There are times when I really regret finding out about certain web comics. It’s much nicer to be able to discover them and read 2-5 year’s worth at a time so that the occasional pacing problem isn’t so painful. It seems like Parson has been trying to get through the Magic Kingdom for at least a year now. What’s more, I still don’t know why he felt it was necessary in the first place. His stratagem worked and the other side was losing big time. Now everything is in flux again, and I have no idea what’s going on in the Magic Kingdom or why they’re all standing around talking at each other.
Really, if you’re only going to update your comic once every couple of weeks, you really have to work on the pace of your story telling. (And in the case of Goblins, if you insist on spending 10 strips showing every single gory bit of battle, then at least try to have a backlog built up so that a case of the flu doesn’t leave everyone hanging for another week without any sort of plot resolution.)
A bit late with this, but the three women in white are the Weird Sisters from the Gargoyles cartoon; in the show’s canon, they are the same Weird Sisters who appeared to speak prophecy to Macbeth. Their “prophecies”, however, were part of a long-term plan to manipulate several people over the course of a thousand years. (Hey, this show was the trope namer for the Xanatos Gambit.)
Don’t know who the guy with glasses is. My only guess is Edgar Cayce, but none of the pictures I’ve seen show him in a brown suit, and his glasses are different.
Parson went through the Magic Kingdom because he could no longer justify sending others off to fight a fight he wasn’t willing to personally get involved in. It’s an ethical thing, not a tactical.
Possibly. We know that mere separation from Wanda doesn’t break the hold – if so, Ansom would have turned as soon as Jillian carted him off. Apparently separation permits (or increases, if there was some small chance to turn them even in the Arkenpliers-holder’s presence) the potential to turn the Decrypted, but isn’t sufficient in itself.
Ansom might still be hard to turn away from Toolism; he reminds me of the old Spanish saying that a converted Moor eats pork three meals a day.
Yeah, I’m almost at “fuck this going-nowhere-pointless-shit” point with this webcomic, which I’ve only had happen to two others (Sluggy Freelance and Girl Genius)
That the narrative arc which started at Exposition Bridge has ended. Probably we’ll see a time time and/or scene change. Maybe we won’t see the results of Slately & Ossomer taking the offensive directly, but will learn the effects indirectly after-the-fact.
My guess is that the narrative focus will shift to Transylvito and Faq, leaving all the “this webcomic is taking too loooong” folks even more frustrated waiting for the Jetstone and Parson-in-MK storylines to move forward.
At this point I almost think that way back when, the creative team (mostly just Rob Balder) sat down and very carefully thought out the plot to book one, added some hooks they could use when it came time to start a later book, and then just never got around to plotting out what would happen next. That’d be fine if the individual updates worked on their own, but they really don’t–at this point, they’re all setup, and nothing at all has happened for a very long time. I’m not quitting just yet, but I’m really close.
I think that’s it exactly: They’re amateurs. The fact that they can’t keep a steady schedule is one of the reasons they aren’t in newspapers.
There are exceptions, of course, like the Foglios with Girl Genius, or Howard Taylor with Schlock Mercenary. But the webcomic world just doesn’t filter out the vast majority of slacker cartoonists the way the print world does.
Big announcement up. Xin, the illustrator has some family issues so they’re going on hiatus indefinitely. However, starting today, we’re going to see a prequel. Today’s is a text update where we see the popping of Wanda.
Well, clearly Goodminton is the opposite of Badminton and I considered that perhaps “Minnow” was a Gilligan’s Island reference. Rest assured, however, that it’s all a set-up for some godawful punnage yet to be unleashed.
Perhaps when we start seeing some illustrations to accompany the text updates, things will become more clear. One thing that worried me when I read of Rob’s intentions with these prequels was that he might write himself into a corner and put his destination in the main books into “cant-get-there-from-here”-Land.
But I’m going to trust that wherever he takes the story (and the story takes him) it’s going to be a worthwhile ride for me as a reader.
Sending out positive thoughts to Xin and her loved ones!
P.S. Speaking of Girl Genius (somebody did, didn’t they?), isn’t it about time the name of the current story arc was changed to something other than “Vole Makes His Move”?