REVIEW: End of Month Reviews #52 - April 2008 [spoilers]

Saxon Brenton Saxon.Brenton at uts.edu.au
Wed May 7 19:36:08 PDT 2008


On Weds 7/Apr/08 Lalo Martins Lalo Martins [lalo.martins at gmail.com]
replied:

> Also spracht Saxon Brenton (Wed, 07 May 2008 05:15:48 +0000):
>> Nevertheless, I'm
>> sitting here worrying that the combination of an ensemble cast, plus 
>> the late appearance of the Net.Trenchcoat Brigade, may make this look

>> like the equivalent of an Event comic from one of the mainstream 
>> publishers.
>
> My understanding is that one (minor) goal Arthur and I have been 
> shooting for is to poke fun at mainstream Event comics.  (Arthur 
> with BC and BM, me with 58.5 and my suggestions and contributions 
> to BC/BM.)  And one of the reasons I enjoyed BC#0 is that it was 
> the apex of this minor goal; it was IMO so well done that now we 
> don't need to do it so much anymore, I feel that "the fun has been 
> poked" :-P  And yet, it has done that without losing its 
> effectiveness as part of the story.
 
Yes.  And I really should have taken that angle into consideration 
because it's not as though it shouldn't have been obvious to me.  
In retrospect there are a few points of sloppy logic in EoMR52;  I 
think my brain is becomming frazzled if I sit uppast 1 am writing 
stuff.

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Saxon Brenton



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