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Brubaker's sublime Captain
America run is prime example
of this new school of
storytelling |
Welcome to Crakkajamma's first ever opinion piece, where I notice a new trend emerging in comics which I will dub "writing for the omnibus." But first, a quick history lesson. From comics' inception through the late 70's, the general trend for storytelling in comics was the quick one-and-done or maybe the exciting cliffhanger-fueled two-parter. Occasionally, stories with a truly grand scope would merit three or more parts, but these were few and far between (see the seminal
Coming of Galactus story from Fantastic Four). As the 70's drew to a close and the famously "grimdark" 80's swung in, so did the graphic novel. Sometimes, the stories were broken up into issues and released that way initially, but the success of graphic novels in this era was largely in the realm of standalone, independent stories (
Maus, Dark Knight Returns, Watchmen).
