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1. 6 months ago on Dick Tracy

   Really cool mystery so far. I’m looking forward to know what happened on the reasons for the killing. Great job, Costello and Batic!

2. 8 months ago on B.C.

   I swear I wasn’t ready to laugh at this like I did. Well done, Mastroianni!

3. about 1 year 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”?

4. about 1 year 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.

5. about 1 year 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.

6. about 1 year 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.

7. about 1 year 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.

8. over 1 year ago on Dick Tracy

   So, the plot thickens even more??

9. over 1 year ago on Dick Tracy

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

10. over 1 year ago on Dick Tracy

    Awesome! I love these notes!!