Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT strips 3681 to 3685 (19-23 February 2018)
Gyrre:
--- Quote from: JimC on 25 Feb 2018, 08:31 ---
--- Quote from: Tova on 24 Feb 2018, 16:02 ---She is his favourite because of her flaws.
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Well yeah. Perfect characters are mind bogglingly tedious in fiction. In real life too I expect.
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Though, if handled correctly, they can be interesting. Mary Sue from the webcomic League of Redunt Superheroes for example.
gopher:
--- Quote from: JimC on 25 Feb 2018, 08:31 ---
--- Quote from: Tova on 24 Feb 2018, 16:02 ---She is his favourite because of her flaws.
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Well yeah. Perfect characters are mind bogglingly tedious in fiction. In real life too I expect.
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I get by.
Tova:
--- Quote from: ckridge on 25 Feb 2018, 07:23 ---The great thing about stories is that you can take them apart to see how they work and to look at them from all angles without hurting them, and they go right back together afterward.
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Not always. Bellisario would like a word with you.
ckridge:
"Don't examine this too closely" means "Don't examine this too closely while I am here." You can do whatever you want without the person who asked you not to examine it too closely not present. The story isn't actually part of them. They are attached to it, but only figuratively. The story itself doesn't care one way or another.
That said, the first task in reading a story is to find the point of view from which everything is perfect and the author is right. Not doing that is like standing too close to an Impressionist painting of trees and asserting loudly that you don't see anything but smudges. All you have done is establish that you don't know how to look at pictures. Your first job is always to find the right way to look at the work. Comic strips are simple enough that there are usually several ways to make them come out right, each with its own advantages and disadvantages.
Once you've done that, though, you are free. You can take the thing part with hatred, trying to find every bad impulse it expresses. You can take it apart with love, finding how it contains the whole world and its operating instructions too. You can take it apart with mockery, finding everything absurd and oddly proportioned in it. Each time you find a little bit more about it. If you have a really good story, every so often it blows up in your face while you are tinkering with it, knocking you ass over teakettle so that suddenly everything looks different. It is perverse pleasure, but substantial.
jwhouk:
Mr. Hodgson would like to talk to you about that, but his bosses didn't like him so they shot him into spa-aaace...
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