Aspects of a Good Comic Book

There are so many aspects that make a single story in a comic good that it would be hard to just work through it, but there are aspects to a good story that are not only found in novels. For the purposes of this discussion an attempt will be made to deconstruct what a quality comic book story can be. Most comic book stories of any worth involve heroes, villains, engaging storytelling, and an illustrators way of rendering images.

The hero is core to any comic book story. It has been this way since the first foundations of the comic book. A comic is not a funny enterprise that you would find in a newspaper; it is a different form of storytelling entirely. The hero is what differentiates the comic book. Spider-Man, Superman, Batman, the X-Men, there are so many different forms of heroes that the possibilities are endless. Even a grade A hero does not mean the comic book will be an engaging thing; there are many other absolutes that must be involved. The hero will have to react to a situation, whether it be drug deal or a murderer, and how they act upon it, how they question it, is the job of the writer. A good comic book story will employ a hero like Spider Man in a way that is different from the original mold. Originality is not key, but a new way of working out the problem is. The problems of drugs or a villain about to destroy a city is common, but how the hero reacts to them is what makes the comic book a classic.