OOTS 1128: Raising a Family

[hamishspence]

http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1128.html

Sigdi is even more awesome that I expected.

 

[Deset Gled]

I found this surprisingly choppy and hard to follow. Jumping from multiple (coinciding) story lines normally isn't a problem for me, but each different scene just looks like colored haze on a gray background. Stone walls combined with the magic flame in Roy's story, the "flashback" haze in Durkmom's story, whatever floaty stuff Durkon is trapped in, and Vampire Durkon's bubble are all extremely similar to me. Did anyone else have this problem?

 

[MarkB]

I found this surprisingly choppy and hard to follow. Jumping from multiple (coinciding) story lines normally isn't a problem for me, but each different scene just looks like colored haze on a gray background. Stone walls combined with the magic flame in Roy's story, the "flashback" haze in Durkmom's story, whatever floaty stuff Durkon is trapped in, and Vampire Durkon's bubble are all extremely similar to me. Did anyone else have this problem?

It was definitely jarring. I get that the intertwined concepts made the story resonate more, but they did need a better sense of separation.

 

[freyar]

I just hope he keeps up the pace --- I'm very curious to see how the OotS gets out of this and what Durkon's memory can do.

 

[MNblockhead]

No problem following it. It was jarring but that was an appropriate effect for flashbacks occurring during combat. I would think that is what it would be like for Durkon.

 

[Deuce Traveler]

I'm just not liking this subplot at all. I liked the idea of the OOTS mopping the floor with the vampires due to some solid planning and then maybe running into a bigger threat that might give them trouble and produce some tension. But the way dominate worked in this subplot just seemed heavy-handed and a means to set-up a deus ex machina.

The same for how vampire Durkon suddenly has trouble accessing a memory when he has had it pretty easy throughout the previous strips.