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WCDT: 2831-2835 (10 - 14 November 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Lubricus:
--- Quote from: Akima on 13 Nov 2014, 00:45 ---Is it a selfie if there are three people in the shot?
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A selfie is any picture you take of yourself, basicly, so yes.
Thrillho:
I know Veronica will probably wear heels anyway, but she is tall as shit.
BenRG:
--- Quote from: Gareth on 13 Nov 2014, 01:09 ---I know Veronica will probably wear heels anyway, but she is tall as shit.
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She is tall but I got the impression from panel 4 that she'd sort of jumped up on Marten and Claire's shoulders; that's why they were visibly staggering.
Thrillho:
She's taller than them both in every appearance anyway.
ReindeerFlotilla:
--- Quote from: Blackbird on 12 Nov 2014, 23:37 ---I know Claire is the favourite character of many of the forumites, so I'm trying to tread lightly, but anyone else already bored with this "OMG relationship" gag?
I guess its the fact that its bringing with it a grind-to-a-halt pacing that's bugging me. There have been 26 comics since their first kiss (such a squeeworthy event that I and others were driven to this board for the first time just to squee in good company). Half of these were other stories (10 were about Faye/Marigold reacting to Angus skipping town, two were Winston and Pintsize hijinks, and one was a Yelling Bird filler). The other half were all about Marten & Claire. ... except only 4 of them were actually about moving the relationship or the story ahead in anyway. The rest were all characters reacting to it, usually with unusually high levels of happiness or a one-panel filler strip because Jeph had a convention to get to. That's literally more than 2/3 of one storyline, which itself is taking up half the comic, doing nothing but repeating variations on the same joke. It's getting boring.
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Maybe Jeph is running into the problem of using very few words. Pictures aren't always worth a thousand words. Sometimes five words is worth ten pictures. It's a learning curve and he's trying to juggle in a new comic at the same time.
If the strength of the WCDT is any indicator, you aren't alone.
I've been doing NaNoWriMo. I'm writing my "novel" as scripts for a comic. It's not a gag-a-day comic, but the majority end on some kind of punch line or beat. If I tried to minimize words (which doesn't really work when word count is the goal) I would probably take three strips to accomplish what I do in one. I'm not saying this is a universal. After all, I think I've done pretty good for a first draft, and I've already churned out 365 scripts. So my ability to punch out the story is different. Jeph keeps a pretty strong story in his head and puts out a script a day.
I can't draw.
My point is, doing low word count storytelling is tricky. I could probably (if I took more time to plan) cut half the dialogue I have. That would speed up the pacing. Jeph's working what seems like a similar pacing but with about a quarter of the words. Allowing for words that solely set up daily gags, I suspect the overall result is that we are getting information at about 50 to 75% of the rate we used to. I suspect things aren't going slow as much as we are feeling starved for details and color.
Or maybe I'm just a guy who wrote 11 months' worth of comic in 12 days. That might skew anyone's perspective on pacing.
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