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Alice Grove MCDT - January 2015

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ReindeerFlotilla:
I don't find myself agreeing with mikmaxs often, but I don't care. We've got a solid question hook: what is Alice? Solid story hooks: What is this place and where did these two kids come from? But no personal hooks. Alice is a cipher and I don't have any motivation to find out why.

As comics go, I'd have skipped out on this one, except inertia. There's a link to it on the boards, so I keep checking.

It's not hate. I don't find any other characters objectionable. Jeph's given me no reason to dislike them. But he's given me no reason to care about them either.

BenRG:
Called it!  :-D About the chapter thing, I mean. I'm pretty sure that this would be the end of the first issue of a serial-released graphic novel. I wonder if Jeph has any idea of what issue 1's cover art would look like? Probably like that one bit of fan-art with dungeree-clad Alice in a dramatic pose on a hill with the town and wind turbine in the background.

I don't think anyone here doesn't believe that Ardent and Gavia have been deliberately marooned. The unanswered question is: Why?

I'm sticking with my earlier chapter 2 prediction: Alice begins her investigation whilst the kids tell Jack their back-story. All liberally sprinkled with fish-out-of-water/culture shock jokes.

@Reindeer,

I'm drawn back by the potential and the desire to find the answers to those many questions. As for the characters? They're just the means to tell the story.

mikmaxs:

--- Quote from: ReindeerFlotilla on 29 Jan 2015, 23:26 ---I don't find myself agreeing with mikmaxs often, but I don't care.

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I have to say, this comment took me off guard. Not that you tend to disagree with me, I can often be stubborn, have strong opinions, and am bad at filtering and clarifying what I'm trying to say.

I mostly just now realized that I've actually posted enough to have a presence on this forum other than just an anonymous voice. After years of lurking, it's an odd feeling.


@WildRoses, I can't say that I care if this town is stuck with those little horrors, though, because I don't know anyone well enough to care about them except maybe Alice, and even Alice is too much of an enigma for me to care about her as a person. The only townsperson I know is Jack, and he doesn't seem to mind.

ReindeerFlotilla:
I don't find you disagreeable, either. We're just often on different pages. No offense intended. I could have phrased it better. Sorry.

TinPenguin:
So, why are all the Praeses named after trees? Is it a code name? A manufacturer's brand? Is the Outside ruled by Ents? Are they the Grove, as ysth says? Or is each responsible for their own grove, like Alice? Why are most of them genera, but Cupressaceae is a family? Is Cupressaceae the Praeses of Praeses? Or is that Yggdrasil?

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