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I like the implication in Dave's initial shock, like yeah he know what Hijack had been doing and decided to get up close and personal with a guy whose shtick is possession and only lucked out because of the fine print on those powers.
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Jun 22, 2018 16:52
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Zerilan posted:I feel like at this point with yet another character and new concept added in this now 280 page chapter, I've realized that the pacing probably feels better at this point if I just pretend the chapter divisions don't even exist. (If this chapter lasts 26 more pages it will become longer than 1-4 combined) This isn't new. We actually got foreshadowing for this a few times, with various Consortium people talking about the Cousinhood of Man thinking there are "corrupted humans", or "monsters", inside Mayview, that aren't ghost-related/possessed people, and the glimpses of the Cousinhood we've gotten have looked like stereotypical vampire hunters. Also, Dave did just say he "used to be" a spectral, implying that he's something else now. So, yeah, vampires were foreshadowed fairly clearly, if not especially loudly; the only surprising thing here is that it turns out Dave is one, though given his appearance (pale, scraggly hair, weird eyes, skin clinging to his skeleton, etc.) it kind of fits. And him being overly dramatic, because vampires are into that, though I guess everyone in this comic is. Still, we even had people here (such as myself) speculating that he's dead already, though the "vampire" part of that wasn't guessed. Roland Jones fucked around with this message at 17:07 on Jun 22, 2018 |
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Jun 22, 2018 17:01
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Hahahahahaha of course. I always wondered for a concept like this how it would work. Like we had information on how these rules work and it’s glorious that of course a goddamn vampire would be able to see ghosts.
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Jun 22, 2018 17:33
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Zerilan posted:I feel like at this point with yet another character and new concept added in this now 280 page chapter, I've realized that the pacing probably feels better at this point if I just pretend the chapter divisions don't even exist. (If this chapter lasts 26 more pages it will become longer than 1-4 combined) This has been the case since around the end of Hitball, to be honest. Remember Hitball? That was this chapter. The chapter breaks really don't mean anything more than "and then Max slept the night".
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Jun 22, 2018 18:06
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I continue to think Zach has a ton of ideas but no editor to winnow them down and no patience to put off introducing them and giving the audience a chance to breathe. I feel like ultimately, there’s just too much going on.
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Jun 22, 2018 19:12
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In some ways, Paranatural feels like a traditional 16-pages-an-issue comic that's going into a trade paperback, in that it's clearly going to be most enjoyable in a single binge sitting rather than piecemeal like this.
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Jun 22, 2018 20:00
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I’ve said it before but this chapter is fine. He just needed to split it in two after hitball ended.
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Jun 22, 2018 21:39
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Everything leading up to hitball and hitball itself was cool. I was not feeling the part right after hitball and before Hijack reveal (and thats no small flaw, considering how many months it took to get through it), but the reveal of Hijack was great and imho retroactively made the part preceding it a lot better. Everything after Hijack reveal is good again. So yeah, overall, the chapter had been fine. The main issue is glacial pace of updates, but there is nothing that can be done about that, so.... 
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Jun 22, 2018 22:55
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Zerilan posted:I've realized that the pacing probably feels better at this point if I just pretend the chapter divisions don't even exist. Why would you care about them in the first place?
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Lt. Lizard posted:Everything leading up to hitball and hitball itself was cool. I was not feeling the part right after hitball and before Hijack reveal (and thats no small flaw, considering how many months it took to get through it), but the reveal of Hijack was great and imho retroactively made the part preceding it a lot better. Everything after Hijack reveal is good again. literally everything involving the school store should have been cut
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Jun 23, 2018 02:24
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Oxxidation posted:literally everything involving the school store should have been cut Or done at a different point to trim down the number of parallel scenes going on for a lot of the chapter.
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hey so speaking of foreshadowing what do yall think is up with Boss Leader, the mysteriously powerful being who has a special interest in Max and whom we have no idea as to their actual status among the living. Consider; Boss Leader is wrapped up like a mummy. Double consider; she actually straight out refers to Max as son.
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Raposa posted:hey so speaking of foreshadowing what do yall think is up with Boss Leader, the mysteriously powerful being who has a special interest in Max and whom we have no idea as to their actual status among the living. Consider; Boss Leader is wrapped up like a mummy. Double consider; she actually straight out refers to Max as son. if that were to actually be the case id be really loving entertained
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Jun 23, 2018 03:28
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I was juuuust reading through the archives a bit and saw this page which foreshadows a certain local business owner.
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WALL of SCIENCE! posted:I was juuuust reading through the archives a bit and saw this page which foreshadows a certain local business owner. Hand instead of hook though, even if the outfit is the exact same. Unless he wears a fake hand sometimes. But if he was the school president, why wouldn't the student council know him as anything other than a local business owner?
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Jun 23, 2018 04:04
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lol he said "defanged" just a page or two ago, what a card
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Podima posted:Hand instead of hook though, even if the outfit is the exact same. Unless he wears a fake hand sometimes. But if he was the school president, why wouldn't the student council know him as anything other than a local business owner? Outfit isn't the same, the president's tie is red while Davy's is black.
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Who What Now posted:Outfit isn't the same, the president's tie is red while Davy's is black. I'm willing to put that down to 'three actual years have passed'
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Jun 23, 2018 06:19
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Oxxidation posted:literally everything involving the school store should have been cut ....I completely forgot about it, so I guess you have a point.
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Jun 23, 2018 18:40
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Keep the school store, just move it to loving tomorrow.
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Jun 24, 2018 02:34
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Lt. Lizard posted:....I completely forgot about it, so I guess you have a point. when your own characters are repeatedly screaming at each other to stop talking and get on with things, you've probably made a misstep somewhere
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Jun 24, 2018 02:37
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Yeeeah that part was alot of leading to nowhere. Like it was nice to see how they interact without school but the whole alien kid thing while hilarious was not needed. Granted Zack does have this particular thing where they go through some outrageous thing that it ends up being true buuut at the same time, not sure where they are gonna go with the school. LIke techincally it's only been maybe less than a week since Max showed up? In terms of the glacial pacing, after seeing how they do their work it's like yeaaaaah that would do a murder on my hands. They draw the comic on paper, then ink it digitally. Shindragon fucked around with this message at 04:11 on Jun 24, 2018 |
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Jun 24, 2018 04:03
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Oxxidation posted:literally everything involving the school store should have been cut
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Jun 24, 2018 04:32
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The guy's literally destroying his hands to make this, I think nerds can cut him a bit of slack for the time between free comics. I can get pacing complaints, but I don't get the people who complain about update schedules.
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Podima posted:Hand instead of hook though, even if the outfit is the exact same. Unless he wears a fake hand sometimes. But if he was the school president, why wouldn't the student council know him as anything other than a local business owner? I am convinced this dude has two hands and simply holds his hook inside whatever the hemisphere at the base of the hook is called
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Jun 24, 2018 13:31
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zack goes by they now
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Ra Ra Rasputin posted:I can get pacing complaints, but I don't get the people who complain about update schedules. girl dick energy fucked around with this message at 19:16 on Jun 24, 2018 |
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Jun 24, 2018 16:49
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Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:I am convinced this dude has two hands and simply holds his hook inside whatever the hemisphere at the base of the hook is called
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Tollymain posted:zack goes by they now
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Jun 24, 2018 18:26
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poo poo, my bad.
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Jun 24, 2018 19:16
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Isn't that Mr president like, the student council president or something
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I actually did not see this coming at all.
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Does literally every child in this school have some sorta powers, or is aware of the supernatural. Yes, everyone but Suzy
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The Student Store serves a lot of orange juice, and Suzy isn't allowed in. That's probably why 
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Jun 26, 2018 08:24
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I wonder if the "Witch" is the vice-principal. After all, we've seen her puppeteer a bit during Hitball.
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I'm gonna guess she's whoever the Doorman and Forge serve. Somehow it seems fitting Cody is the son of a vampire. There's an air of Twilight about him.
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lmao well, at least we know how dadcula gets distracted long enough for hijack to not croak
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Well that was a page dense with happenings 
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I mean, the whole greater plot arc about Mayview is that nobody's quite sure WHAT'S been going on in there for a rather long stretch of time- the Cousinhood thinks it's become a monster safe haven (and with recent revelations, they might not be wrong) and the Consortium is trying to keep everything from spilling out while trying to find out exactly what is trying to spill out, and then there's Spender's personal agenda and whatever's going on with The Lady/Doorman/Forge and the Circle of Jerks and their pixeldogthings. And we already know several members of the student body are at least in the know about the spirit world at some level (at bare minimum Dimitri, Lisa, possibly Violet and now definitely Cody with Johnny's gang now getting dragged in too.) I wouldn't be surprised if the big gimmick of Mayview is that just about everybody thinks that they're in on the sleepy little town's secret, without knowing that most of the town is in on some of a giant clusterfuck of secrets... Except for Suzy. Never ever secrets for Suzy.
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