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WCDT Strips 3031-3035 (24th to 28th August 2015
mustang6172:
I think I'm going to like Bubbles.
ReindeerFlotilla:
I don't mean as long in comic, so much as I mean as long in the real world.
So, I'm just saying not another 104 comics before something happens. On the other hand, the next 4 comics seems a bit soon.
Is it cold in here?:
Now that's good writing. I'm itching to hear more about Bubbles.
chaospersonified:
--- Quote from: ReindeerFlotilla on 23 Aug 2015, 19:37 ---I don't mean as long in comic, so much as I mean as long in the real world.
So, I'm just saying not another 104 comics before something happens. On the other hand, the next 4 comics seems a bit soon.
--- End quote ---
Like I said, the Sven/Dora rift happened within a week or two of Faye being fired. As long as it's been with the Sven/Dora issue, it's not been much longer with Faye/Dora.
It doesn't matter. We're dealing with BUBBLES! Bubbles is a chill robot. I'm a fan of Bubbles*
*is a sentence I never thought I'd say seriously as an adult man
ReindeerFlotilla:
--- Quote from: chaospersonified on 23 Aug 2015, 20:36 ---
--- Quote from: ReindeerFlotilla on 23 Aug 2015, 19:37 ---I don't mean as long in comic, so much as I mean as long in the real world.
So, I'm just saying not another 104 comics before something happens. On the other hand, the next 4 comics seems a bit soon.
--- End quote ---
Like I said, the Sven/Dora rift happened within a week or two of Faye being fired. As long as it's been with the Sven/Dora issue, it's not been much longer with Faye/Dora.
It doesn't matter. We're dealing with BUBBLES! Bubbles is a chill robot. I'm a fan of Bubbles*
*is a sentence I never thought I'd say seriously as an adult man
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You are right, and I acknowledged that the time in comic is a thing.
I'm talking about the pacing of the storytelling. Jeph could time skip ahead 4 years if he felt the need to establish a time gap, though I'm not saying that would be optimal.
And there have been time gaps. Between Pintsize telling Marten where Faye was and Maten asking Faye, "all week" happened. That's cool.
While it has been 151 comics since Faye was fired, in terms of the story development, it feels rushed to have a heart to heart at this moment. On the other hand, a hundred strips from now (20 weeks) seems like it might be dragging it out (which would give it the same amount of time between the Svenectomy and the resolution. It has been 30 weeks since Faye was fired, but it doesn't feel like Faye's faced enough of Faye.
To reframe it, the time from Sven's return to the make up feels rushed, too. But I'm not bothered by that because the Svenectomy wasn't going anywhere. It wasn't much of challenge for Dora as a person. Faye's issues are big challenges, and come with a host of complications. Her arc from rock bottom to robot welder has been twisty, windy and interrelated. I'd like to see the same applied to the arc to mending fences. So, I wouldn't mind if Faye's nascent relationship with Bubbles is the catalyst to her mending fences (in the same way as Hannelore's bloody mole was the catalyst to Faye: Robot Welder. But I'd like it to expand over more strips than the Sven resolution, without waiting another 100 strips to actually kick off.
This is certainly not a TRUTH. It's simply my preference and the reason for it. 250 total strips feels too long. 150 feels too short (not because of numbers, but because it feels as if more character development is needed).
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