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Here is some *legitimate* criticism (because it uses capital letters I guess?) I think it would be wonderful if more of the strips were one-off gags like the good old days. Now that the characters are fairly established and we've seen them under duress, it would be nice to let them off the hook for a change and just living the quirky, mundane lives we're used to from the archives. When was the last time the gang sat down to watch some porn? Or have a few brews in the backyard? Achewood has easily established itself as a place where anything can happen, but that doesn't necessarily mean anything particularly impossible has to happen on a consistent basis. Maybe the fanflow contains strips that cater towards this. I don't know. Personally, I think it's great that the characters have a persistence. They have depth, character, personalities we can relate to. But even when their lives are changed drastically (Bensington Butters and Ray finding Lonis Edison), those things don't seem to persist. Ray comes back not much more changed for the experience, and we never hear from Butters again. On the flip side, Chris should feel free to alter the state of the characters and have it *not* be a big deal. Perhaps Lyle manages to scrape enough cash together to move out, but nothing drastic happens because of it. All in all, Achewood is still marvelously drawn, characterized, and written. Part of what makes me come back is never knowing where any particular strip is going to lead. It may be a set-up for a pun or it may alter the fates of the characters forever. Take this all with a pillar of salt :-) We are, in the end, arguing about cartoon cats on the Internet.
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Grilldos posted:While I disagree with you on many counts, you're entitled to those opinions and even if I argued against you neither of us would be right. What is this bizarre meme I see that opinions can't be wrong? There are particular devices that are used in every kind of writing, from stage plays to cartoons to comic books. If those devices are employed too frequently, or too sparingly, the effect it has on the entire work can be anything from bad to horrible. If I were to say my opinion is that Romeo and Juliet should have survived at the end of the play, my opinion would be wrong, because Romeo and Juliet is a dramatic tragedy. I say this with full knowledge that webcomics as a medium are still being mapped out, but it's wholly unreasonable to say that no opinion on the direction they take is wrong. Everything Onstad employs in his work: conflict, rising action, resolution, denouement, comic relief, dry humor, are tools with explicit uses, benefits, and drawbacks. Creative work is not immune from correctness or incorrectness, and saying that no opinion is wrong is completely meaningless. Opinions certainly can be valid or invalid depending on the context of the work, especially when they are informed from prior work, historical convention, and so on.
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