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 Post Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2015 11:57 pm 
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For some strange reason, Wednesday feels a year older today... Eh, it's probably just because of the fatal* radiation it's soaking up in this experiment.

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 Post Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2015 12:16 am 
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Sylvia does not think Sam is quite appropriate now does she.

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 Post Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2015 1:02 am 
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Well, she reacted better to Sam then a lot of other women have. :sam:

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 Post Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2015 1:52 am 
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If Sam had a superhero name, he would probably be the Objectifier :sam:

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 Post Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2015 10:29 am 
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Wow. That was pretty smooth for being completely offensive. I'm kind of in awe.

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 Post Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2015 10:57 pm 
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If you want to be a reductionist, you could say Pete should just tell us all the major plot points in a single strip and then be done with the whole thing. Honestly, I do feel that the strip in recent years has taken too plodding a pace. I think that's evident in such things as Road to Bjorkea (ostensibly a relatively minor arc although it touched on some significant points) taking 9 months, whereas most major arcs before Broken did not take nearly that long. In fact, I think it's instructive to look at average chapter length between Phoenix Rising and Broken and compare with average chapter length after Broken.

Having said that though, the idea that introducing some stock characters is a waste because they died quickly is ridiculous. That's not a waste. It's called storytelling. Pete really didn't waste a bunch of time developing them and pretty much gave the bare minimum joke development to just have us rooting for the death of the characters who were basically just a vehicle for Sylvia re-entering the story. Alice and Eric only lasted about a week. The other days of last week may have dragged a little. I don't think having flashbacks now is inappropriate though, and I was expecting it. Having Sylvia just say "hey guys I'm back," which it kind of sounds like you're suggesting, is something that actually would have been stupid. Could the pace be a bit quicker? Probably, but this is better than the sort of rushed storyline that would satisfy you (if anything would).

Edit: I thought I was responding to a ZylonBane post? Did I imagine it?

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 Post Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2015 1:30 am 
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You didn't imagine it. He appears to have removed his comment. (Mods generally announce when they remove something, so I doubt it was one of them.)

edit: I stand corrected!


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 Post Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2015 3:41 pm 
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I did not remove my comment.

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