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- Thu Sep 30, 2021 8:09 pm
- Forum: Old Comic Discussion
- Topic: 2021/09/28 - Getting Hot In Here
- Replies: 54
- Views: 13736
Re: 2021/09/28 - Getting Hot In Here
!!QUOTE WALL INCOMING!! 1)Sasha being abused by her alcoholic father which was solved offscreen and glanced over with a joke So, what you're saying is you'd prefer to follow those characters through the legal minutia of an animal cruelty investigation that we already have the basic details on, rath...
- Thu Sep 30, 2021 12:43 pm
- Forum: Old Comic Discussion
- Topic: 2021/09/28 - Getting Hot In Here
- Replies: 54
- Views: 13736
Re: 2021/09/28 - Getting Hot In Here
Perhaps since it’s happened so often, these flaws that you’ve pointed out were intentional on Rick’s part. He’s done strips without jokes before. In fact, immediately after that Gale flashback where she’s stitching herself up, we get a callback that changes the mood of a previous joke comic, recont...
- Thu Sep 30, 2021 10:33 am
- Forum: Old Comic Discussion
- Topic: 2021/09/28 - Getting Hot In Here
- Replies: 54
- Views: 13736
Re: 2021/09/28 - Getting Hot In Here
Except that the problem wasn't that you intended to add drama. It's that you have no sense of tone and create a giant mess. That Buffy the vampire slayer as an example. In that series there's comedy and drama, but they don't interrupt a highly emotional scene to throw pies in the background. Wanna ...
- Wed Sep 29, 2021 9:18 am
- Forum: Old Comic Discussion
- Topic: 2021/09/28 - Getting Hot In Here
- Replies: 54
- Views: 13736
Re: 2021/09/28 - Getting Hot In Here
Except that the problem wasn't that you intended to add drama. It's that you have no sense of tone and create a giant mess. That Buffy the vampire slayer as an example. In that series there's comedy and drama, but they don't interrupt a highly emotional scene to throw pies in the background. Wanna a...
- Fri Oct 12, 2018 6:22 am
- Forum: Old Comic Discussion
- Topic: 2018/10/12 - Anything You Can Do
- Replies: 90
- Views: 32174
Re: 2018/10/12 - Anything You Can Do
That end at the bottom made me laugh.
- Thu Oct 11, 2018 3:52 pm
- Forum: The Dead Thread Bed
- Topic: I just can't get invested in this story anymore
- Replies: 21
- Views: 13461
Re: I just can't get invested in this story anymore
Having set up this thread to make a broad critical point, Zidane, you might want to continue your observations (as most of us do) on a submission by submission basis with a little more focus. Yours is probably the most "total" critique I've seen of Housepets! as a comic work, but how much...
- Thu Oct 11, 2018 8:55 am
- Forum: The Dead Thread Bed
- Topic: I just can't get invested in this story anymore
- Replies: 21
- Views: 13461
Re: I just can't get invested in this story anymore
No-one says - nor has anyone any right to say - don't criticise but, for it to be useful, criticism has to be productive and helpful. Continual negative bashing serves no positive purpose. You say that you saw potential but you don't say what that potential IS or how to act on that. Instead you jus...
- Thu Oct 11, 2018 8:08 am
- Forum: The Dead Thread Bed
- Topic: I just can't get invested in this story anymore
- Replies: 21
- Views: 13461
Re: I just can't get invested in this story anymore
You make two arguments that we've seen before: that things are not being shown on-panel to your satisfaction, and that the jokes do not weave into the story to your satisfaction. Neither of these are new. Rick is constantly juggling many factors to balance this comic in terms of how much detail is ...
- Thu Oct 11, 2018 7:20 am
- Forum: The Dead Thread Bed
- Topic: I just can't get invested in this story anymore
- Replies: 21
- Views: 13461
Re: I just can't get invested in this story anymore
What makes you think the ending of this last arc was a joke? It didn’t really seem like one to me - more like the way a misunderstanding like this usually ends in reality. Sure, it was funny, but that doesn’t make it a goof for a goofs sake. Gale: "You've hurt me badly, Miles. You've betrayed ...
- Wed Oct 10, 2018 9:02 pm
- Forum: The Dead Thread Bed
- Topic: I just can't get invested in this story anymore
- Replies: 21
- Views: 13461
Re: I just can't get invested in this story anymore
What makes you think the ending of this last arc was a joke? It didn’t really seem like one to me - more like the way a misunderstanding like this usually ends in reality. Sure, it was funny, but that doesn’t make it a goof for a goofs sake. Gale: "You've hurt me badly, Miles. You've betrayed ...
- Wed Oct 10, 2018 8:30 pm
- Forum: The Dead Thread Bed
- Topic: I just can't get invested in this story anymore
- Replies: 21
- Views: 13461
Re: I just can't get invested in this story anymore
Carl Barks treated the Disney ducks the same way Rick treats his crew - a serious story salted with a couple of gags, a pratfall or two, an irony here, a sardonic moralization there, and a "lesson learned" at the end ... A lesson that might be uplifting but just as likely rueful, cynical,...
- Wed Oct 10, 2018 11:58 am
- Forum: The Dead Thread Bed
- Topic: I just can't get invested in this story anymore
- Replies: 21
- Views: 13461
Re: I just can't get invested in this story anymore
This is a smaller response as I think you’re just forgetting some stuff, it’s hard to argue that a lot of Arcs involving King are pretty consistent. If Rick sets them up as being serious, the arc stays pretty serious, heck I think there are people who complain about that stuff because they felt Ric...
- Wed Oct 10, 2018 11:21 am
- Forum: The Dead Thread Bed
- Topic: I just can't get invested in this story anymore
- Replies: 21
- Views: 13461
Re: I just can't get invested in this story anymore
I’d like to have a mild argument with you if you’d be quite alright with that Zidane. While Housepets has always been a more jokey series, he has had his hand at a lot of stories with more of a serious lean towards them, and while not my cup of tea, I know a lot of people enjoy one of his more seri...
- Wed Oct 10, 2018 10:01 am
- Forum: The Dead Thread Bed
- Topic: I just can't get invested in this story anymore
- Replies: 21
- Views: 13461
I just can't get invested in this story anymore
Hi. I've found this webcomic some time ago and decided to take a look at it because some people said the story was good and stuff. Okay. I've read through the bulk of pages (gotta praise the Rick for not only updating this often but also for evolving the artstyle) and I must say that this comic has ...