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pwhodges:
--- Quote from: sfsdfd on 02 Jun 2015, 00:40 ---I'd hope that any author would consider the reaction of the audience to be valuable data.
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Indeed; but you should be aware that to the best of our knowledge Jeph only rarely comes to this forum (even though it is his) to find those reactions.
dexeron:
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 01 Jun 2015, 23:56 ---Sometimes slowness means that any update at all is a treat! (Dresden Codak... which is now on a fortnightly update cycle, which he's late for this week for the second time in a row!).
Anders loves Maria had periods of that as well.
I also dropped Misfile.
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That's been my frustration with "Power Nap," though they seem to finally be updating on a more regular basis (through it's still at most once a week, and rarely that.)
Akima:
--- Quote from: sfsdfd on 02 Jun 2015, 00:40 ---the insistence on portraying the most bleak and revolting aspects, like Faye vomiting all over herself... seriously, WTF? It's pointlessly cruel, both to the characters and the audience.
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What is pointless about it? I'm sure it happens, and isn't "show not tell" a standard maxim of story-telling, especially in a visual medium?
sfsdfd:
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 02 Jun 2015, 02:43 ---
--- Quote from: sfsdfd on 02 Jun 2015, 00:40 ---I'd hope that any author would consider the reaction of the audience to be valuable data.
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Indeed; but you should be aware that to the best of our knowledge Jeph only rarely comes to this forum (even though it is his) to find those reactions.
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Thanks - I wasn't aware. Fair enough.
Secondarily, my point was just to express my reaction, and to see how others felt about the strip as well. The discussion has been worth the time.
sfsdfd:
--- Quote from: Akima on 02 Jun 2015, 05:49 ---
--- Quote from: sfsdfd on 02 Jun 2015, 00:40 ---the insistence on portraying the most bleak and revolting aspects, like Faye vomiting all over herself... seriously, WTF? It's pointlessly cruel, both to the characters and the audience.
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What is pointless about it? I'm sure it happens, and isn't "show not tell" a standard maxim of story-telling, especially in a visual medium?
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Of course - but so is: know your audience.
If you're producing a documentary about World War II, the content will hopefully be vastly different if you're targeting it for (1) a classroom of third-graders, (2) a classroom of high-school students, (3) a bunch of deluded Nazi sympathizers, (4) a group of concentration camp survivors, and (5) a collection of military science scholars.
My point is that this graphic and protracted depiction of Faye's struggles is unsuitable for the likely readership of QC cultivated by the previous 3,000 strips.
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