falling into the snarl
Apr. 5th, 2008 08:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ironymaideni'm not sure i like Order of the Stick anymore.
and this is the bizarre part: one of the things that is making me unhappy is that there is way too much written content.*
the story has gotten too big to be communicated effectively in the webcomic format by someone who doesn't have the ability to crank out a page a day. i feel like it's being compensated for by jamming the panels full of word bubbles. i wish the Giant would either rethink, or write and post a few pages of text for us to read and skip the comic ahead to a point in the story that fits the medium. (and i think this problem is the big reason that Start of Darkness didn't do much for me.)
i feel guilty about complaining about the thing i get for free from a guy who is in poor health, but i don't believe any artist should get a pass on work they show in public. i don't need more punchlines; i just need more comic.
any other OotS readers feeling this? or the opposite?
*(usually i love and defend adding more words to comics. unless it's The Black Dossier which i still haven't finished because it was so densely printed that i was getting sick trying to read it on the bus.)
and this is the bizarre part: one of the things that is making me unhappy is that there is way too much written content.*
the story has gotten too big to be communicated effectively in the webcomic format by someone who doesn't have the ability to crank out a page a day. i feel like it's being compensated for by jamming the panels full of word bubbles. i wish the Giant would either rethink, or write and post a few pages of text for us to read and skip the comic ahead to a point in the story that fits the medium. (and i think this problem is the big reason that Start of Darkness didn't do much for me.)
i feel guilty about complaining about the thing i get for free from a guy who is in poor health, but i don't believe any artist should get a pass on work they show in public. i don't need more punchlines; i just need more comic.
any other OotS readers feeling this? or the opposite?
*(usually i love and defend adding more words to comics. unless it's The Black Dossier which i still haven't finished because it was so densely printed that i was getting sick trying to read it on the bus.)
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Date: 2008-04-06 08:32 am (UTC)I neither want nor like overarching plots in web comics. I read online comics for a yuk, not for story. I don't care. They're on my bookmark list, I'm going to read it every day as it is I don't want something to keep track of.
If there is a story, keep it down to a few strips, at most. Anything more and interest wanes.
If I wanted a long story I'd read a book.