Comic Discussion > ALICE GROVE
Alice Grove MCDT - May 2015
FunkyTuba:
--- Quote from: mikmaxs on 31 May 2015, 12:12 --- My issue is that I don't know what he's trying to do, nine months in. If he was clearly trying to create an ambiguous character it'd be one thing, but the intent isn't very clear. If I'm supposed to like her I can't because she's a jerk, if I'm supposed to empathize with her I can't because we don't know anything about her, if I'm supposed to dislike her then she should have started some kind of character growth by now, and if I'm supposed to be intrigued by her then we should be getting information more clearly or quickly 'cause at the current pace I really don't care.
I can't say she's *badly* characterized because she's barely been characterized at all.
--- End quote ---
9 months IRL (not that long really)
66 comics (not that many)
a few months in-comic (a fleeting instance to Alice, now that we know her longevity and timescale)
give Jeph a chance to tell the story his way (or wait until he's done and you can buy the book and read it all at once)
mikmaxs:
--- Quote from: FunkyTuba on 01 Jun 2015, 16:03 ---9 months IRL (not that long really)
66 comics (not that many)
a few months in-comic (a fleeting instance to Alice, now that we know her longevity and timescale)
give Jeph a chance to tell the story his way (or wait until he's done and you can buy the book and read it all at once)
--- End quote ---
You write a story with your limitations in mind. If you're only going to give two comics a week, that's fine, but you have to make sure you're economizing heavily to pull that off. Nine months may not be a vast amount of time and 66 comics isn't an immense book's worth of pages, but it's still a huge amount of time and a plentiful number of comics for basic things like setting up characters and conflict.
I've mentioned this before, too, but the story doesn't really read well as a comic book either. (Next to contemporaries of the genre.) If you read it like that, the setup-setup-punchline format present undercuts any type of flowing storytelling and the implied space between almost every comic doesn't work as well if things are arranged back-to-back. Arguing that it's supposed to be read all at once doesn't help.
Method of Madness:
Who cares how it's "supposed" to be read? Read it however you want.
pwhodges:
And if it doesn't work for you, don't read it at all.
FunkyTuba:
--- Quote from: mikmaxs on 01 Jun 2015, 21:10 ---You write a story with your limitations in mind.[...]
--- End quote ---
I don't mean to put words in his mouth, but it appears that Jeph is not interested in constraining himself to whatever limitations you seem to have in mind for him.
At the same time, such investment in the storyline and being impatient to see what's in store is itself a pretty high compliment.
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version