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2013-09-15, 05:52 AM (ISO 8601)
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A picture of Tarquin getting shot.
Could somebody make that. Thanks.
Also, as a side note, I think the Giant has fallen down his own hole lately. Back in the strips where Haley lost her voice, we had the part of her say that it just wanted to get back to the comedy. That was the voice of the people of the forum. But now, the Giant has fallen into the same trap. He needs to lighten up the atmosphere of child-murderers, evil-doers and soldiers with something fun for a change. Maybe Elan can be made into a dinosaur like he always wanted!
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2013-09-15, 06:29 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: A picture of Tarquin getting shot.
He's wrapping up a book. Drama is a thing that's going to happen. Right about now, my funk-soul brother.
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2013-09-15, 06:30 AM (ISO 8601)
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2013-09-15, 06:56 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: A picture of Tarquin getting shot.
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2013-09-15, 07:18 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: A picture of Tarquin getting shot.
At this juncture, goofy comedy with absolutely no drama at all would induce some pretty severe mood whiplash. It would also feel pretty wildly out of place in the current story arc.
Just wait for it. I'm sure there will be lighter strips eventually. Just...not during the storyline about Elan's dad being the utterly amoral blood-soaked tyrant of an evil empire.
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2013-09-15, 07:42 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: A picture of Tarquin getting shot.
Except maybe for this: http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0904.html
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2013-09-15, 08:15 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: A picture of Tarquin getting shot.
The official term for it (and by official, I mean the one that TVTropes uses) is Cerebus Syndrome. It's not a bad thing to become more dramatic over time; and while DCF was fun and all, it's nice to have an actual, deep plot.
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2013-09-15, 08:21 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: A picture of Tarquin getting shot.
I also haff potions
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2013-09-15, 09:35 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: A picture of Tarquin getting shot.
http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showt...6#post15476516
I know I'm stealing this from someone else. But it's SO FUNNY
Zweisteine quoting Razanir:
"I am a human sixtyfourthling! Fear my minimal halfling ancestry!"
From: Razanir
Bagnold could be one sixty-fourth halfling.
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2013-09-15, 09:38 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: A picture of Tarquin getting shot.
Yeah, but compare that to this:
http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0012.html
There are no straightforward gag strips like that anymore. Even on a relatively light-hearted strip like the one you linked to, they're in genuine danger of getting killed by a giant Silicon elemental and acknowledge such. The stakes are too high for strips that are 100% aiming for a laugh, without injecting some drama and actual danger into the mix.
Yep. Cerebus syndrome. Though it should be pointed out that, while the comic has definitely tipped much more towards the serious stuff, I can't even remember if there's ever been a strip which is pure drama, without even a single attempt made at getting a laugh. Drama and humor are still very well balanced.
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2013-09-15, 10:52 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: A picture of Tarquin getting shot.
Pure comedy strips happen towards the beginning of books. Like this one; we had Aton, sex taint, and cart of gophers, along with Durkon versus the palm tree, Belkar's sweat woes, et cetera. You don't put pure comedy in the middle of the climax though, unless you really want people scratching their heads and greatly diffusing the dramatic tension. I'm sure we'll see some pure comedy before #950.
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2013-09-15, 11:04 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: A picture of Tarquin getting shot.
well, if oots didn't have a good plot, i won't be reading it. jokes alone can only bring you that far.
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2013-09-15, 11:24 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: A picture of Tarquin getting shot.
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2013-09-15, 11:41 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: A picture of Tarquin getting shot.
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2013-09-15, 11:52 AM (ISO 8601)
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2013-09-15, 11:54 AM (ISO 8601)
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2013-09-15, 12:07 PM (ISO 8601)
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I've complained about excessive drama and lack of humor at times in the past, but I think the current major arc is being wrapped up in a much better way. Except for the few people who loved Nale, I don't think his death was overly dramatic. Tarquin is good for several humorous panels per strip if you don't overreact to the fact that he's evil to characters with names just as he has always been evil to nameless slaves.
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2013-09-15, 12:19 PM (ISO 8601)
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2013-09-15, 12:30 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: A picture of Tarquin getting shot.
There has been a lot of good humour in the recent strips, IMHO:
"--then let me friends go. Dinnae kill them too. Tha's me last request. Tha's all tha matters."
"What's real...is that my family is screwed up and broken. And it's not going to just get magically fixed, ever."
"NERRRGHHALLL! SSAVE MEEE!"
"I never wanted him dead. Ever."
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2013-09-15, 01:56 PM (ISO 8601)
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Actually... Part of the current drama is, well, Tarquin intentionally layering on the drama. Does V know Polymorph? Because, if so, we can maybe get Elan turning into a giant dinosaur for practical purposes, AND the shift to comedy would be just the sort of "Make him fall in a decidedly non-badass way" solution Elan's looking for. Except, well, for the part that would involve eating his dad. Elan probably wouldn't go for that. Maybe we'd need a Belkarsaurus, too.
That, or "Summon 16-Ton Weight."I guess sometimes it's more interesting to accept a mistake and go with it.
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2013-09-15, 02:29 PM (ISO 8601)
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2013-09-15, 03:05 PM (ISO 8601)
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2013-09-15, 03:39 PM (ISO 8601)
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What kind of a shot it should be? I'd prefer Five Star General, but most of the stuff will do.
There must be some sense of order - personal, political or dramatic - and if no one else is going to bring it to this world, I will.
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2013-09-15, 04:05 PM (ISO 8601)
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2013-09-15, 04:08 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: A picture of Tarquin getting shot.
What would they inoculate Tarquin against, though? He's already got rabid narcissism.
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So the song runs on, with shift and change,
Through the years that have no name,
And the late notes soar to a higher range,
But the theme is still the same.
Man's battle-cry and the guns' reply
Blend in with the old, old rhyme
That was traced in the score of the strata marks
While millenniums winked like campfire sparks
Down the winds of unguessed time. -- 4th Stanza, The Bad Lands, Badger Clark
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2013-09-15, 05:08 PM (ISO 8601)
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2013-09-15, 05:14 PM (ISO 8601)
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2013-09-15, 05:32 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: A picture of Tarquin getting shot.
Right, but the term pre-dates TV Tropes.
Incidentally, it also makes an appearance in the work of our own (non-TV-Tropes-reading) Giant.
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2013-09-15, 06:01 PM (ISO 8601)
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2013-09-15, 06:39 PM (ISO 8601)
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That's what I'm asking—do you have an example of that? I've known about Cerebus for over 20 years and I'd never heard the term "Cerebus Syndrome" before this thread. Absent evidence to the contrary, I would assume it was a Television Tropes invention.
(After a little digging, it looks like it originated on a site called Websnark, c. 2004. Nothing comes up on Google from before 2004. That's the same year Television Tropes debuted, and ten years after Reads.)
That's a reference to Cerebus, not to the term "Cerebus Syndrome".
Uh...yes? I've got half a bookshelf full of the phone books and a pile of individual issues.Last edited by jere7my; 2013-09-15 at 06:47 PM.