[ SECRET POST #2438 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2438 ⌋

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

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Comments

[fscom]

03. http://img821.imageshack.us/img821/7349/9r21.jpg

[nailtek]

I always have this issue when I switch from reading western/manga to the other. Takes a while before I realize "wait no, that gets read the other way".

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not sure it is much to do with manga v western comics, but more the scripting in western comics is overdone compared with the more simple manga conversations. In western comics you'll have half a dozen speech bubbles and a couple of narrator boxes per frame, all cluttering it up and often not ordered in any continuity because the artist had to squish as much in as possible. Manga panels are just less crowded.

[(Anonymous)]

omg yes this bothers me so much

[blunderbuss]

Yeah, one trait that I enjoy about manga is that it's much more about SHOW than TELL, and will only use narration if necessary.

[(Anonymous)]

What 'Western' comics are you reading? Only Cape shit?
I'm an avid reader of various kinds of French, Belgian and some Italian and even German comics and the entire stilted dialogue crap that is in Cape Comics is almost non-existant in most modern, Central-European comics.
And yet they are still 'Western'.

Secret 3 - Western comics

[transcriptanon]

[Picture is Starfire or Koriandr from the DC comic books. She is an humanoid alien with light orange skin and wild wavy dark red hair. Her eyes are entirely green. She has slight muscular tone an dis wearing a very light purple armor consisting of shoulder pieces connected together, straps vertically covering the middle of her breasts and crotch and arm guards extending from her wrists up to her elbows. She has a large circular gem of sorts on her chest, with small yellow circles around, like a flower or sun. There is a city behind her (she appears to be flying), and she is raising a fist upwards as there are narration boxes saying: "Created by Mary Wolfman and George Perez" "What are you doing here on Earth, Koriandr of Tamaran? This planet isn't your home." "This city below you isn't glorious Tamarus, whose high spires cut through sweet-smelling golden skies." "To be read immediately after the events in Titans #114" (or 119, it's a bit too small to read clearly.)]

I was a huge DC fan back in the day. Now, I have read so much manga that I genuinely have trouble remembering what direction to go when reading Western-style comics.

Re: Secret 3 - Western comics

[(Anonymous)]

Marv Wolfman, not Mary.

Re: Secret 3 - Western comics

[transcriptanon]

Ah, thank you! I had a little difficulty figuring out some of the letters there.

[(Anonymous)]

and I guess it doesn't help that many comics break/forget the actual order and have you reading some bubbles down to top and right to left

[dragonimp]

It's even worse when I'm reading something online. I don't even have the front and back covers and the physical turing of the pages to remind me which direction I'm supposed to be reading.

[(Anonymous)]

I flow seamlessly from manga reading to comic reading, my brain adjustes automatically.

[(Anonymous)]

Spiffy. You want a cookie or something?

[(Anonymous)]

I have the same issue, so you're not alone op.

I also really hate when I'm reading a manga scanlation that starts off the normal way (right to left) then suddenly it's flipped to the western way (left to right) with no warning.

[(Anonymous)]

I do this. I do this so hard. Any comic books I read I always default from right to left since I've been reading manga for so long now, never having got much into western comics. :\ Reading books is easy enough to switch back and forth between--my second language reads right to left--but I'm always trying to read comics right to left. Awkward.

[(Anonymous)]

I've done one worse and picked up books and tried to open them backwards. This is what happens when you read nothing but Japanese novels for a few months.

[(Anonymous)]

I seem to read everything backwards.

Well, at least flip through books backwards.