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One thing that I've noticed in some comics written by Brian Bendis as of late, is the use of the parenthesis in mid-sentence. For instance, he might do something like this:
The stuff in parenthesis, I imagine, is supposed to be dialogue that is spoken underneath Jessica's breath. (I could be totally wrong, and it could be a way to display text which is being thought and not said aloud... but I don't think that's it.)

Anyway -- does this bug people? Is it annoying to have text written that way? I have a couple places where that very thing is going on in the game I am working on, but if it's a mimesis breaker or whatever, definitely let me know. I am wondering about this like the guy who invented the thought bubble is wondering about his use of that.

Yes, that is horrible. Unless in the picture, the character saying it is making "hand parentheses". In which case, it's probably the comic itself that is horrible.

Of course, I wouldn't know, since comics are for children.

OK, fair enough. Luckily, with written text in a format not, as you put it, "for children," we can put words around the dialogue and make it clearer that way. Another problem solved!

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Can someone explain the previous two posts to me?