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WCDT: 2831-2835 (10 - 14 November 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
ASB84:
AprilArcus nailed it once again.
BenRG:
--- Quote from: techkid on 13 Nov 2014, 05:56 ---Remember that she was a professional dominatrix. From all the stories of Marten's upbringing though, she was an amateur, but well-meaning, mother.
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+1 Ditto
Her heart is wholly behind her efforts but, like so many parents, she more-or-less has had to make it up as she went along.
MooskiNet:
--- Quote from: AprilArcus on 13 Nov 2014, 01:30 ---awesome analysis
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My gut reaction to the idea of a time skip was oh hells no - there's too much going on right now to simply leap forward. However, on reading your analysis, I find I have to agree. There are really only two options - talk about the thing or skip to a place where the thing is understood to have been talked about already. That may be some of the motivation with the less is more storytelling style of late.
Great, great work.
snubnose:
Just for the record, Jeph has changed character looks and artstyle all the time, as well as started secondary storylines or just some bit of robot shennanigans. So I dont really see whats so big an issue with todays comics.
ReindeerFlotilla:
--- Quote from: snubnose on 13 Nov 2014, 07:24 ---Just for the record, Jeph has changed character looks and artstyle all the time, as well as started secondary storylines or just some bit of robot shennanigans. So I dont really see whats so big an issue with todays comics.
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Because this isn't a change of art style so much as a change of pacing. (At least how the pace is perceived.) By lowering the word count, Jeph's lowered the information content of each strip. The actual rate of story may not have changed, but it is creating a perception that nothing happened over the last 3 weeks. We had a fairly dense bit oh sqee followed by a week of tension then 3 weeks of not much.
Having recently binged the archives, I know that is pretty normal, but the old dialogue heavy strips still tended to feel like they were moving.
I'm not saying that the new style is a bad thing. I'm saying it's new. We're not used to it. What we are used to is (if I may speculate) is treating dialogue lite comics as filler. This is going to require adjustment.
I don't think the comic is really information lite right now. But Jeph is willing to go hundreds of strips before dropping the payoff for a visual cue.
Only time will tell if this change will pay off, or go by the wayside like the textured hair phase.
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