Quote from: broodblik on Today at 10:05:23 AMFor me the big difference is that in the one the focus is on the horror whereas the other's focus was mostly on horrible characters. Also it did not help the strip in Devil's that I literally did not care for any of the charactersYeah that's fair - Palamon was a hot-tempered idiot, and a killer. Constance was there to be put in jeopardy and was rather underwritten.
Quote from: Link Prime on 28 March, 2024, 11:09:26 AMActually looks like your work PJ.
Quote from: Le Fink on Today at 09:53:34 AMOne thing that strikes me is that the recent Milligan and Dayglo strip Devil's Railroad got a fair bit of opprobrium. Both strips have evil bullies doing ghastly things to vulnerable people, and the bullies win. But this strip is getting much more of a pass.
Is it mainly the cartoony vs realistic art that is making the difference?
Quote from: Funt Solo on Today at 03:32:43 AMI want to reread the entire series to get a bit more of a handle on Yvonne's fate. I think she's just a victim of the terror of the woods. Callum's death is far more complicated, and ties into the inescapable trauma and guilt he feels over the murder of his father.Good points. Theres that spectral image of his father. Callum is tripping balls at this point though.
Quote from: Funt Solo on Today at 03:32:43 AMHaving the villagers murder him for being gay would not have been a story that I would've been comfortable reading (all things being equal), and so his fate had to be some form of happenstance, or self-inflicted.Yes, I mean totally agree it would have been ghastly. I note though we've already had some abhorrent scenes of gay-bashing and consequent victim shaming. There's a line of regression to a homophobic lynching. It appeared that was the intent of the villagers. There was plenty of foreshadowing of hangings. So - much - foreshadowing! I was expecting the villagers and monstrous director to string them both up. A fittingly vile ending for such a nasty strip.
Quote from: Funt Solo on Today at 03:32:43 AMStill, as I said upthread, all very dark. (That rather being the point.) Are there any creator interviews on this one? I'd be fascinated.Me too. I didn't like this strip but it still has much to admire and certainly grabbed my attention.
Quote from: Le Fink on 28 March, 2024, 08:26:58 PMThistlebone ends and it feels a bit pointless. Our two protagonists have been run through one hell of a mill and end up sort of killing each other? Erm, what? The villagers can't even do their evil worst, which I thought was rather the point.