Reactions To Trollbabe Comic

[Ron Edwards]

Hi Ralph,

Just coincidence, or parallelism, maybe. I always liked the image of Retta on a dragon-ship, so that expressed itself (1) in the text as an example bit of character generation, (2) as a topic for the cover (although the cover character isn't supposed to be Retta necessarily), and in the comic as a story setting.

Best,
Ron

[ethan_greer]

But certainly, someone can react to the thematic content of a STORY independent of the medium in which it is presented.  Can't they?

Well, yes.  But it won't be a reaction to the work as a whole.  It will be a reaction to the story, which, when separated from its presentation, is unavoidably altered.  For better or worse.  In the case of a comic strip/book story, it's usually for worse.

[Uncle Dark]

Thinking about critique #3:

What if Retta was posessed, and she killed everybody, and doesn't remember it 'cause she was posessed?  Hell, this could just be the intro to a longer story which revolves around Retta discovering that she's posessed and then struggling with the beastie.  Or not.

Lon

[Ron Edwards]

Hi Jesse,

"But certainly, someone can react to the thematic content of a STORY independent of the medium in which it is presented. Can't they?"

No, they can't. Medium plays a crucial role in processing stories.

If you verbally delivered a version of the comics story to some other people, then they experience that story in the medium of verbal transmission, sub-set J. Burneko. They did not in any way experience a (or "the") story independently of a medium.

Best,
Ron