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Saxon Brenton

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From: "Saxon Brenton" <Saxon.Bren...@uts.edu.au>

Date: Thu, 8 May 2008 02:36:08 +0000 (UTC)

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Subject: Re: REVIEW: End of Month Reviews #52 - April 2008 [spoilers]

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On Weds 7/Apr/08 Lalo Martins Lalo Martins [lalo.mart...@gmail.com]
replied:

> Also spracht Saxon Brenton (Wed, 07 May 2008 05:15:48 +0000):
>> Nevertheless, I'm
>> sitting here worrying that the combination of an ensemble cast, plus
>> the late appearance of the Net.Trenchcoat Brigade, may make this look
>> like the equivalent of an Event comic from one of the mainstream
>> publishers.

> My understanding is that one (minor) goal Arthur and I have been
> shooting for is to poke fun at mainstream Event comics. (Arthur
> with BC and BM, me with 58.5 and my suggestions and contributions
> to BC/BM.) And one of the reasons I enjoyed BC#0 is that it was
> the apex of this minor goal; it was IMO so well done that now we
> don't need to do it so much anymore, I feel that "the fun has been
> poked" :-P And yet, it has done that without losing its
> effectiveness as part of the story.

Yes. And I really should have taken that angle into consideration
because it's not as though it shouldn't have been obvious to me.
In retrospect there are a few points of sloppy logic in EoMR52; I
think my brain is becomming frazzled if I sit uppast 1 am writing
stuff.

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Saxon Brenton

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