Comic Discussion > ALICE GROVE
Alice Grove MCDLT - January 2017
Is it cold in here?:
Welcome, new people!
brasca:
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--- Quote from: brasca on 21 Jan 2017, 12:31 ---... Ardent upgrades it and since he could will it to be a civilian mode of transportation ...
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Has Ardent any control whatsoever over his tech upgrade process? I thought (eg http://www.alicegrove.com/post/130233090364/and-were-back ) he had no control whatsoever.
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Alice theorized that he can subconsciously influence what he upgrades: http://www.alicegrove.com/post/129355329554/ardent-thought-about-bread-and-turned-gavia-into-a. Unfortunately, it hasn't been tested out beyond a water pump, wind up toy bird, and now a flash light.
--- Quote from: BenRG on 22 Jan 2017, 07:51 ---
--- Quote from: Method of Madness on 22 Jan 2017, 07:21 ---Why is calling him by his surname more appropriate?
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Because it reduces the intimacy by several steps. It makes it clear just how minimal you want your your relationship with him to be.
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Indeed. And this guy means business. For the sake of brevity I call him Pate here, but this is definitely someone you would address as Mr. Pate in real life.
mikmaxs:
Is anyone else a little thrown by the pacing here? The story was moving pretty sedately for the first 160-170 pages or so, and then in the last fifteen comics, the speed has ramped up drastically, with pretty little in between to signal the speed change. I thought that the pacing before was too slow for a webcomic that updated with four to six panels once or twice a week, so I think the new speed here is a little better, but seeing as we still know practically nothing about our villain, his goals, his history, (and by extension all those questions about Mr. Church as well,) I'm still not sure how I feel about the new direction.
(Also, minor note: I know that Mr. Church is fast, but he isn't infinitely fast. Should Jesper really be standing within arms reach of the people he is forcing to do his bidding?)
BenRG:
--- Quote from: mikmaxs on 24 Jan 2017, 05:09 ---(Also, minor note: I know that Mr. Church is fast, but he isn't infinitely fast. Should Jesper really be standing within arms reach of the people he is forcing to do his bidding?)
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I'm taking this as a key indicator of one of the strongest aspects of Pate's personality: He's arrogant and enormously confident in his ability to out-think as well as gain and maintain an advantage over his foes. He's so sure that he has Alice and Sedna under his thumb that he can't even be bothered to pretend that they're a threat to him. It's sort of Lex Luthor dialled up to 11 with Church standing in for the Kryptonite ring.
brasca:
--- Quote from: mikmaxs on 24 Jan 2017, 05:09 ---Is anyone else a little thrown by the pacing here? The story was moving pretty sedately for the first 160-170 pages or so, and then in the last fifteen comics, the speed has ramped up drastically, with pretty little in between to signal the speed change. I thought that the pacing before was too slow for a webcomic that updated with four to six panels once or twice a week, so I think the new speed here is a little better, but seeing as we still know practically nothing about our villain, his goals, his history, (and by extension all those questions about Mr. Church as well,) I'm still not sure how I feel about the new direction.
(Also, minor note: I know that Mr. Church is fast, but he isn't infinitely fast. Should Jesper really be standing within arms reach of the people he is forcing to do his bidding?)
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I haven't noticed a change in pacing. Important things are happening now and while there could be some additional panels that provide exposition a lot of it would be filler. We didn't really need to have a scene with them returning to the wagon to get Ardent, or attending to Sedna's wounds, or where Gavia was the whole time since I can assume Pate had her close by to intimidate Alice which brings me to why Pate is willing to risk getting so close to Sedna. Yes, she could kill him before Church could intervene, but it would likely be the last thing she'd ever do unless he wanted to let her witness the brutal murder of all her companions first.
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