Actually, that is what you said here: http://www.goblinsforum.com/viewtopic.p ... 50#p183559SGTdude wrote:I have to respond here, basically because I am one of the most qualified individuals to do so.Morgaln wrote:I know this will be an unpopular opinion, but that is just lazy. A comic is a very visual medium. It's the embodiment of "show, don't tell".
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This also applies to what was brought up in another thread, that the time of day cannot be told from the images.comic.
First, no. That last statement is not what was said. I happen to know because you are in fact misquoting me and I heard the information from THunt firsthand. Most of the time of day can be reasonably guessed at from the events depicted in the comic. And those guesses are drawn directly from what was shared (whether images or words). It can not be known precisely because time, while helpful, is a minimal focus of this comic making that last statement an unfair criticism (and just not true). But if that kind of accuracy is what you want from your fiction go watch 24 (and even that show plays a little loose with time). Which leads me to point 2.
Second, the thing is the thing, and in Goblins the thing is essentially "yay the goblins win." We are all waiting to see that happen, and are very interested in how that happens. But we must reasonably allow for slight deviations (we could even say mistakes) on the path of making progress towards seeing that end reached. To demand otherwise is...well...intellectually dishonest.
But to show that I'm stating a fact and not just being rude, please take this challenge and prove me wrong:
Name a single work of fiction told in a visual medium that is generally regarded as successful and is completely without any sort of continuity errors or mistake.
Tl;dr - be a fan, not a fanatic.
RocketScientist wrote:So is Thunt telling us that we don't know whether it is day or night in any given scene, unless someone tells us?
You confirmed RocketScientist's assumption that day or night can only be determined by what characters say. That means images are completely irrelevant in that regard. If that is incorrect, then it is you who made the misquote.SGTdude wrote:Basically. It does seem confusing because it makes it harder to tell when things happen. But this, along with another thing he told me, might make easier to figure out what happens when. All will be made clear, i hope, when i restart the Unofficial Timeline.
Obviously, no successful comic line will be without continuity errors. Most of them number into the tens of thousands of pages, with numerous reboots and various authors who make up new stories all the time, not roughly 500 pages written by a single person, following a preconceived script. I'd also wager that, for example Order of the Stick (which has about double the pages of Goblins and hasn't been predetermined to its conclusion in advance) does sport less continuity errors than Goblins (although there are sure to be a few minor ones).
