In his book about the history of Marvel Comics, Sean Howe notes that the practice of writing comic-book dialogue in capital letters, with exclamation points at the end of every sentence, dates back to the days when the inking process was so crude and unreliable that there was no other way to guarantee that the words would be legible. But while that style is now an anachronism, some writers, like Warren Ellis (The Authority, Transmetropolitan, Global Frequency) still take it to heart.
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