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If [[Speechbubbles Interruption]] are used to show it's not being listened to, see [[Wall of Blather]]. If the text is ''literally'' written on a wall in-universe, it might be a [[Room Full of Crazy]]. See [[Read the Fine Print]] if these kinds of text actually contain very important information. [[Ominous Multiple Screens]] is sort-of the video equivalent.
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== Advertising ==
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** In the same tradition (though more tongue-in-cheek, obviously) Chris Sims of the Invincible super-blog does a feature he calls [http://www.the-isb.com/?cat=201 Warrior Wisdom Fridays] that feature one of Ultimate Warrior's characteristically incoherent Wall Of Text rants, plus a hilarious [[Alt Text]] haiku summary.
* Dave Sim's ''[[Cerebus]]'' went beyond the [[Walls of Text]] and into chronic [[Author Filibuster]] when the comic itself was repeatedly put on hold to make space for multi-page misogynistic rants of plain text. It does get over that phase eventually<ref> the walls of text, not the misogyny</ref>, then later falls back into it.
* A dreadful example: ''[[Tintin (Comic Book)]] in America''. Hergé shocked Europe with this thing. Now almost everyone knows text walls are ''pure evil.''
* [[Don Rosa]]'s earlier works (particularly ''The Pertwillaby Papers'') had tight-packed expository speech bubbles. Not so much in his Disney comics, though; the "Disney remakes" of his stories are a good example of how one can thin the information flow without really affecting the ''net amount'' of information conveyed to the reader.
* The online archive of the surreal Brown University newspaper comic ''Burble'' is fully aware of its large bits of dialogue; despite its high quality compared to most other strips at the time, it was mocked (and later self-mocked) for "too many words".
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== Print Media ==
* An audiophile magazine featured an article lamenting the overuse of compression -- making the louds quieter and the quiets louder to even out the dynamic range of a recording. (There's even a term for it, it's "[[Loudness War]]".) Compression is useful for "punching up" the sound of a given track, since it evens out the dynamics and lets an engineer raise the volume without causing clipping. However, some modern recordings go a bit overboard with this.<br />THE ARTICLE THEN PROCEEDED TO DEMONSTRATE THE PROBLEM OF EXCESSIVE COMPRESSION [[Self
* Textbooks. Some college texts books that are literally solid walls of text that go for pages with no pictures, diagrams, or even ''paragraph breaks''. And the text is usually really tiny.
* Manual pages for Linux/Unix commands are notorious for this.
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** ''[[Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal]]'' notes that [http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1538#comic "When people think 'funny', they think 'tons of words!'"]
* This is a criticism often levelled at ''[[Ctrl Alt Del (Webcomic)|Ctrl Alt Del]]''. In fact, a certain [[Image Board]] came up with something called "CAD Rule" -- the law that if you take the first panel and the last panel of a ''Ctrl+Alt+Del'' strip, remove the text from the last panel, and post it, it will automatically be much funnier, as [http://www.cad-comic.com/cad/20060331 this strip] "shows".
** A similar device is the infamously named ''buckleybox'', a smaller but equally superfluous [[Wall of Text]] used to reiterate something that ''[[Don't Explain the Joke|should already appear in the actual comic]]'' visually, but may not due to odd dialogue placement, poor art not conveying it, or the assumption [[Viewers
* ''[[
* ''[[Goodwill Heroes]]'' had an instance where [http://www.goodwill-heroes.net/06-06-2011/bk01-ch02-pg03/ the Librarian] belittled the main cast for raising their voices in a library.
* ''[[Xkcd (Webcomic)|Xkcd]]'' once had a wall of text that [http://xkcd.com/160/ broke the frame of the comic].
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* ''[[Silent Hill Promise]]'' The comic, like the [[Adventure Game|adventure games]] it apes, supplements the images with plenty of narration.
* ''[[Something Positive (Webcomic)|Something Positive]]'' has a bad case of this; ironically this is more noticable since the comic is drawn to allow ample space from them, and is a good indication to the presence of strawmen. One particularly [[Egregious]] [http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp07232004.shtml example] is lampshaded with the following:
{{quote| '''Warning:''' The following comic contains a lot of words. Those who are frightened or intimidated by reading are encouraged to seek entertainment elsewhere. [[Viewers
* ''[[Irregular Webcomic (Webcomic)|Irregular Webcomic]]'' made fun of this trope [http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/1159.html here]. Notable that it use the strings of text as a way to make fun of the trope instead of having some sort of [[Lampshade Hanging]] outside the strings of text.
* ''[http://www.viruscomix.com/subnormality.html Subnormality]'' '''is''' walls of text (except when it's [[Text Plosion]]... Or totally wordless). It's right there in the sub-title: "Comix with too many words since 2007."
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* Though most walls of exposition are stowed away in boxes below the comic rather than panel bubbles, ''[[Homestuck (Webcomic)|Homestuck]]'' has more than its share of walls of text. The ''[[Lower Deck Episode|Hivebent]]'' arc, in particular, [[Word of God|has been described by Andrew Hussie as]] "[http://www.formspring.me/andrewhussie/q/1158778979 a very vividly illustrated e-novel]", rather than a webcomic.
** In Act 6 Act 3, Homestuck [[Reconstructed Trope|actively defends its method of long-winded narration]] by having a new character who hates long stories tell her arc in bullet points and skip straight to the end, depriving the reader of almost all the interesting details. A second character, pissed off at this display of storytelling, decides to [[Call Back|recap the Ancestor Arc]] in the same bullet style, showing that while the initial version of that arc was fairly long-winded, the bullet-point style turns every character into a one-dimensional plot device and turns the narrative into a terribly-paced [[Random Events Plot]].
* Once used in ''[[At
* [[Bleedman]], aka Vinson Ngo, is usually guilty of this in his webcomics when it comes to exposition. ''[[Grim Tales From Down Below|Grims Tales]]'' and ''[[Sugar Bits]]'' in particular.
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