I see you are discovering all the ways in which I hated this book :’)
Indeed
You know, I thought it was really, really good for the first 100 pages or so! The stuff with the factory and the dragon was great! It’s just gone so, so far downhill"
What is that from and why does the guy disparaging webcomics look so punchable?
It's called Least I Could Do and the protagonist is indeed extremely punchable in so very many ways beyond the way that he is drawn.
The writer's other comic is basically a better drawn but less well-written version of Order of the Stick if you replaced Belkar with Black Mage from 8-Bit Theater. It's not bad, actually, but it's nothing astounding.
What is that from and why does the guy disparaging webcomics look so punchable?
It's called Least I Could Do and the protagonist is indeed extremely punchable in so very many ways beyond the way that he is drawn.
The writer's other comic is basically a better drawn but less well-written version of Order of the Stick if you replaced Belkar with Black Mage from 8-Bit Theater. It's not bad, actually, but it's nothing astounding.
If I read Least I Could Do, would it amuse me while annoying me a la Star Wars Holiday Special (which my uncle used to have a video of the last half of it, including the commercials, because he used one of those record-over type videos to record it; but now its lost because it was recorded over with something else), or would it simply just make me roll my eyes?
And oh, Looking For Group. Yeah, it's no Order Of The Stick, but its high points are comparable to the low points of Goblins (or the low points of OOTS). Nothing to write home about, but workable and enjoyable.
My first Banks experience. It was OK. Some cool concepts, writing wasn't awful, the left-wing space utopia was fun, the plot had some twists. But but but.
Banks, though he seems like a cosmopolitan guy who's aware of the tropes he's using and their limitations, still commits the basic sin that makes so much science fiction so much less enjoyable to me than it could be. The sin: blandness. Blandness of writing, characterization, worldbuilding, humor -- everything.
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Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Indeed
You know, I thought it was really, really good for the first 100 pages or so! The stuff with the factory and the dragon was great! It’s just gone so, so far downhill"
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Ban Imipolex. What is that from and why does the guy disparaging webcomics look so punchable?
And oh, Looking For Group. Yeah, it's no Order Of The Stick, but its high points are comparable to the low points of Goblins (or the low points of OOTS). Nothing to write home about, but workable and enjoyable.
Banks, though he seems like a cosmopolitan guy who's aware of the tropes he's using and their limitations, still commits the basic sin that makes so much science fiction so much less enjoyable to me than it could be. The sin: blandness. Blandness of writing, characterization, worldbuilding, humor -- everything.