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verbicideCouple of things.
Vol 3, Issue 35 --was Francie's arm broken before Tip went to pick her up?
I know Katchoo was falling apart, but she'd apparently pulled it together for the meeting with Sal. So why did Tambi drag Francie out there at that point? From what she was about to say to Tambi, she was willing to go through with the takeover as long as Francie's safety was secured.
Vol 3 Issue 36 --Why did that weird guy leave the cell phone for Tambi to trace? And good lord how stupid was he. "Aha! I know all about your secret plot! Hah!" Die, loser.
Vol 3 Issue 37 --As bad as I felt for Brad here, David's desperate pee-dance is the funniest freaking thing ever. And the penguins, too. Bwahaha!
Also, as much as I can understand Katchoo sleeping with him that night, it just kills me. Poor David.
So part of my motivation for this particular re-read, outside of killing time between issues, was to see if I could find where the story got lost, for me. At some point, it seems like Terry Moore started this insane recycling trend. Not just Francie and Katchoo get close. Francie freaks. Katchoo breaks furniture. Francie bolts. Francie returns. But recycle in a much larger scope. Where we think they're going to be apart forever, but they're not. And I think I've found it tonight.
Vol 3, Issue 38.
At the end, Francie calmly, soberly tells Katchoo that she wants children. That she's running out of time. I feel that should have been the end of that whole arc. That should have been the beginning of the 10 year rift. Not the whole weird pregnancy induced 'what if' hallucinations. The miscarriage we were thinking should have been Ashley (and finding the math wrong). None of that should have happened.
Sarah and I have speculated ad nauseum on what caused the final rift. And we would talk about these huge unforgivable mistakes that one or the other might make. And when the final FINAL end came. We agreed it did make much more sense for it to be a quiet thing. A request. Francie saying she just couldn't take it. That if it had been a huge argument, they would have sought to mend the rift.
Which is all the more why I feel that the Great Rift should have happened a lot earlier. Like Issue 38. There are plenty of other stories to be told in the SIP world. I was really losing hope for a while, hope which was restored by issue ...58, I think. When Becky shoots Vicky with the high powered rifle-thing, from across like 5 buildings) I'm excited as all fuck to read the David arc. Which, I don' t know when the hell it's going to be released, since it clearly wasn't Nov 26 as indicated on the website forum. Ah, just checked. It's coming out this Wednesday, December 3rd. Also need to pick up the new Source Book. Finally.
Hoping that SIP is going to move on and regain some of it's awe inspiring momentum, the kind that captured me as an avid reader for so very long.
Vol 3, Issue 35 --was Francie's arm broken before Tip went to pick her up?
I know Katchoo was falling apart, but she'd apparently pulled it together for the meeting with Sal. So why did Tambi drag Francie out there at that point? From what she was about to say to Tambi, she was willing to go through with the takeover as long as Francie's safety was secured.
Vol 3 Issue 36 --Why did that weird guy leave the cell phone for Tambi to trace? And good lord how stupid was he. "Aha! I know all about your secret plot! Hah!" Die, loser.
Vol 3 Issue 37 --As bad as I felt for Brad here, David's desperate pee-dance is the funniest freaking thing ever. And the penguins, too. Bwahaha!
Also, as much as I can understand Katchoo sleeping with him that night, it just kills me. Poor David.
So part of my motivation for this particular re-read, outside of killing time between issues, was to see if I could find where the story got lost, for me. At some point, it seems like Terry Moore started this insane recycling trend. Not just Francie and Katchoo get close. Francie freaks. Katchoo breaks furniture. Francie bolts. Francie returns. But recycle in a much larger scope. Where we think they're going to be apart forever, but they're not. And I think I've found it tonight.
Vol 3, Issue 38.
At the end, Francie calmly, soberly tells Katchoo that she wants children. That she's running out of time. I feel that should have been the end of that whole arc. That should have been the beginning of the 10 year rift. Not the whole weird pregnancy induced 'what if' hallucinations. The miscarriage we were thinking should have been Ashley (and finding the math wrong). None of that should have happened.
Sarah and I have speculated ad nauseum on what caused the final rift. And we would talk about these huge unforgivable mistakes that one or the other might make. And when the final FINAL end came. We agreed it did make much more sense for it to be a quiet thing. A request. Francie saying she just couldn't take it. That if it had been a huge argument, they would have sought to mend the rift.
Which is all the more why I feel that the Great Rift should have happened a lot earlier. Like Issue 38. There are plenty of other stories to be told in the SIP world. I was really losing hope for a while, hope which was restored by issue ...58, I think. When Becky shoots Vicky with the high powered rifle-thing, from across like 5 buildings) I'm excited as all fuck to read the David arc. Which, I don' t know when the hell it's going to be released, since it clearly wasn't Nov 26 as indicated on the website forum. Ah, just checked. It's coming out this Wednesday, December 3rd. Also need to pick up the new Source Book. Finally.
Hoping that SIP is going to move on and regain some of it's awe inspiring momentum, the kind that captured me as an avid reader for so very long.
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Date: 2003-12-02 07:20 am (UTC)One could argue that he needed time to introduce the whole Sara Bryan angle, I suppose, but he sure didn't need 20 issues for it, so blah.
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