Why do comics use so many exclamation points?!!!!

I remember Walt Simonson giving a reason:

One note about the routine use of exclamation marks in comics back in the day - I was told back when I asked about it myself that exclamation marks were used because the printing and the use of newsprint occasionally meant that a regular period didn't always print clearly, thus creating sentences that didn't end properly. The exclamation mark was more reliable. I don't know how true this is or how often periods didn't print with clarity, but I did have a sentence in one of my earlier issues of Thor print without an " 's " at the end of it, thereby completely reversing the meaning of the word balloon. This was corrected in the Omnibus, but I was pretty annoyed at the time.

BB

To emphasize things...like when you're telling somebody you're kill to them...to DEATH!!!

lol

I remember Walt Simonson giving a reason:

One note about the routine use of exclamation marks in comics back in the day - I was told back when I asked about it myself that exclamation marks were used because the printing and the use of newsprint occasionally meant that a regular period didn't always print clearly, thus creating sentences that didn't end properly. The exclamation mark was more reliable. I don't know how true this is or how often periods didn't print with clarity, but I did have a sentence in one of my earlier issues of Thor print without an " 's " at the end of it, thereby completely reversing the meaning of the word balloon. This was corrected in the Omnibus, but I was pretty annoyed at the time.

BB

@manwhohaseverything:

Tradition.

in the early years of comic books periods would sometimes be skipped over by the printers, so an exclamation point would be more likely to survive the process, so Exclamation points replaced Periods as a more visible alternative.

Printing has become better, so they stick around mostly as a traditional stigma, but sometimes because the off brands aren't using super quality printing methods.

I remember Walt Simonson giving a reason:

One note about the routine use of exclamation marks in comics back in the day - I was told back when I asked about it myself that exclamation marks were used because the printing and the use of newsprint occasionally meant that a regular period didn't always print clearly, thus creating sentences that didn't end properly. The exclamation mark was more reliable. I don't know how true this is or how often periods didn't print with clarity, but I did have a sentence in one of my earlier issues of Thor print without an " 's " at the end of it, thereby completely reversing the meaning of the word balloon. This was corrected in the Omnibus, but I was pretty annoyed at the time.

BB

I remember Walt Simonson giving a reason:

One note about the routine use of exclamation marks in comics back in the day - I was told back when I asked about it myself that exclamation marks were used because the printing and the use of newsprint occasionally meant that a regular period didn't always print clearly, thus creating sentences that didn't end properly. The exclamation mark was more reliable. I don't know how true this is or how often periods didn't print with clarity, but I did have a sentence in one of my earlier issues of Thor print without an " 's " at the end of it, thereby completely reversing the meaning of the word balloon. This was corrected in the Omnibus, but I was pretty annoyed at the time.

BB

For Effect!!!!!!!!!