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I miss Raven.
wings-on-water:
I was actually just thinking about the lack of Raven today... though it's comforting to see the fairly recent (Sept 9th I think?) strip with her in it. She's a fun character to have around. And yes, the band, and Dora could be more interesting, and Wil and Penelope and what happened to Steve and redneck Joe, and all these things are stuff that I'd like to see addressed - but each strip can only focus on one thing, unfortunately. :(
I've been feeling the confines of the current plotline(s) like some other posters have mentioned, but I think that's because I came to the comic pretty late, about 2 months ago. So I read the entire archives in 2 or 3 sittings, when the plot moved at a pretty satisfactory pace. Now, however, I still haven't adjusted to only getting one QC a day, and everything seems to move glacially slowly. I guess Zingoleb does have a point about it being better to move this slowly, though, or it would be crazy for first-time readers.
laizeohbeets:
I miss Angus. :(
ptitqui:
I would rather see more of Sven/Faye than Pen/Wil. I don't know as I like Wil enough to have a whole storyline about him.
Lildaani:
Alright, I don't normally post in General Discussion (or very much at all, really) but this thread caught my eye, and I felt the need to point a few things out.
(Emphasis in quotes added by me)
--- Quote from: Jackie Blue on 31 Aug 2008, 00:38 ---Raven is way more interesting and fun than Penelope. All we know about Penelope is that she reads books. She doesn't really have any discernible personality to speak of.
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--- Quote from: ptitqui on 30 Sep 2008, 15:24 ---I would rather see more of Sven/Faye than Pen/Wil. I don't know as I like Wil enough to have a whole storyline about him.
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Until this point, Penelope didn't get very much air-time in the comic. Wil, like-wise, is a new character. Let's put it in perspective: Raven's first appearance was in, what, comic 46? Then had 2 or 3 appearances before appearing as a regular character in 279.
It took many comics for us to learn about her particular quirks.
I, sadly, was not around at the start of QC, so I don't know what the initial reaction to her was.
My point here is to give Wil and Penelope a chance. This date is probably going to be used by Jeph to develop their characters more fully.
In two years, they may become the most popular characters in the series; you just don't know.
--- Quote from: PantsFTW on 02 Sep 2008, 20:14 ---In all honesty, I like Raven as a character, but I also think we need a character like Penolope. Without her, every single character would have some quirk. There'd be no baseline for the quirkiness of others.
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I see Pen's occasional rants as a quirk. I agree with the other posters: Marten is the baseline for normality. (His parents have quirks, but those quirks do not reflect onto him.)
I think everyone has a different idea of who the "main characters" are. Personally, I see it as Faye and Marten. Then there are the secondary characters: Dora, Sven, Raven, Hanners, Pintsize, and Steve. Then the tertiary characters: Amir, Nat, Jimbo, Meena, David, Roomba, Tai, Angus, Veronica, Amanda, Faye's mom, Winslow, and Mieville. (Penpen and Wil are hovering on the verge of becoming secondary.)
One last thing:
--- Quote from: Zingoleb on 02 Sep 2008, 19:59 ---What a lot of people fail to take into account is...how slow is it going to be progressing when you read all of the comics as a first-time reader? Do you really want Jeph to rush a particular scenario because it seems to take too long, only to realize that afterward you can read the entire arc in a few minutes and it seems a bit too short? Or would you rather him take his time with the story and let it unfold a bit more slowly, and make it a little more cohesive in the archives than "Okay thisstorythatstorythatstorythisstoryagain"?
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I completely agree with this. Thank you for stating it so clearly.
Roivas:
I think everyone would happier if Jeph did two comics a day and one every weekend. BUt then his wife would kill us all before the comic could kill him.
I really never take much time missing any particular character but I think I'm alittle too passive about where the comic goes. To me I don't think of web comics as a good way to tell a story, until they're finished which never happens, but instead a really good way to be humorous and entertain strangers.
Raven will be back, and using my awesome bald powers to predict the future, there will be another appearance of "the twins". Haven't seen them since #519http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=519
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