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The In Hindsight thread

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ChipNoir:
I checked back five pages, and I'm not even sure what keywords to use to search for this anyways but...

I've gone back to beginning of QC as I tend to do every few years (Wow, that long) and I've just reached the point where Marten meets Hannelore for the first time. It's the most bizarre experience, as she's so completely different from where she is in the current run. It took me a moment to even remember that it was Hannelore and the whole situation as it unfolded.

So, have any of you gone back to earlier parts of the series, and just gone "...Wow, how did we get from there to here?" in terms of character developments?

celticgeek:
I go back, either to the beginning, or to some previous point, and read a few hundred of the comics, because I enjoy re-reading about how we got from there to here.

Thrillho:
The early strips are so unrecognisable that I almost can't stand to read them. They're a completely different beast and going back there can be hugely jarring. It's not even about quality, just difference of art and writing style.

Zebediah:
Hannelore's changes are the most severe because, as Jeph has explained, he really didn't know where he was going with the character when he introduced her. He retconned it later by saying she was on some pretty heavy anti-anxiety meds at the time.

And, of course, Cosette looks so different now that she is clearly The Other Darren.

Welu:
I've gone back and read the comic again a few times. Sometimes I've hit random and read for a while from where it lands me.

Marigold is a character I thought had an interesting intro compared to where she is now. She had the confidence to challenge Marten when she thought Pintsize was being abused and demand payment for her work fixing him. She seemed to lose that self-assuredness somewhere, or at least was so passionate in that instance to overcome a lack of it.

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