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The Writing has really Improved!

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ScottMon:

--- Quote from: zerodrone on 27 Mar 2008, 15:27 ---Understandable, but Jeph gets so many thumbs up his ass in this forum that I periodically feel the need to be (apparently) the only person who ever says anything that is remotely less than "QC is the best webcomic ever!"


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Considering he's doing it and I'm not paying for, I have no reason to complain.  :D

Butch:
Really, the arguments are much more efficient and open than real debates.  Not only does it help to end arguments and keep them from taking up an entire week of strips, but I'd love to have arguments with this kind of expediency in reality.  Sure, nothing really gets solved, but when has a real-life argument ever solved anything?

Surgoshan:

--- Quote from: Red the Ghost on 27 Mar 2008, 15:47 ---I disagree with the "steady decline" that you're talking about, but I do agree Jeph's doing a shitty job with the arguments. He just basically went with the most stereotypical argument-scene imaginable.

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You're right.  Whenever I get into an argument with a girlfriend, I try to make sure it's unique.  I keep a scrapbook so I can make sure that I never have the same argument twice.  I try to vary location, cause, pointless insults, the number and type of people watching, and the surveillance equipment.  The girlfriend is, of course, incidental to the argument.

thatryanguy:
I just find it odd that on a forum decidated to a specific comic, where people who are fans of the comic congregate and discuss things, anyone would find it neccesary to go out of their way to be negative about it, specifically because noone else does =^

From a writing perspective, if you've been working on a comic for 8 years, and the characters have grown and developed over that time like the ones in QC have, a good writer isn't always in control of what's going to happen. Your characters take on a life of their own, and can react to things in surprising ways. It being a "stereotypical" arguement means it's one that people will have much more often than any less typical arguement. Why should characters who Would react that way, Not react that way, just because it's not unusual?

If you ask me, Bad writers are the ones who develop a character, and then have them act or react in ways they wouldn't, just because they wanted a story to progress in a different manner.

Jackie Blue:
I find it odd that anybody would ever think that a forum for discussion of a comic should be limited to praise.

And I think that part of why the writing of the argument was bad was precisely because it was so out of character.  Dora has never acted like that or really given much indication she would, and Marten's "Fuck this.  I'm leaving" was similarly out of character.

That's all beside the point that I just think the writing was bad from a stylistic standpoint.  Not because the characters "acted wrong" or "reacted wrong", just because the actual writing was bad.

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