DangerousHabits

November 20, 2012 5:09 pm Does this come out every week now or something?

June 8, 2012 4:37 pm Bonus question: Greg Land. At a glance it seems like it's fine but then you realise it's got no more substance than a page from a trashy magazine

October 27, 2010 10:42 am

Really great article. The thing I was most pleased to see was the mention of some of the problems with the series. I really enjoy the series and have read the first 10 trades but whilst reading the first couple I found although I liked the story some of the dialogue was pretty awful to the point where it pulled me out a bit, but that faded as I worked my way through them, I read trades 1-8 in about a month, and my absolute favourite stuff was the period that they were at the prison.

But when I recently read trades 9-10 after about a year of not having read anything from the series it was back plain as day, these characters just have a tendency to speak in long monologues about how they're feeling with no prompting and in a stilted unrealistic way often to people they barely know. I'm a scriptwriter with a few shorts to my name etc. and the on the Uni course I took we would have been absolutely battered for writing dialogue like this.

Sorry this sounds like a really negative post about the series but I'm just interested to know if anyone else thinks the dialogue isn't always the best and more importantly how good must the story be for me to enjoy it so much when the dialogue so regularly grates on me?

Can't wait to see the first series of the TV show and really hope it takes off as the story just goes from strength to strength, just be nice if Kirkman cut down on the monologues.