in superhero stuff.

DUDE. I don't read comics often, but I was reading Watchmen for the first time yesterday. I was JUST thinking about this. Get out of my brain. Creepin' me out man.

I don't read much Western comics, but this always bothers me too. They're not even word that you'd naturally put emphasis on while speaking either, but the voice in my head always puts emphasis on them and it just sounds really wonky. A lot of times, the words being bolded aren't even important either.

It used to bug me since I would wonder if I should be stressing the sound of the or other random words in my head that don't seem that important.

It does make for amusing read alongs on skype though. Everyone sounds like Nicholas Cage.