We get a nice reunion for everyone before half of the characters disappear and and Lian shows up near the missing Ollie fighting off Manhunters and getting marooned along with him when he destroys their only way home. This allows you, then, to fill up the entire story pages with, well, you know, STORY.It’s all about family…, wait, are we sure Vin Diesel didn’t write the comic? With Oliver Queen missing, Roy Harper, Connor Hawke, and Black Canary go looking for another member of their family which leads to reuniting Roy with his no longer dead daughter Lian now doing her own vigilante thing in Alleytown under the name Cheshire Cat. This is key because it allows you to avoid extraneous action that might take away from your plot. Therefore, Doyle mastered the art of centering a story around a conversation. However, even though you can do ANYTHING, you're constrained by the fact that these are inherently short stories that make up the vast majority of Archie comics.
You have to fit everything into the realm of a group of teenagers who can never TRULY change, but at the same time, you can pretty much do ANYTHING you want with them. The Archie format is a fascinating one to me because it is both limiting and especially freeing. We're talking welllll into the thousands.
Today, we look at how much the legendary Archie writer, Frank Doyle, mastered the art of conversation in his comics.įrank Doyle wrote more Archie stories than any other person in history and likely is way at the top for the most comic book stories written by ANY person.
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