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Monday Runaround – Stephen King Told "No Thought Bubbles!"

Published Mon, 15 Mar 2010 07:56:10 -0500

Last updated Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:17:56 -0500

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I go back to that thing about how vampires are terrifically sexy from the neck up and dead from the waist down, because the original vampire thing, the whole element of that was oral, you know? It was basically giving girls hickeys in the middle of the night.

He also lets us know that, rather than a stylistic creator choice, the lack of thought bubbles in comics is a mandated company one.

"I got this kind of embarrassed call from the editors saying, 'Ah, Steve, we don't do that anymore.' 'You don't do that anymore?' I said. 'No, when the characters speak, they speak. If they're thinking, you try to put that across in the narration, in the little narration boxes.'" So King happily re-wrote to fit the new style—though he still laments the loss of the thought bubble. "I think it's a shame to lose that arrow out of your quiver. One of the nice things about the written word as opposed to the spoken word in a movie is that you can go into a character's thoughts. You do it in books all the time, right?"