teatotally replied to your post: Sine, I'm trying to get into 616 comicsverse...
I think I get what OP is sayingāit 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 Iād be questioning them all the time about why theyāre emphasizing those particular words. ļæ½ļæ½
I get your point! But I donāt think theyāre generally trying to stress words to match a speech pattern -- I mean, some of them are, but not most of the time. I think theyāre just trying to highlight things that you need to know while youāre reading, like who the villain is, or if thereās something important that you need to look at in this panel, even if no oneās going to actually say it like that.
Like, to pick a random example from this weekās Avengers: Loki Unleashed:
I know, this one isnāt really that egregious, but I had it open, and itās 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 youāre looking at the art, and furthermore itās his scrying sphere, and you should probably know that too.
I mean, if I were italicizing this as written speech Iād probably go for, like,Ā āYouāve hardly spokenĀ all dayā andĀ āas you know full well,ā but comics arenāt necessarily trying to get that across; theyāre helping cue you with how you read art.
Thatās what I think, anyway.
