Ian's criticism discussion on Bumbleking...

#101 Guest_Shorty_*

GUESTS

Posted 09 January 2009 - 12:53 PM

Oh, daaaaamn.

Guys, I think its safe to say at this point that the comic is a lost cause. If you were hoping to get quality storytelling that focused on potraying strong bonds between of Sonic and a given cast, you may as well put down the book and save you're 2 or so dollars buying something more pleasurable like some ice cream, or cookies--- heck, even more toilet paper for your house.

Because from what I saw on that board, it seems like people only put value on characters based on hollow physical abilities, not so much as how their personalities are even relevant. Its all about the manfights. Splash pages of characters posing in hollow brawls are what these people actually want, and quite frankly, if that's what the book's going to be reduced to, I don't want to be a part of it. Yeech!

#102 Mithrandir

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Posted 11 January 2009 - 06:29 PM

What's so frustrating is that I don't always mind some of the "manfights", and it's nice sometimes when the Sonic universe is approached with a certain kind of whimsy, but, sadly, there's no desire to be anything greater than that. This, despite the fact that it wouldn't be too difficult to achieve, given how the comic has such an assortment of characters, some of them quite strong, that could be developed nicely.

The comic doesn't need to be overly "dark" (something a lot of 80's comics got flack for), it doesn't need to be R-rated...hell, it barely needs to be PG-13 rated. But a balance needs to be struck between mindless anime-esque fan service and heavy-handed darkness. It exists...Christ, the comic's achieved it before, albeit in days of yore.

#103 Guest_Shorty_*

GUESTS

Posted 16 January 2009 - 12:14 PM

I don't mind characters fighting, but when this kind of thing starts taking too much of a focal point there's a problem. Who cares what Sonic and co. are fighting for if there's no reason to care about the characters themselves, let alone what they're fighting or struggling against in a particular issue.

Not to say that the series has to be "dark" in order to be interesting, but yeesh! It wouldn't hurt to balance action with some heart. The comics feel so...hollow, and empty; the opposite extreme of Ken and Karl's work, and there doesn't seem to be any desire to change that problem. At least, not from what I've been seeing so far. I'm not holding my breath on waiting that it ever will, either.