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Why is QC so damn fascinating?
Carl-E:
But is that positive reinforcement, or just the daze of confusion?
Shremedy:
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 23 Feb 2011, 11:33 ---Both Celticgeek and I have been around for several years, but I think the number of 35-50 year olds has increased. But regular posters in that age range are probably still in single figures I would guess (and the same again at the other end of the forums). I think we share the property of not showing our age...
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It's probably "regular posters" versus "regular readers". I signed on here in 07, haven't spent a lot of time logged in. But I've been a regular reader from back when Jeph's art was still pretty rough, somewhere in the 200-300 range. Hard to tell exactly where I started, having re-read the whole series from the beginning a couple times now :-D
SJCrew:
Most of the time, we're just waiting for something interesting to happen in between lulls of randomness. The comic's drive was much stronger a while back, if you ask me.
horsefish:
For those of us that came relatively late in the game and started with an archive binge, I think it's harder to tell what the pace of the comic has been over time. Where there have been "lulls," it only took me five or ten minutes to get through them, not weeks. Also, the dates of the archived strips aren't clear, so the waits between fridays and mondays are usually invisible, unless Jeph mentioned it in the newspost. Likewise with guest strips, Yelling Bird and other continuity breaks - they don't seem to interrupt the flow when you're not waiting for the next strip.
Carl-E:
Very true! That's one of the reasons that so many webcomic artists seem to make book anthologies, as well.
Aside from the ability to sell something concrete, that is.
I'm fairly new to webcomics (except for xkcd, which I've followed for years), and there's definitely a difference in feeling between an archive binge and following a current comic. The same was true of daily comics like Bloom County and Calvin & Hobbes, and their book antologies (incomplete as they were). Cliffhangers don't really work in an archive or a book (unless you decide to stop at that point, and really, who could?), but they can really capture you when you're following it. Arc resolutions are right there for the taking, not up in the air (or worse, left open to interpretation :wink: ).
But that's not really part of QC's draw, or if it is, it's a minor part. These issues are the same for any serialized art form. Some are just done better than others! I archive binged on a different comic recently, and found myself intrigued, but also saw several plot problems and character issues. Now I'm debating whether I really want to follow it more, just because I started to care a little for one of the characters despite the poor writing.
I think I just made my decision, too. Life's too short! [removes shortcut]
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