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<blockquote data-quote="overgeeked" data-source="post: 9331329" data-attributes="member: 86653">Just finished Mushoku Tensei #22. The author is mostly moving pieces around the chess board for the finale despite it being 3-4 books away. It’s nice that there’s some movement and action starting up again, even if it’s mostly set up at this point. Despite reading a lot of pulp stuff, I’m not a fan of cliffhanger endings. There’s been 2-3 in the last 3-4 books. I also want a complete story in one book even if it’s short. Most of the earlier books in the series were mostly self-contained despite being part of an on-going, building narrative. The last few have slipped more and more into pure serial fiction. At times it reminds me of the better comic book writing that wove A, B, and C stories in and out issue after issue. The A plot is resolved in this issue, but the B or C plot would become the A plot in the next issue…only for a new B or C plot to come in. Constantly shuffling plots and subplots. If the writer keeps evolving and refining his skills, I’ll definitely auto-buy whatever he does going forward.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="overgeeked, post: 9331329, member: 86653"] Just finished Mushoku Tensei #22. The author is mostly moving pieces around the chess board for the finale despite it being 3-4 books away. It’s nice that there’s some movement and action starting up again, even if it’s mostly set up at this point. Despite reading a lot of pulp stuff, I’m not a fan of cliffhanger endings. There’s been 2-3 in the last 3-4 books. I also want a complete story in one book even if it’s short. Most of the earlier books in the series were mostly self-contained despite being part of an on-going, building narrative. The last few have slipped more and more into pure serial fiction. At times it reminds me of the better comic book writing that wove A, B, and C stories in and out issue after issue. The A plot is resolved in this issue, but the B or C plot would become the A plot in the next issue…only for a new B or C plot to come in. Constantly shuffling plots and subplots. If the writer keeps evolving and refining his skills, I’ll definitely auto-buy whatever he does going forward. [/QUOTE]

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