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WCDT strips 3741 to 3745 (May 14th - 18th 2018)
JoeCovenant:
--- Quote from: awgiedawgie on 18 May 2018, 02:36 ---
--- Quote from: JoeCovenant on 18 May 2018, 01:48 ---Similarly here, I would have expected a few seconds of (Just one frame) of.."Umm..." and then Lip Lock.
A tiny tiny subtlety... nothing else...
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Whereas I automatically inferred that pause - if for nothing else but for them to process what they just said in that penultimate panel, in relation to what they're feeling - so it didn't matter that I didn't see it. Nothing seemed rushed or sudden to me. The entire scene is already animated in my head. I don't need everything animated on the page.
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:) But that's my exact point.
You say yourself that you felt it *needed* that pause.
The only difference being that you just didn't need to *see* it.
But isn't it groovy that we're all differrent and may see things a little differently?
I felt that moment's pause, a tension if you would, was... needed is a bit strong a word... let's just say, required.
So - why do I disagree with your last sentence?
Mainly because animation is one thing. A Comic Strip is another.
(Unless it's a motion comic, some of which look great and some are awful!) :)
You see, to my mind, two of the absolutely greatest Comic Strip writers the world has ever seen (Schulz and Watterson) deliberately included such pauses as I mention above for precisely those reasons.
Maybe that's the rub, maybe my expectation of great comic writing includes using those kinds of pauses - and, as I have said MANY times before, Jeph is at his absolute best when writing for Bubbles...
--- Quote from: Staff_Inflection on 18 May 2018, 02:41 ---There has been a deliberate and obvious slow burn for well over a year.
How much longer did people want it to go on? An entire weeks' worth of comic to them just awkwardly standing in the shop "um-ing" at each other?
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I think the point was made fairly clearly above... "(Just one frame)... A tiny tiny subtlety... nothing else..."
(and I just had a quick look above... another poster said exactly that as well.. one frame...)
I don't mind you disagreeing with me... just don't put words into my mouth. :-)
JoeCovenant:
--- Quote from: Tempus on 18 May 2018, 03:06 ---Another person here registering purely to be able to yell YAAAAAASSSSSSSSSSSSSS!
And damn some people here seem to take a fun webcomic super seriously :/
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...ohhh, you have NO idea how seriously some people take it ! :)
I would STRONGLY advise reading the "Sticky" posts on the main topic boards...
(If you haven;t already done so!)
Staff_Inflection:
--- Quote from: JoeCovenant on 18 May 2018, 03:17 ---
--- Quote from: awgiedawgie on 18 May 2018, 02:36 ---
--- Quote from: JoeCovenant on 18 May 2018, 01:48 ---Similarly here, I would have expected a few seconds of (Just one frame) of.."Umm..." and then Lip Lock.
A tiny tiny subtlety... nothing else...
--- End quote ---
Whereas I automatically inferred that pause - if for nothing else but for them to process what they just said in that penultimate panel, in relation to what they're feeling - so it didn't matter that I didn't see it. Nothing seemed rushed or sudden to me. The entire scene is already animated in my head. I don't need everything animated on the page.
--- End quote ---
:) But that's my exact point.
You say yourself that you felt it *needed* that pause.
The only difference being that you just didn't need to *see* it.
But isn't it groovy that we're all differrent and may see things a little differently?
I felt that moment's pause, a tension if you would, was... needed is a bit strong a word... let's just say, required.
So - why do I disagree with your last sentence?
Mainly because animation is one thing. A Comic Strip is another.
(Unless it's a motion comic, some of which look great and some are awful!) :)
You see, to my mind, two of the absolutely greatest Comic Strip writers the world has ever seen (Schulz and Watterson) deliberately included such pauses as I mention above for precisely those reasons.
Maybe that's the rub, maybe my expectation of great comic writing includes using those kinds of pauses - and, as I have said MANY times before, Jeph is at his absolute best when writing for Bubbles...
--- Quote from: Staff_Inflection on 18 May 2018, 02:41 ---There has been a deliberate and obvious slow burn for well over a year.
How much longer did people want it to go on? An entire weeks' worth of comic to them just awkwardly standing in the shop "um-ing" at each other?
--- End quote ---
I think the point was made fairly clearly above... "(Just one frame)... A tiny tiny subtlety... nothing else..."
(and I just had a quick look above... another poster said exactly that as well.. one frame...)
I don't mind you disagreeing with me... just don't put words into my mouth. :-)
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I wasn't strictly disagreeing with you. Rather I'm sort of incredulous at the idea that some people have that this conclusion was "rushed" or something.
Also, I agree completely with you on the point of Watterson and Schultz.
bhtooefr:
--- Quote from: MrNumbers on 17 May 2018, 19:58 ---I, personally, look forward to seeing Bubbles doing the robot for her booty dance
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But it's Faye's job to do the robot.
de_la_Nae:
Gentle reminder that Raven got her happy ending without being put in a couple.
Gentle reminder that Jeph patiently made several new characters and plotlines over the last year to play with.
Gentle reminder that the comic's been going like 15 years so y'know it's FINE if it ends.
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