by Ganthan » Tue Mar 26, 2013 9:54 am
I hope I'm not giving you all too much shit over this comprehension thing. It's just that I'm one of those fairly unimaginative people who has a hard time not taking everything I see completely literally. A few pages ago we had Jean putting on a fake EEK! show with wispy genie legs and Ben said it was just to make her look goofy. Personally I don't think it made her look goofy. It made her look like a genie, and frankly it didn't make any sense at all.
If you guys recall when the comic first started up, the morning after Sarah's first transformation we had the whole cast together discussing their future and had weird stuff like Butch suddenly being outside facing a rising sun (or was it a setting sun?) then suddenly back inside, then one panel crowded with stuff like chibi versions of Jean, Butch and Sally, the TV having a face and topping it all off with Sally berating Jean with, "It's not nice to tease the Becca." Oh yeah, it makes perfect sense for a school teacher to suddenly forget how to use English properly.
At least these are all only visual gags and therefore have no real relevance to the plot in any way, which puts it miles above stuff like Wapsi Square where figuring out all of the subtle hints, misdirections, character motivation changes, and fragmented piecemeal back stories for every character is vital to understanding what's going on at all. For a comic that updated every single weekday and had more dialog than a soap opera with Tourette's I still had to quit reading it before I killed someone in sheer confused frustration.
I believe in no God, no invisible man in the sky.
-Andrew Ryan, Bioshock
...and don't forget the ponies.