Well? If you were to take the average (yeah, what IS average?) comic today and turn it into a short story w/o pictures, how long would it be? Assume you pick up the latest 22-page Batman (or whatever) comic and had to write in such a way that the reader would “see” the comic book in his mind.
Any guesses?
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That title should read "How long would a comic book be if written entirely in prose?
Seems like ay length at all, depending on how intricately everything is described. If Joyce could write over 1000 pages on a single average day, well…
I’ve seen a few Neil Gaimen short stories turned into comics - the only one that I can bring to mind is Murder Mysteries which is from Smoke and Mirrors .
Then there is Stardust which is a graphic novel (by Neil Gaimen) turned into prose novel.
I’m not sure how straigh sequencial comics would translate into prose - I know I found Stardust a little ‘flatter’ that the graphic novel
Marvel just did a three part series with Wolverine & Elektra called The Redeemer. Each part was fully written (novelized?) with a full page drawing every couple pages. The story would read the exact same without the art, it didn’t illustrate the story as much as it helped set the tone.
Of course I don’t have it here, but I think each book was around 30 pages.
I think it depends on the writer. If Alan Moore, it could go on for pages and pages. If it’s Rob Liefield, about half a page.