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I kind of hate over-explanation in comics.
If you need three adjectives to describe something, then you've probably chosen the wrong something.
How often one reads a contemporary full-length novel and thinks quietly, mutinously, that it would have worked out better at half or a third the length.
Building a mechanical device for its appearance is like putting lace on a bowling ball.
I don't like the info-dump, as it's known.
There is a fine line between something that's gratuitous, that's unnecessary.
In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.
It's guff. It doesn't advance the action. It makes for nice fat books such as the American market thrives on, but it doesn't actually get you anywhere.
Writers, directors often can get too precious with their words.
