Captain Kurt wrote on Dec 23
rd, 2009 at 1:18am:
Majestic wrote on Dec 22
nd, 2009 at 6:35pm:
There's not much way to show what's going on inside a character's head, other than what we see in thought bubbles.
That remark makes me smile, Majestic
, since we see thought balloons all the time in comics. It's like saying it's hard to know what color a hero's costume happens to be, other than what we see in the pictures.
But I know what you meant.
I'll try to track down Captain Marvel like you suggested. Thanks, Majestic. You have a Merry Christmas!
Yes, I probably wasn't as clear with that as I meant to be. Of course we can see the exact contents of what is shown, but what I
meant was:
Even though we see
some of what a character is thinking (via thought bubbles), it doesn't mean we're privvy to
everything going on "inside" that character. In other words, Spider-Man might say "Holy cow, that was close" (when a bullet goes whizzing by his head), but there's no real way to gauge whether he felt exhilerated, scared out of his mind, petrified beyond belief, or hardly worried. And even if the writer and artist convey to us the proper emotion (via body language, facial expression, and dialog), we still don't really know - let's say on a scale of 1 to 10 - whether that fear is at a "3" or a "9".
So we see
some of what they are thinking and feeling, but we rarely get the
whole of what's going in their noggins (with some wordy writers like Chris Claremont, we might see 90% of it, though).
Hopefully that explains what I meant a little better.
And Merry Christmas to you, too (and to everyone else here!).