PTC 11-07-19 I should rescue him

[cheshire86]

So, while I made a funny about Zadie and Aaron being little goofballs over Lita the other day, I'm not fully getting the rage over them. I've been around people their age who were *worse*... hell, I myself was pretty insufferable and all-but-lacking in the gaydar department at that age, so I'm not seeing them being particularly beyond the pale in that regard. They're comically oblivious and such... maybe because it's a humor comic? That's my take, YMMV of course, but damn... maybe dial the hyperbolic haterade down a smidge?

[SailorDh]

Go back thru the forum. Menage a 3 used to have huge threads on each strip.
This nonsense is lucky to make it to 3 pages.

Giz do everyone a favor, have this all be a bad nightmare.
Have Jung wake up screaming and reboot this without the douchecanoe.

[vampire hunter D]

The threads are short because people were driven off by the constant negativity. By people who only read comics looking for something to bitch about

Seriously, you people would have similar complaints to the Watchmen or the Killing Joke if they came out one psge every few days on a pixie trix site

[Fluffy]

People could have just as easily left because they grew frustrated with the comic(s). Insinuating it's only because of the 'negativity' taking place within the forums is a rather presumptuous statement to make.

[Valkog]

By people who only read comics looking for something to bitch about

Those people don't exist. You're making them up. If you can name one example, I'll be surprised.

[Fluffy]

By people who only read comics looking for something to bitch about

Those people don't exist. You're making them up. If you can name one example, I'll be surprised.

Silly Valkog - they mean anyone who isn't 100% in favor of the direction the comic/the characters are being taken in. Don't you know if you criticize something, you're a hater who just bitches for the sake of bitching?

[Valkog]

By people who only read comics looking for something to bitch about

Those people don't exist. You're making them up. If you can name one example, I'll be surprised.

Silly Valkog - they mean anyone who isn't 100% in favor of the direction the comic/the characters are being taken in. Don't you know if you criticize something, you're a hater who just bitches for the sake of bitching?

Remember when Dangerously Chloe ended and we were free from this exact same squabble for a few months? I wonder if there's some common thread in the two comics that might be bringing it back.

[SlightlyMostly]

I find the comic enjoyable, and can attribute Zadie & Aaron's sustained obliviousness just to rules of comedy. We're only about 27 pages in and still in only the third scene as far as I can tell (scenes: introduction of Zadie and re-introduction of Aaron, their smoothie date, the next day with introduction of Felix and re-introduction of Julian), and all those have been happening over only two days of in-comic time, so it's no wonder that we haven't had significant changes in character yet.

[RaeSloane]

I'm beginning to fear that this comic is going to end up the way of QUILTBAG, which I will always admire the creators for stopping once they realized they'd irreparably jumped the shark. It was sad, because the premise was interesting, and I actually liked Sara a lot from P&A and was eager to see her shine on her own. But it started off a mess and again, kudos to the creators for realizing that after a point, they'd missed the mark and needed to shutter it.

PTC hasn't quite reached that point, but it's getting close. There's no "there" there, yet. Just a bunch of thoroughly unpleasant main characters. Aaron is annoying without any substance. He's just the avatar of every douchey comicbook bro ever. Zadie is a flake. Ramona is cool, and Jung ... well is Jung.

I understand the desire to get away from the main MA3verse. I truly disliked the final pairings there, so a breather from those characters worked for me. But I think that a story about making comics should have taken place at Gary's workplace. Possibly explain Gary's absence by the idea that Sandra was able to set him up with his own studio via his connections. Yvan was a creep but he was funny, and he seemed to know his stuff about the comics biz. Stacy was an interesting and dynamic character before the authors decided to dumb her down and elevate Peggy to sainthood so that it would make more sense that Gary would choose her. Why not explore the inner workings of that place? Felix said he does freelance there, so he'd be in. Maybe have Julian working graphic design. Ramona could be a friend with an original character and pop in every now and again to market one of the titles coming from that shop. Lose Zadie, Aaron and the 70s-era Three's Company-like hijinks. They're boring and they don't work in this day and age.

This title is not so old that they can't make a fresh start. I know it's new, but there was action in the first pages of P&A, MA3, hell even DC, which I grew to loathe, had some really compelling action in its infancy.

[bridgetvoid]

I'm beginning to fear that this comic is going to end up the way of QUILTBAG, which I will always admire the creators for stopping once they realized they'd irreparably jumped the shark. It was sad, because the premise was interesting, and I actually liked Sara a lot from P&A and was eager to see her shine on her own. But it started off a mess and again, kudos to the creators for realizing that after a point, they'd missed the mark and needed to shutter it.

i was so hyped for QUILTBAG, it was such a neat premise and while it had a slightly slow start, it was getting really good in some aspects. i would rather see it be resurrected vs this.

i don't expect characters to be perfect, but they're all one note and it's just depressing to get this after all the super rushed endings for every other comic in this universe

[SlightlyMostly]

I don't really find Ramona, Jung, or Julian one-note especially considering their past appearances. Felix also seems nuanced. Aaron and Zadie have been a little more one-sided so far but I expect it's easy to add more sides to them once we get a few more scene changes.