crunkbot… Calvin and Hobbes and Cul de Sac! Really? Dude, those are really big shoes. That is like the tip-top of the pile. But why not look up. Why not walk uphill (get it… Up Hill).
Zack Hill is part of a long line of rascal child (I like your term by the way) strips. I do think that Mr Deering is trying to do something a little different with it… he is trying to do it darker than the usual fare. He is not going for delightful at all. This red headed kid is not a scamp or prince charming. He is just unlikable.
But maybe this strip can aim higher. Maybe we all can when it comes right down to it.
Take the “no-neck little monstah.” and increase the voltage… not to fry the kid but to make him dance with more energy in his not-likable zone.
(I do think the kid needs to get his in the end… and I mean really get his… far more often than he does. The anvil needs to fall on him more than it does.)
Perceptive comments,especially regarding the problems with continuity and lack of consistency in tone. And if i’m
understanding the general flow of the “likeability”
comments, unlikeability is okay as long as it is the
right kind of unlikeability . By that, I mean the sort of
unlikeability that the reader can recognize as consistent
or familiar -real-character traits.
I appreciate, as well, your recognizing that i’m trying for something different, here. Trying being the operative word…
I do now. Some of your more detailed critriques give me a much better idea of where you’re coming from than the short quips. Some of the shorter ones can, admittedly,
be quite on target, though.
stopgap over 14 years ago
Mr. Grumbine’s room has got to be the grossest ever.
detour_jones over 14 years ago
crunkbot… Calvin and Hobbes and Cul de Sac! Really? Dude, those are really big shoes. That is like the tip-top of the pile. But why not look up. Why not walk uphill (get it… Up Hill).
Zack Hill is part of a long line of rascal child (I like your term by the way) strips. I do think that Mr Deering is trying to do something a little different with it… he is trying to do it darker than the usual fare. He is not going for delightful at all. This red headed kid is not a scamp or prince charming. He is just unlikable.
But maybe this strip can aim higher. Maybe we all can when it comes right down to it.
Take the “no-neck little monstah.” and increase the voltage… not to fry the kid but to make him dance with more energy in his not-likable zone.
(I do think the kid needs to get his in the end… and I mean really get his… far more often than he does. The anvil needs to fall on him more than it does.)
bueller over 14 years ago
Perceptive comments,especially regarding the problems with continuity and lack of consistency in tone. And if i’m understanding the general flow of the “likeability” comments, unlikeability is okay as long as it is the right kind of unlikeability . By that, I mean the sort of unlikeability that the reader can recognize as consistent or familiar -real-character traits.
I appreciate, as well, your recognizing that i’m trying for something different, here. Trying being the operative word…
bueller over 14 years ago
I do now. Some of your more detailed critriques give me a much better idea of where you’re coming from than the short quips. Some of the shorter ones can, admittedly, be quite on target, though.
COWBOY7 over 14 years ago
Just move forward, Zack!