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sneezy, grumpy, sleepy, and dopey
Mar. 29th, 2005 11:34 amI desperately need to be up dealing with car insurance, but I'm sick, and all I feel up to doing is laying here (lying here?) blowing my nose. Also I am reluctant to go out and inflict my germy self on the populace. God I hate being sick. At least I feel justified in having skipped Scottish last night.
In other news the Girl Genius print comic is apparently ending, to be replaced by a thrice-weekly webcomic. It seems the Foglios only ever regarded the individual comics as a sort of publicity vehicle for the collections, and they think the web will be cheaper/better/etc. I for one am very disappointed, as I *liked* the individual comics, the pacing, the buying of one and having all those new pages at once... Kaja made some comments in the yahoo!group about "trying to get Phil to stop laying things out for the short, temporary comic issues", which has "driven her crazy all along since it's only in comic form for a little while but is in a book forever." So apparently the move to continual one-page updates (which, hahahah, how long do you think *that* is going to last) pleases her because the structure will be able to be more freeform within the constraints of the graphic novel segments. I think that's a *bad* thing. I think, especially in an action-adventure comic, strong episodic structure encourages a clearer, easier-to-follow storyline, helps writers set a good pace (not spending forever dragging out some single event, but also not rushing through important scenes), and is just fun to read.* Also, in the web -> print model, I just don't find it all that *fun* to buy the print comic; I probably *will*, because I want to have Girl Genius around to reread, but it's just not nearly as exciting to plunk down a big sum for material I've already seen as to hand over my few bucks for a Shiny New Issue. So, in short, foo. I guess on the bright side, it will now be freeeee, so those of you who weren't following it in print will be able to pick it up very easily.
*I should add that Phil Foglio is very good at what he does, so I figure the move to the web probably won't actually make him suddenly develop many of the faults you see in webcomics from people without all that experience. And Girl Genius has not in fact been doing the more complicated kinds of layout tricks he used in Buck Godot: Gallimaufry, like having one scene running along the bottoms of the pages while another goes on in the rest of the page, so it should adapt pretty directly to being read a page at a time. I'm still bummed by the devaluing of the single-issue format though.
In other news the Girl Genius print comic is apparently ending, to be replaced by a thrice-weekly webcomic. It seems the Foglios only ever regarded the individual comics as a sort of publicity vehicle for the collections, and they think the web will be cheaper/better/etc. I for one am very disappointed, as I *liked* the individual comics, the pacing, the buying of one and having all those new pages at once... Kaja made some comments in the yahoo!group about "trying to get Phil to stop laying things out for the short, temporary comic issues", which has "driven her crazy all along since it's only in comic form for a little while but is in a book forever." So apparently the move to continual one-page updates (which, hahahah, how long do you think *that* is going to last) pleases her because the structure will be able to be more freeform within the constraints of the graphic novel segments. I think that's a *bad* thing. I think, especially in an action-adventure comic, strong episodic structure encourages a clearer, easier-to-follow storyline, helps writers set a good pace (not spending forever dragging out some single event, but also not rushing through important scenes), and is just fun to read.* Also, in the web -> print model, I just don't find it all that *fun* to buy the print comic; I probably *will*, because I want to have Girl Genius around to reread, but it's just not nearly as exciting to plunk down a big sum for material I've already seen as to hand over my few bucks for a Shiny New Issue. So, in short, foo. I guess on the bright side, it will now be freeeee, so those of you who weren't following it in print will be able to pick it up very easily.
*I should add that Phil Foglio is very good at what he does, so I figure the move to the web probably won't actually make him suddenly develop many of the faults you see in webcomics from people without all that experience. And Girl Genius has not in fact been doing the more complicated kinds of layout tricks he used in Buck Godot: Gallimaufry, like having one scene running along the bottoms of the pages while another goes on in the rest of the page, so it should adapt pretty directly to being read a page at a time. I'm still bummed by the devaluing of the single-issue format though.
