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other reader opinions?
schmeeble:
--- Quote ---[flame:burner=low]So, maybe it's time to start a new "semantics" thread so people can give their opinions about the comic in here? [/flame]
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Moxie:
--- Quote from: epoch on 14 Sep 2009, 06:51 ---My biggest problem with it right now, is that it seems like there's only one or two comics per week that push the story forward and the rest are just one-offs. I wish there was more stuff to push the story ahead.
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My opinion. We get 5 comics a week. If all 5 comics a week pushed the story forward, we'd through through stories at an amazing rate, and Jeph would most likely get burnt out from having to continually push current stories, as well as future stories. It makes sense for him to push the story a little at a time, and let the rest be fun. The man has got to rest his brain occasionally! :wink:
raoullefere:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 14 Sep 2009, 01:02 --- the type of smooth extroverts who integrate themselves into new situations painlessly and quickly.
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The two of those we have in the strip seem, to me, to be more than sufficient. Well, okay, Tai isn't smooth, but she makes up for that with extra extrovertiveness (extroversion? extrovertiness?). As far as I can tell, Tai lives so much on her skin there's nothing inside. I will add that while Wil and Angus may be square pegs, Marigold seems to be an irregular polygon. And I don't have the geometry to try to describe Hannelore.
As for the old characters disappearing, I understand the 'whys' of that. Sometimes one feels like one has gone as far as one can, especially with a minor character dreamed up to fill a specific purpose. Sure, you can send him/her in a new direction, but that too often involved retconning and/or trying to think about that character in new way. It's much easier simply to introduce someone new to fulfill that function.
Of course, sometimes said minor character is easy to evolve and before you know it, she's become a major character, brimming with possibility. Funny how what is essentially having a conversation with yourself works.
edit: damned semicolons, fixed
Carl-E:
Hanners is non-Euclidean.
I like what you said about the minor characters, too. Witness Raven, originally a one-liner ("Dora, you're not goth anymore, whine, whine") who evolved a lot, verged on a main character, then...
what? Disappeared?
Reminds me of the Darwin Society's motto - "Evolve or Die"
It won out over the less insistant, "Adapt or trip over your extra feet", but the artwork for that one was funnier...
thret:
I think what hooked me on QC was the inexplicable father-suicide arc. Jeph did something special there.
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