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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 3507055" data-attributes="member: 4937">Have you ever heard of 'rising action'?  Having a big let down before the climax doesn't make the climax that more climatic.  Elan could tell you that the proper narrative structure for this sort of thing would be to have a big tense believable showdown, and then after you think for sure its over, then it just gets bigger.  You are supposed to follow up each climax with an even bigger climax, not follow up something anti-climatic with something climatic.  And the reasoning behind that is simple.  Despite the coolness of what Rich is doing, you can easily see that Rich has still lost alot of his audiences interest and excitement.  People like me are no longer looking forward to the next panel because the last panel was a let down.  He's blown the readers trust, and now he has to reacquire it.  For some readers that will be easier than others, for some it was enough just to see that it really didn't end there, but for others (say me) it will probably take me several strips to get reemersed in the excitement of it.  And I doubt that I'm alone in that.And it would have packed alot more punch if well, Rich had spent more time building up that 'hope' that Xykon so loves dashing.  Saying that the last strip makes the next strip better is like saying an appetizer to be 'meh' or a wine being sour makes a good entree seem that much better.  No, it degrades the whole presentation of the meal.</blockquote>

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