Comic Discussion > ALICE GROVE
Alice Grove MCDLT - THE END...?
USS Martenclaire:
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 17 Jul 2017, 09:00 ---So Ardent was presumably engineered to be so randy! He was an update dispersal mechanism*.
* I most often use that term in the sentence: "My dog is a couch-grass seed dispersal mechanism".
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Well, of the various things Cora Goodwell *could* have got from Ardent, magic nanotech is definitely one of the better ones.
TheEvilDog:
I would like to reiterate my previous point of too much too soon. Whether or not the Praeses intended this to happen, you now have an unready population that are about to gain tremendous power without the knowledge to use them nor the discipline that comes from earning that knowledge.
They've just planted the seeds of another devastating stage in humanity's history. If humanity survives.
dutchrvl:
--- Quote from: KevxD on 17 Jul 2017, 09:02 ---If the end of Alice Grove is just a tonne of exposition that wraps everything up I'll be very disappointed.
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It looks like that's exactly what will happen, but probably with still quite a few strands left unanswered.
Although I was hoping for AG to continue longer, I definitely understand Jeph for wanting to wrap it up. I mean, it was just a stretch goal and he still kept the comic going for 3 years! As a side-project with low-ish number of followers (and thus not generating much if any income, not an unimportant aspect for a profesisonal web-artist), that's pretty good!
Yes, tons of exposition may not the greatest way to finish such an ambitious story, but it's still a pretty good effort compared to, say, Teahouse, where they simply suddenly stopped the comic and wrote a couple of paragraphs telling us the rest of the story.
Since he apparently had the whole story planned out from early on, I wonder if he really intended to be wrapping it up the way he is. I doubt it, considering the immense difference between the glacial initial pace of the story compared to the much faster pace the past months.
Undrneath:
This feels a little like Jeph has either gotten tired of writing AG or developed writers block and is trying to wrap it up quickly.
TheEvilDog:
Or this was an experiment in storytelling and artistic style that has run its course.
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