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Why You Should Listen To The Voices In Your Head

Published Sun, 01 Nov 2015 14:00:31 -0600

Millicent Barnes writes,

Since comics began the internal monologue has been as much a part of the medium as its more popular sibling the thought bubble.

It's the first thing you read in any classic DC or Marvel story and it's the last chill you remember from the legendary banned EC horror vaults.

Monologue, traditionally the voice inside a character's head, was crucial in drawing the reader in. Recent years have seen this narrative device derided in favour of long winded thought bubble exposition where in most cases a single line of monologue succinctly and successfully tells you what's happening and how everyone feels about it.

A Kickstarter from SjMcCune sets out to readdress this imbalance.

The comic centres around a Hitchcockian heroine and races across a succession of WTF now scenarios and it's all told through the narrative device of the internal monologue.

The book is already funded and has past a few stretch goals so you are guaranteed to get some FREE extras if you pledge PLUS there's an additional exclusive offer below for BLEEDING COOL readers!

So if you don't want to put up with pages upon pages of someone trying to tell someone else they fancy them a bit try Monologue.

Exclusive offer to Bleeding Cool

After you pledge Tweet BLECO to @city_war and get TWO Graphic Novels FREE instantly

City War – Vol 2 – Short Stories & City War – Vol 3 – The Queens Of Ruin

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