Is the amount of Thrill Power in comics declining?

It's everyone's fault -- for example, most of Warren Ellis' books are often late because of WE's storied script lateness. Same w/ GM's work on the WildStorm books.

This just means that creative talent is more hassle than it's worth, and every spandex book should be helmed by the Countdown crew.

Yep. Tardiness is often a group effort. If the script starts late, then woah nelly, things get out of hand very quickly.

Is he talking about Thrill Power?

I think he's talking about something that gets lumped in with thrill power, but not Thrill Power in and of itself.

For instance, FINAL CRISIS might have been thrill-powered, but its storytelling style kinda robbed the works of its Thrill Power. Does that make sense? I realize I'm probably just one in a small handful of people who didn't embrace the FINAL CRISIS experience fully (particularly given the Morrison love often showed at ILC, even often by myself.)

Personally, I love the mad ideas, but there has to be something to hang them on. Maybe it's just me.

There are enough comics that really belabor their plot points and overexplain their points and themes that I'm glad to have SOME Mad Ideas/Thrill Power/Gimmick-driven-plot comics now and then. Especially with a baby in the house, I got no time for prose-heavy mags. Last week's Legion of 3 Worlds, for eg, is busting my hump with all its words and shit.

that I'm glad to have SOME Mad Ideas/Thrill Power/Gimmick-driven-plot comics now and then that err in the other direction, I meant to add

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The little dude is supposed to be jimmy corrigan.

I LOLd IRL.

For instance, FINAL CRISIS might have been thrill-powered, but its storytelling style kinda robbed the works of its Thrill Power.

Final Crisis is the very antithesis of thrill power. You are right on the storytelling style, but worse is its tiresome continuity rockism. And general lack of thrill power.

Legion of 3 Worlds was pretty thrill-powered, I thought! Yeah, there's too much cumbersome talky talky, but there's a lot of forward momentum in it. Maybe there's an, um, American-style thrill power that's different from the UK version? The Chaykin-Miller brutalist school, perhaps, rather than the goofball-psychedelic-kitchen-sink British style of Mills, Morrison etc.

I must admit, I didn't get a lot of pleasure out of reading Final Crisis (at least in the middle issues 4-6) -- by design its meant to feel doomy and oppressive. So I don't think thrill power's the appropriate measure here...

continuity rockism ftw!

I have to admit, I'd been away long enough to forget all about continuity rockism.

And it's weird that Morrison went that route in making an ur-text for the DCU, since previously, he'd done a great job just dealing with the essential components of the characters (I'm thinking his JLA and X-MEN runs here, but prolly DOOM PATROL as well, maybe) and running with that.

the powar has gone to his head

absolute thrill power corrupts absolutely