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When used well, decompression is a useful tool that can not only give artists a chance to stretch their wings but also alter the pace of the issue in order to tell the story more successfully. Of course, like any tool it can be used poorly. Some writers (including, arguably, Ellis himself in later years) used it to pad out thin plots or to blindly mimic then-fashionable trends. Such writers were often accused of [[Writing for The Trade]].
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* ''[[Akira (Manga)|Akira]]''. That's 6 manga volumes and over 2000 pages. All of them are painstakingly detailed with so many [[Scenery Porn]], [[Scenery Gorn]] and action sequences you know [[Katsuhiro Otomo]] was [[Doing It for The Art]].
* ''[[Gunnm]]'' Last Order has the ZOTT arc with whole chapters describing just a few, or even a single punch. Running for at least 80 chapters (7 years in real life so far) the event takes place over a period of ''six days''.
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* Paul Pope is fond of this technique and while his comics so far have have made use of it to a certain extent his current project Battling Boy has according to [[Word of God]] 40 page fight scenes. Apparently the graphic novel is taking so long because it is going to be a truly epic [[Doorstopper]].
* Ironically enough [[Geoff Johns]], who supposedly left Marvel so he wouldn't be forced to write like this, has started to adept this writing style into more and more of his works. The most notable examples as of late has been ''Legion of 3 Worlds'' and '"Flash Rebirth.''
* Ever since [[Transformers: All Hail Megatron]], most of IDW's "main" [[Transformers]] comics have suffered from the negative aspect of this trope, with issues feeling more like half or even a third of an issue than a full issue. Needless to say, "Speed up the pace!" has become an increasingly common post to be seen on the IDW Transformers forum. This has also been parodied extensively, most notably by [[Walkyverse|David Willis]] [http://www.shortpacked.com/blog/comic/book-11/03-vote-chopperface/costa-2/ here].
* '''365 Samurai and a Few Bowls of Rice''' consist of a panels taking up each page entirely and story telling focused on mood and atmosphere.
* While not too bad, [http://www.tnemrot.com/ Tnemrot] is quite decompressed.
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* [[Deadpool]] plays this for laughs once, having Deadpool take a leak for one and a half pages. Overlaps with [[Overly Long Gag|overly long gag]] here.
* ''[[Superman]]: The Coming of Atlas'' suffers badly from this. Despite being a four-issue story arc, it basically consists of ''one'' long fight scene.
* The Manga version of [[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]] does this a few times to emphasise the [[Buffy
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