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Passage of time in QC...
marsman57:
I definitely like the work that has gone into this. I often wonder how much thought Jeph puts into timelines. He has to know that the average reader has completely forgotten that Marten and Claire have only known each other for a couple of months if that is his artistic intention. It's almost like someone needs to remind him. The only problem is that everyone is too happy for him to do that. :)
AprilArcus:
I revised the May and June parts of the timeline to place Tai's party at the end of finals week (May, week 1). This gives some breathing room that makes Angus's dialogue in 2038 more naturalistic (since it would be weird for him to invite Faye to New York and then leave the very next day), makes Faye's "it's been like a week!" in 2098 more appropriate (referring to a six day span vs. a four day span), and gives Marten more time between the end of his relationship with Padma and his flirtation with Lt. Potter on the station. Everything from the second half of June onward is unaffected.
--- Quote from: marsman57 on 13 Oct 2014, 11:45 ---He has to know that the average reader has completely forgotten that Marten and Claire have only known each other for a couple of months if that is his artistic intention.
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It might be longer. I've deliberately compressed the July/August half of this timeline as much as possible, on the hopeful presumption that the Fall semester hasn't started off-panel. We haven't had a student-age main character before (Raven's graduate studies have been glossed over, Ellen and Cosette are minor characters, Tai is immersed in the Smif social scene but appears to have graduated before we met her), but now that we have Claire - a driven grad student - in the main cast, I hope we'll see some aspect of her studies as a foregrounded plot thread.
Platypodes:
--- Quote from: marsman57 on 13 Oct 2014, 11:45 ---I definitely like the work that has gone into this. I often wonder how much thought Jeph puts into timelines. He has to know that the average reader has completely forgotten that Marten and Claire have only known each other for a couple of months if that is his artistic intention. It's almost like someone needs to remind him. The only problem is that everyone is too happy for him to do that. :)
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I'm not surprised by the time frame. All they've done is kiss and say they like each other, a very reasonable thing to do after two months.
Actually, I wonder if some of the readers who've protested that the Marten/Claire attraction "came out of nowhere" need to be reminded that it's only been a couple of months. If they'd known each other for a year and then all of a sudden discovered that they were attracted to each other, that would be out of left field.
FunkyTuba:
I've wanted to do something like this for so long... it's wonderful to see all the work you've done, April!
marsman57:
I've started attacking this from the other end and have fleshed out some of the existing stuff in the first ~230 strips which appear to all have taken place in a time frame that runs from November-December of the first year.
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