Comic Discussion > ALICE GROVE
Alice Grove MCDT - January 2015
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There were a lot of people though... He did mention that he actually had to take a bunch of stuff out to make it shorter. Fight scenes themselves are fine for comics like this, but there has to be some exposition, jokes or story advance throughout the fight and not just people punching each other. That goes with any scene I think.
But I do believe in this story we're learning something new about the characters each strip, it's just all kinda subtle.
MrNumbers:
It's official: Today's comic has me stumped
ReindeerFlotilla:
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--- Quote from: ReindeerFlotilla on 19 Jan 2015, 23:43 ---I feel kinda armchair-ish, saying that, but I'm struggling with the same issue in writing, and I don't have a devoted fan base to cover for it. You start thinking, "I can't, as much as I'd like to, take seven strips on this."
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I dunno, Grrl Power has been on the first super-villain battle since March 27th of last year, and will finally finish it this Thursday, according to the news post. Almost a year on one fight.
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Bad example, since I'm not talking about story pacing, but story set up. Grrl Power set up its story hook in like 6 strips, sweetened the hook ~15 strips after that, then got to the first action ~15 strips later. The next big exposition comes in ~20 strips (only 10 after the last action ends). So the Grrl Power pacing seems in line with what I'd expect for a comic book. Which might be an accident, but still.
I don't know the update rate of Grrl Power. I expect it was slower than Alice to start, based on the colors, but the author might be a fast artist/colorist. Setting a solid hook by strip six and then running with it by strip 20? Seems pretty good to me.
Then again, my sense of pacing is imposing rather arbitrary cut offs. For all we know this the tail end of the set up, and an actual hook is about to snap.
I'm not sure. If this were old school QC, I'd say different things about how the story ought to break. But the AG punchlines don't have the same, well, punch as the first QC. I haven't laughed at a single AG. I actually chuckled at several of the Grrl Power. I might have to add that to my reading list. I'm sure there's room at the end.
mikmaxs:
I agree with the recent commentary about pacing. I feel like we still haven't gotten to what the real conflict is going to be, we're just now hopefully going to learn something about the universe, and I know practically nothing about any of the main characters beyond names and basic personality archetypes.
BenRG:
He didn't notice that his tail was missing? So, no nerve endings then. Or some kind of adaptation that stops him from feeling the searing pain of the traumatic amputation of one of his limbs. Some kind of unconscious injury-control adaptation is supported by the fact that Alice didn't notice him sitting in a pool of blood.
This implication of an artificially-augmented body feeds into my 'Body by Me' theory that both Gavia and Ardent might have remodelled their bodies using their nano-bots. I wonder how human they normally look?
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