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rago Since: Sep, 2011
10/03/2012 13:35:45
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Not as interesting as it should be

Carpe Chaos is not a webcomic I read regularly. However, it is distinctive enough that every once in a while I'll remember it exists. Then, I'll go read the newest chapters, only to promptly forget about it again later on. It's not very good at keeping your attention, is what I'm saying.

It's a flaw of the format, I think. When the plot and characters are switched out so frequently, it's difficult to get invested in anything. Of the comics they have out now, the most interesting are the multi-chapter ones with actual plots (Rising Up is the one I remember), but even these end up feeling distant and slow sometimes. The latest one, "Transmissions", is basically a lot of exposition and not much else. I did also like a couple of the shorter vignette-type stories that work sort of as character studies (Hard lessons). Many of the one-chapter stories have promising germs for a plot, but unfortunately they have not been expanded. The comics that involve religion or the military get into preachy territory and focus on the message at the expense of the story.

The other big problem is that the aliens are completely interchangeable. Within a species their designs are almost identical. If I want to tell the characters apart at all, I have to keep careful track of teeny differences, like tattoo placement, or spot patterns, or the color of the trim on their uniforms. Any kind of action scene is a confusing mess because I can't tell who's who.


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