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Is it cold in here?:
That's a fascinating and well taken point.
I have a quibble which doesn't refute your main point. Jeph has not yet touched the "most bleak and revolting" parts of addiction. When Faye steals Marten's money to buy booze and kills a pedestrian while driving drunk, only then will we approach that ball park.
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: sfsdfd on 02 Jun 2015, 08:00 ---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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You and I, while disagreeing to some extent, must both avoid considering ourselves "the likely readership". Jeph may know his readership better than either of us, as people from all parts of it contact him directly, and a much smaller sample come to this or any other forum.
Stanistani:
Questionable Content is even more interesting to me when the focus is on character problems. Literature is about struggle. Jeph still adds comic relief, even in the dark strips. If I'm having issues with the pacing of a comic, or the subject, I just give it a rest, come back to it later.
Is it cold in here?:
--- Quote from: Akima on 01 Jun 2015, 15:23 ---I'm a bit puzzled by the idea that serious themes should not be revisited on a continuing basis.
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If I understand right, the criticism being made is about proportion and emphasis.
Rghfrgl:
--- Quote from: Gladstone on 01 Jun 2015, 18:59 ---I understand and share some of the frustration here--I've been slowly losing interest in the comic (to the point that it's now only my second favorite, after Dumbing of Age), and have started scaling back to reading it once a week, instead of waiting for the daily updates.
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That's probably the right way to read it. We've got the old newspaper comic pacing now, it's not written for the day. It's written for the week.
I think that's a bit of a problem since most stories shouldn't go that long. Taking it to the extreme Hanners mole went even longer and that one reddit post kinda nailed it, Marten and Dora's break up only took 4 strips where Hanners mole took 8. Marten and Faye are probably going to talk for three more strips when you could realistically finish up, not the story but this part of the story, in one dialogue heavy strip. And perhaps it will and I'll be surprised, but if we get 3 it turns into a problem because you have to put a punchline in each one and that kinda dilutes it.
Not to say we should get all standalone strips or anything, but most stories should just be 2-3.
More directly on topic, I don't mind getting dramatic since we don't that often. Faye fell off the wagon after probably just a few days qc time was a good twist that hooked me and Marten catching her reeled me in. Despite just complaining about how I'm afraid it's going to go long I really want to see how this goes.
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