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Things you miss from older QC strips.
Akima:
--- Quote from: StellaVator on 27 Apr 2015, 23:08 ---but I guess Jeph's willingness to cater to the rise of the denizens of social justice lately.
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I'm not quite sure what that means. Is "rise of the denizens of social justice" the new term for "political correctness gone mad"? I don't think I've noticed such a tendency in QC. Could you give me an example of such catering?
I miss the verbal riffing from the early strips, but I suppose that got purged in the interest of less text.
Aziraphale:
--- Quote from: Akima on 30 Apr 2015, 05:47 ---
I miss the verbal riffing from the early strips, but I suppose that got purged in the interest of less text.
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Now that you mention it, that gets to something else that's been nagging at me lately: the pacing overall seems to have slowed down... kinda the difference between a screwball comedy and a soap opera. I can understand the desire from an artistic standpoint to try to do more with less (especially when you're drawing two strips), but where the older dialog-heavy strips had a bit more snap without getting weighed down, the pacing these days reminds me more of "General Hospital." Small snippet of speech; camera lingers on facial expression; another small snippet of speech.
IOW, in Jeph's current style, the arc that started with strip 500 would've taken several months.
vidugavia:
--- Quote from: StellaVator on 27 Apr 2015, 23:08 ---Not really something about the strip itself, but I guess Jeph's willingness to cater to the rise of the denizens of social justice lately. That is pretty disappointing, but it's to be expected, I suppose.
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I see what you mean. The denizens of social justice have been a constant scourge to creativity since 1854 when Eliza Davis coerced Charles Dickens to reconsider the properness in constantly refering to Fagin as "the jew" in Oliver Twist.
Pink Jenkin:
Social-Justice-upon-Trent is a great town to visit, provided you go off-season. The denizens are generally friendly and accommodating toward tourists, and bibliophiles might be interested to know that the local bookstore takes pride in its large collection of English 18th century literature. (However, for some reason, one of Alexander Pope's poetry collections consistently carry a misprint in its title, replacing The Rape of the Lock with The Violation of the Lock.)
Welu:
--- Quote from: Pink Jenkin on 30 Apr 2015, 10:15 ---Social-Justice-upon-Trent
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I snorted on my cider.
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