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Flipside Discussion / Re: Intermission 30: Special Voting Thread!
« on: February 22, 2015, 12:48:54 am »
Although I've already voted, I wanted to add a thought on the whole cliffhanger thing. Cliffhangers work very well in certain formats. For example, in a book, one chapter ending in a cliffhanger that may not be resolved for another couple chapters or in a tv show where the cliffhanger is resolved in the next episode. However, leaving people hanging in a web comic format, when you're covering an entirely different chapter ends up killing the tension built up by the cliffhanger. That's the whole point of the device, after all, to build tension. Were this all already published and one could read through the whole next chapter before then being able to read the next Bern chapter, the tension would still be fresh, but because these are updated one page at a time, you can't actually hold the tension for an entire different chapter.