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QUACKCAST 502 - Definitive character moments!
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Oct. 27, 2020
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Ozoneocean at 1:13AM, Oct. 28, 2020
Structure in contrast to comic story?
PaulEberhardt at 11:16PM, Oct. 27, 2020
Since I only have episodes from a single panel to one or two large pages I could probably locate these character moments very precisely if I take some time. One or two candidates come to my mind right now, and with me it's always more or less in the panel with the punchline or close to it. That's possibly because of the structure in contrast to that of a story comic (although I've known graphic-novel-like webcomics where each update revolves around some main gag as well - could be an interesting topic on its own).
cdmalcolm1 at 3:41PM, Oct. 27, 2020
I never thought about it. Would that be an arc or something else? If I have to choose a point it would be when she first reviled herself to the world. As a sin she always stayed in the shadows of men and women making them addicted to their vices. Knowing her. She got bored of staying in the shadows. Once that happens, she shows herself and just went on a rampage while feeding off the vices of human kind. Once she loses her memories, she has to start anew in another universe. This version of her is a much nicer person. Her peek in this version would have to be when she fights her alternate version of herself. They both push each other to the limit where both of them blew each other away. When that happened, it created a worldwide threatening tsunami. Other superheroes from around the world, had to scramble to stop these massive waves from hitting shores. These are points so far that she is at her best.