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That is literally the scene from Scott Pilgrim where Knives sees the band rehearse.
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I never thought I'd say this, but you can at least say this for Scott Pilgrim's musical career: he did in fact own a musical instrument and seemed interested in playing it well.
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Rand Brittain posted:I never thought I'd say this, but you can at least say this for Scott Pilgrim's musical career: he did in fact own a musical instrument and seemed interested in playing it well. playing an instrument is easier than dancing, especially for the british
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TDepressionEarl posted:playing an instrument is easier than dancing, especially for the british This is fair. American and Korean boybands do flashy choreo. British and Irish ones sit on stools.
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I keep forgetting the schedule changes when there's only three or four strips left of any story. So there's two pages just above.
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I can't tell if Solver will read better in print or all at once but I've noticed more and more that the pacing of Allison's stuff is meandering at best. Storylines start, then just sort of wander around a bit before trailing off.
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Solver is not good and I wish he’d do more Steeple instead.
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Bimmi posted:Solver is not good and I wish he’d do more Steeple instead. You're wrong on the first part, but the good news is that we are getting a new Steeple story by the end of next month or so.
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You can’t convince me that any of the stories being told in Solvers (and I use the term “stories” generously here) needed to be told. It’s been an aimless bore from the get-go, and Lottie as the main character just isn’t working for me.
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Bimmi posted:You can’t convince me that any of the stories being told in Solvers (and I use the term “stories” generously here) needed to be told. It’s been an aimless bore from the get-go, and Lottie as the main character just isn’t working for me. I agree, Lottie isn't an especially good main character. But if this is setting up a Little Claire story with Lottie relegated to the background, it'll help redeem "Solvers"
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Bimmi posted:You can’t convince me that any of the stories being told in Solvers (and I use the term “stories” generously here) needed to be told. It’s been an aimless bore from the get-go, and Lottie as the main character just isn’t working for me. They're not even stories, things just happen until they don't.
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I mean, that was Giant Days too. It's slice of life, the premise of detective/'solving' is basically a loose excuse.
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Solver isn't bad in that I like the setting, the set-up could work and I like the characters(since I already did) but it is definitely Allison's weakest stories yet. It feels like he can't bear to let Charlotte go but he also doesn't have anything in mind for her. As I recall she was driven away from detective work, her natural love and drive, so she is now... detective adjacent? But without any long term(or even mid term) set up and pay off aside from the same characters are facing non-problems(even for Bobbinsverse) occasionally. It's like when Allison wrote that Batman crossover story and ended it abruptly in the first act. Solver feels like a series of little mini-stories doing that. It's nice to keep seeing the Bad Machinery crew and all(especially Shauna after a forever and a half) but that's all we've done, visited some old friends. People are enjoying Steeple more since it seems to be building to something, I know I am. And Allison certainly makes it a pain in the rear end to do so but if I could check up on it I remember that even old Scary Go Round would have narrative lines and payoffs you could follow. Doomykins fucked around with this message at 00:24 on Feb 20, 2023 |
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Gaz-L posted:I mean, that was Giant Days too. It's slice of life, the premise of detective/'solving' is basically a loose excuse. Giant Days has through-lines and plotlines in a way that Solver lacks, though like I said, I'm interested to see how it reads in one go.
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Claire isn’t all that interesting either. Glermn shows some promise but we still don’t really know what his deal is, and he’s been maddeningly passive up ‘til just this point. I’m struggling to find a reason to care what happens to any of them. One thing I will say in its favor, the art continues to slap. That time-lapse mini golf page was lots of fun to look at.
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I'm very much enjoying Lottie's first love and Claire's reaction to it. It's funny.
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It seemed for a while that Allison did not really know what to do with post-Blossom-Cooper Shauna Wickle I guess "drifted away to a new friend group at sixth form" is both realistic and also not very great for Allison's style of storytelling
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