Does anyone else hate crossovers?
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J-Buckleyline
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That's funny. I thought the main reason for this comic was for crossovers.
The best thing to happen to some people,is Resident Farmer. The best thing to happen to me is cel-shaded graphics and translated Japanese Anime. Whoo-hoo!
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Underbelly
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I liked the first Fans/CRFH crossover, but then I stopped reading CRFH, and it was hard to really follow the second, briefer one. Another Fans related problem is T Campbell's new site format, Graphic Smash. You have to join up and pay to read the archives. I can see the logic behind it, but I really can't see how it'll work to pull in new readers. I mean, Fans is such a complex comic that reading just the current page will be basically meaningless to anyone who hasn't already read the archives.
Same thing goes for Mnemesis. I read it before it joined Graphic Smash, but I just can't see how the uninitiated are going to read one page of it and decide to pay for the rest. I think that format would be better suited to gag-a-day, completely non-plot oriented strips. Otherwise new readers just won't get it.
But back to crossovers, I'm avoiding them like the plague. I'll do cameos in a crowd without any real dialogue, like I did here with Hank from Squaresville, but I'm trying to make a story with a whole new universe at my comic. I feel it would be too much for the reader to try and absorb another universe on top of that with a crossover.
Crossovers don't even work that well in the big leagues either. The DC guys do it very well, 'cause there characters are so familiar. But that whole StormWatch/Wild Cats/Alien crossover at Wildstorm was just bad. It seemed like a bizarre and incongruous way to end StormWatch.
Okay, I've clearly ranted enough.
Same thing goes for Mnemesis. I read it before it joined Graphic Smash, but I just can't see how the uninitiated are going to read one page of it and decide to pay for the rest. I think that format would be better suited to gag-a-day, completely non-plot oriented strips. Otherwise new readers just won't get it.
But back to crossovers, I'm avoiding them like the plague. I'll do cameos in a crowd without any real dialogue, like I did here with Hank from Squaresville, but I'm trying to make a story with a whole new universe at my comic. I feel it would be too much for the reader to try and absorb another universe on top of that with a crossover.
Crossovers don't even work that well in the big leagues either. The DC guys do it very well, 'cause there characters are so familiar. But that whole StormWatch/Wild Cats/Alien crossover at Wildstorm was just bad. It seemed like a bizarre and incongruous way to end StormWatch.
Okay, I've clearly ranted enough.
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"marmite"?
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I mean, as long as you like fairly final endings.
I mean, as long as you like fairly final endings.
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Marmite is a brown spread quite like jam that humans sometimes apply to bread before they eat it.VileTerror wrote:"marmite"?
The entire modern world is split in half between those who absolutely detest it (like myself for example) and those who for some strange reason actually like it.
I think it smells awful.
Well, some crossovers are good.
But usualy they are very confusing. Especially if you're reading just one of the parties involved, then you have to make a choice- read the others, or stay confused.
Often it seems the authors have troubles cooperating, creating tons of annoying inconsistiencies.
But some are good.
But usualy they are very confusing. Especially if you're reading just one of the parties involved, then you have to make a choice- read the others, or stay confused.
Often it seems the authors have troubles cooperating, creating tons of annoying inconsistiencies.
But some are good.
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