“Abusing the Narrator”
So, now that they’ve gone full using and abusing the narrator, we have to ask ourselves, how strong are those text boxes? Grayhawk is slamming a goon’s head against one and it doesn’t budge. Ditto with supporting the weight of three heroes jumping across that chasm. However, Kickman is strong enough with his super powers to juggle them around like Inferno’s truck. They can deflect a crossbow bolt and stop a thrown brick, the ranged weapons of choice for the Mole Men zealots. Can they stop Superior Man’s laser eyes or a punch from the Kick-Verse equivalent of the Hulk’s smash?
Time will tell.
If team Kick continues with these shenanigans, with a bit of creativity, they’ll have themselves a weapon nearly as powerful as Green Ring’s Power Lantern.
You heard it here first! SUPERIOR MAN’S COMING BACK BABY!!!
…Or at least his eyes.
ooooooh
Will there be a union official dialog box in the future?
Matt, you’ve violated causal limits on how meta you can be.
You, the author, really asked how strong your text is…
Okay. The Narrator is definitely useful, but he needs a weakness if he’s going to be this awesome. How about, if his textboxes get abused too much then his voice gets tired? I can’t see the Kickteam caring about peer pressure from Narrator rules unless the Narrator is less useful to them because of it. Kickman is the guy signing Wordman’s paycheck, not some Narrator standards body.
Let us say the Narrator is another kind of hero, but his gift is Narration Boxes. Ordinary Narration is something he can do for months on end and he’ll be fine. But he has an exhaustion factor that kicks in. If the textboxes are moved, or if he goes meta – if he participates outside the impartial – then there’s a *cost* to that, which is why he hates doing that. He can. But if he goes into the story beyond the impartial then he becomes subject to it in some way.
Another option is that the narrator-style omniscience runs on impartiality. The more he gets drawn in to the story the more he can’t see past it. The more he participates the more he won’t know about that viper tooth.
This is a good option for encouraging The Team to only have him participate when it really counts. This meta-narration boxfu is fun right now. How can you keep it fun after another hundred comics? Two hundred? Heroes aren’t just defined by what they can do. What they can’t do is just as important.
“Okay. The Narrator is definitely useful, but he needs a weakness ”
Villains, unlike minions, realise they can use the dialog box too.
So the narrator is supposed to follow Central Park rules?