Torg has a problem with keeping his flashbacks accurate, doesn't he?
This
strip was funny, but it's the warning below the strip that really sells the joke.
...
So, am I just talking to myself in this thread, or ...?
edited 4th Feb '10 2:20:31 AM by Raven Wilder
Pete has apparently noticed his pacing problems, so hopefully something interesting will happen soon.
It's not like I want Sluggy to end, but the plot is moving way too slowly and inconsequentially, especially considering the way Abrams has already raised the stakes. He can't expect his audience to take the jokey, silly comics well after kicking the plot through the roof last year.
We're not just men of science, we're men of TROPE!^"That Which Redeems" didn't have an ending of pure, absolute hopelessness though. I still enjoy the comic, of course, but even I admit that Zoe's apparent death, Hereti Corp's total victory over the heroes, Riff willingly being "enslaved" by 4U because of Wangst, and Torg's deteriorating mental condition being immediatly followed by a hilarious "working for a wannabe supervillain" arc is a bit jarring.
And just as Pete's home is getting hit with another plague, too.
Before I remembered that the spaceship doesn't have any weapons, I was half-expecting Torg to pull out a Kill Sat feature and remove Hereti-Corp right then and there.
Okay, I know it's almost certainly been done before, but can anyone else think of time when characters have weaponized Murphy's Law like this?
edited 3rd Mar '10 1:11:59 AM by Raven Wilder
Okay, I just had to add this "larger wetnap"
comment to the Crowning Moment Of Funny section.
Well duh
. I called alt-Schlock being His Masterness back in October.
edited 11th Apr '10 8:54:42 PM by Neep
You've lost. You're the Bomb Squad after the bomb's gone off. I'm the blast ongoing.I still maintain that His Masterness is actually Roberts
, who's going from dimension to dimension, trying out various world domination plans so Hereti-Corp can see what works and what doesn't.
I mean, the guy's got to be doing something since we last saw him, and that helmet on his head looks vaguely like the posters of His Masterness.
I really enjoyed it. Just try and take it slow, an Archive Binge can wreck an entire week.
Fight smart, not fair.The Cerebus Syndrome is really overstated. With the exception of the "Fire And Rain" Story Arc, going more than one or two strips without a punchline is pretty darn rare, even in the middle of the most dramatic storylines. And said dramatic storylines will usually be interspersed with plenty of light, comedic, wacky stuff.
To give an example that doesn't spoil much of anything: this
strip is (not counting a very brief epilogue) the ending of one of the most dramatic storylines in the strip's history; this
strip is the beginning of the Story Arc that begins immediately after that.
So, does this
count as subverting The Revolution Will Not Be Vilified?
edited 12th May '10 3:23:47 AM by RavenWilder
My issue is less the Cerebus Syndrome and more the fact that it just stops being funny after awhile. "Light hearted" plots intended to break up the complex material still get bogged down with needless exposition and just aren't funny. The serious plots drag out for weeks or months and these days, they rarely resolve.
I personally feel it started going downhill with That Which Redeems, which took entirely took long, pushed the comic into pure melodrama, and also hit the point where jokes just weren't funny anymore.
On another note, am I the only one bothered somewhat by how dickish Torg seems be of late?
If it were any other setting, I'd be fine with it, being somewhat inclined towards combat pragmatism. But from Torg? Even knowing he's not 'Torg Prime' (so to speak), that kind of ruthlessness seems, to me, to be out of character for him.
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Anyone else really want this page
as a poster?