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1. 3 months ago on Gil Thorp

   - right, so, what would “simple” mean to you when talking about a soap opera comic strip? And what about the “solid”?

2. 3 months ago on Gil Thorp

   - well, I’m not here to point fingers at no one. I’m here to talk about a comic strip. Let’s make that clear.

3. 3 months ago on Gil Thorp

   - sorry, what I meant by solid was for the daily reference, specially in dialogues. Today’s strip is a good example: it has a start and an end. It’s solid. That’s what I meant.

4. 3 months ago on Gil Thorp

   Complementing what I wrote yesterday, I really like Barajas’ writing. It’s simple and solid. It suits a daily strip for nowadays: if you read any vintage strip, you’ll see that they had a LOT of words. Not that we can’t have that, but we live in a different era where everything is supposed to be fast. If a strip has multiple word balloons, I think most of the readers skip it.

   And that’s why I said I agreed with the user that mentioned too much going on. A daily strip needs to be carefully written in order to make the reader (a) want to come back on the following day to see what else is gonna happen and (b) feel confortable enough to not forget what happened yesterday or the day before.

   It’s risky to have multiple storylines going on since not all readers have access to previous strips and stories. I’d love to reach Barajas and see what he thinks of this.

5. 3 months ago on Gil Thorp

   I got to agree with @TSR1964, there’s too much going on in the strip, and I decided to follow it again on January 1st. That’s a huge problem that Barajas is still trying to deal with.

   I keep mentioning here (and on CK) that a good strip to follow that is a soap opera is Rex Morgan M.D. and Mary Worth: while all the other strips open many and multiple plots about a lot of different stuffs, these two develop one story at a time. Now, of course, you may not like the storyline, but, at least, it’s concise, it has a beginning, a middle and an end, without too many stuff going on besides the main focus.

   Maybe that’s what Gil Thorp needs. One story at a time.

6. 6 months ago on Dick Tracy

   So, the plot thickens even more??

7. 7 months ago on Dick Tracy

   Dude, Pleger’s artwork is delightful. That last panel is amazingly drawn.

8. 7 months ago on Dick Tracy

   Awesome! I love these notes!!

9. 7 months ago on Dick Tracy

   And I meant it! I’m really enjoying this storyline!

10. 7 months ago on Dick Tracy

    Só far, this storyline has been great. I’m looking forward for more development on this mystery that’s going on. So many questions! Time will answer them…