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ReindeerFlotilla:
--- Quote from: Stanistani on 02 Jun 2015, 12:36 ---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.
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I would argue that the first 3rd of 2015 hasn't had any real struggle. It's been a pure setup. I would add that while I feel the OP's pain, I don't agree with their thesis. I'm not a fan of QC's comic relief. I'm here for the story.
--- Quote from: Stanistani on 02 Jun 2015, 12:36 ---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.
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Worth considering, but me thinks it as important to remember that the way a person consumes a media may not suit the next person. IMAX, 3D, 2D, dead tree, ebook, 1 page a month, 7 strips a week. It's all different. Personally, this suggested strategy doesn't work for me. I've been too busy to check in on all my comics more than once or twice a week for quite a while.
Akima:
--- Quote from: sfsdfd on 02 Jun 2015, 08:00 ---Of course - but so is: know your audience.
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What makes you think you know Jeph's audience better than he does? I am a part of his audience too, and I don't have any problem with his depiction of Faye's alcoholism so far. I have no quarrel with you exercising your personal taste, or saying "I don't like the way Jeph is handling this issue"; that is perfectly legitimate, but what makes you imagine that your reaction to his work is more typical or common or legitimate than mine or anyone else's, and where do you get the idea that, in not catering to your taste, Jeph demonstrates that he doesn't know his audience?
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 02 Jun 2015, 09:07 ---You and I, while disagreeing to some extent, must both avoid considering ourselves "the likely readership".
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This. I don't know what the "likely reader" of QC is, so I don't claim to be one, or assume that I am one. I don't particularly like someone implying that there is some "likely readership", of which they are a part, to whose tastes Jeph should cater or he's doing something wrong. It is a flavour of the "all right-thinking people agree" argument.
Incidentally, anyone who claims that Marten and Dora's breakup was "handled in four strips" wasn't paying attention. There were storm-clouds on the horizon well before the final bust-up, and turbulence continued well after.
Thrillho:
--- Quote from: sfsdfd on 02 Jun 2015, 00:40 ---As I noted above, the handling of Claire's trans issue has been just utterly spot-on. It's neither been hidden, nor pushed into front and center.
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Except that an alarmingly large number of people in the WCDTs and elsewhere disagree on that, think it had too big a focus, etc. etc.
pwhodges:
No, that was the handling of Marten and Claire's relationship, which was portrayed without explicit focus on the transgender aspect of it.
Thrillho:
Excellent point.
I would only be labouring on the same thing you and Akima were saying anyway, namely that there is no defined core QC audience.
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