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WCDT: 2578-2582 (18-22 November 2013) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
rschill:
--- Quote from: LookingIn on 21 Nov 2013, 04:50 ---I regret mentioning it as a possible cliffhanger. I screwed up on the dates, I didn't notice that it was only a couple of strips left before Thanksgiving.
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You've given me some stuff to try to sort out in my head.
GarandMarine:
I think there won't be a cliffhanger this year. Just to mess with us.
DSL:
The cliffhanger will be us waiting for a cliffhanger.
DSL:
Re: rschill's comment on "there ought to be a limit ... "
Comments like that -- and I don't want to single you out, because I hear such calls from too many people -- leave me cold, mostly because I wonder who the commenters want setting and enforcing the limits.
In the case at hand, Jeph Jacques and QC have established a precedent of handling such issues with thought and sensitivity, to the point where the artist has been driven to the point of near self-destruction by a "fan" who thought he/she/it was being ... witty?
But even where that's not the case: Let someone say what they will. If it's wrong, or you think they're wrong, call them on it. The marketplace of ideas (which, more often these days than before, translates pretty directly into the real marketplace) will decide who and what will rise. That might be the only realistic way of setting and enforcing the "limit" some people seek to put on others.
In other words, if Jeph and QC can find acceptance handling issues such as gender preference and trans* and a myriad others the way he has -- learning along the way from opinions expressed to him, his own thought processes, and his own mistakes and those of others and any other learning method I've left out -- he deserves every penny of success he gets from doing so, whatever I, you or anyone else says.
jwhouk:
--- Quote from: DSL on 21 Nov 2013, 06:38 ---The cliffhanger will be us waiting for a cliffhanger.
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Or, the ever famous, "Man, nothing ever happens around here."-type strip.
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