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WCDT: 2761-2765 (4-8 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
cesium133:
TheEvilDog:
With regards to the recent discussion of the art style, I really don't have anything to say, so I'm just going to go with something even better.
I like bacon.
Method of Madness:
Me too, TED. Me too.
Carl-E:
Vax456:
Hi JJ.
I've been reading QC since around comic 700-800 or so and this is my first time posting here. I'm posting for the first time because I wanted to voice my opinion on the last couple strips.
First of all, like other posters, I got some serious whip-lash from the sudden change in the strip. I remember the other times QC's artwork took a dramatic change, but the difference is all the other times QC's artwork changed, I would say something like "Oh neat, he's changing up his artstyle again". This time around, I said to myself, "Whoah! Okay, wow! That was... whoah, I wasn't expecting that..." At first, I thought it was the artwork, but after reading the most recent strips several more times, there's some other dramatic changes going on here I wasn't consciously aware of.
The biggest change that happened in the last couple strips is the Tarantino-like smalltalk is gone, and the tone has been changed to... I don't know how to describe it... a rated G sitcom?
These last couple strips weren't anything JJ hasn't tackled before, it's just the way it's being tackled that's giving me whip-lash. I'm all for the new art style. It just needs a couple tweaks. And really, how many art changes has JJ made that were perfect the first time? I don't think any art changes were made that didn't require a bunch of tweaking before he got it "just right".
This time around, the comic is sorely lacking the dialogue and pacing. The dialogue between Hanners and Marigold went from "I miss hanging out with you" in one pane, to "Am I a bad friend?" in the next. I think that comic needed two more panes with just a couple more sentences to really flesh out that arc. I think I understand where that reaction came from, and it was with Marigolds last fight with Momo. Looking at Marigolds history so far, I think that reaction is in-character and a legitimate one (in the QC universe at least). It just needed a couple more exchanges between Hanners and Marigold to build up to that reaction. And then the punchline at the end needed a bigger punch-in-the-face. Maybe after Marigold and Hanners reach an understanding and hug, then a moment of silence for a bit... and then "I really hope you don't mind talking about some sexy stuff, 'cause I got lots of sexy stuff to talk about." --- with Dale standing right there looking mortified and May... being May.
I'm all for a change in QC's art style, even if I don't like it. There were phases of QC's art style that I didn't like, but I kept eagerly reading through them anyway because the characters and dialogue more than made up for it. But this time around, I sense a great disturbance in the force. I find your lack of butt-disease disturbing.
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