Comic Club: D11Y3.3 The Sapling: Branches

Strange Loops
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Hungry Thirsty Roots
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My biggest problem with this story is that I don’t really care for the big overarching plot. The Silent is kind of a good villain, but I find it hard to engage with them in this, making the whole book kind of meh.

My thoughts on Eleventh’s third year are that it was an improvement over year two, but it felt like they could have done more. I feel like Alice was kind of wasted in these last two years. She was such an interesting character in the beginning, but that got lost in stories that were too big for their own good.

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The Scream’s design is already pretty dumb, and tryig to make a live action version of it makes it even worse

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that is ■■■■■■■ terrifying, what is that :sob::sob:

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A silent who’s so good at being a silent that the other silents forgot them… so they’ve started calling themself The Scream, carved ‘SCREAM’ into their forehead, and wear a white suit (which this cover just didn’t include for some reason)

I’ll get the comic art, one sec

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Ummm… hmmm… okay. I think I feel bad about this. The Silence scare me enough without this on top :sob:

(one day I’ll actually get around to the comics properly!)

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Strange Loops is… kinda fine

I wish I had more to say about these, but 11Y3 all has the same problems, in that there’s a really cool idea (here Orphan), but it’s not at all given the time it needs to develop, and because it doesn’t have that time, it all just feels so rushed

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What sre you referring to? Is Tian terrifying? Or that white comic cover? Looks a bit like Scherzo to me!

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Wow, okay, reusing art with no or minimal changes can be fair sometimes depending on the context, but uh, that third panel is literally just the first again but zoomed in…

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And Eleven year three ends the same it’s been going all this time, with a great concept that’s not given the time it needs, and with some unfortunately less than stellar art

The defeat of The Scream is really fun, and there’s some brilliant visuals in here but mostly, eh

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I’m just starting to think that I don’t like comics as a medium because they just always feel so rushed in comparison to other ones and although you can argue that sure, visually, they can go further than TV shows. Comics like this sometimes make me wonder if that’s all they can possibly do? Maybe I’m just miserable though. Who knows.

The Scream is a bit daft but I actually did like the Orphan by comparison for what we got and although I can maybe understand not wanting to explore too much of the Orphan due to it being dangerously close to just being a rip-off of the Moment, it would have been fun to explore it more.

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