ChewyChewy wrote:Sleet wrote:There's only so much you can put in a comic strip. If you start focusing too much on showing what a character's complete personality is like, then suddenly you don't have much of a plot. Or at least an interesting one.
I disagree--you could have the plot DEMONSTRATE what the character's personality is like based on how he or she reacts to specific situations....
Actually, Sleet is right in my opinion
We learn about characters during the story. About their personality, behavior, likes, private life...
When some character appears in a story, there is a chance to learn something about him more. That's what hooks the reader. He is curious what will happen next, and will something surprise him.
Example can be Fox. He was firstly known as one of the bullies who was standing at Bino's side and was picking on Peanut. But today, we know about him more. And maybe we will learn something about him even more, who knows?
Same thing is happening with Fido at this moment. He is known as a Top Dog of the neighborhood, who protects everyone from dangerous ferals, and tries to change pets legal rights for better. But as Indagare said, when reading some strips about him, we could also see his negative points. Every being has his positives and negatives. Fido is not an exeption. Today, we learned about him something new, from the strip and Mr. Griffin's explanation.
That's why it's impossible to explain everything about a character just in one story. Because if that would happen, we would know everything and there would be no point to enjoy the comic. It would become boring. And there wouldn't be what to discuss about on boards.
We can't get everything on a silver plate
Mr. Griffin can't tell us everything. We need to find out by ourselves