Lusk22

no thanks I’ll stick to rude comments it’s all I’m good at

This is a seriously unedited mess. I’m also not sure what your point is supposed to be except “stop calling us childish for reading comics anybody can read comics okay!!” Comes off as very poorly conceived and argumented.

Also the word you’re looking for is “condescending” not detrimental” -> ie, how I’m acting right now in this comment.

The stigma properly comes from the pretension of the literary community looking down their snobby noses for it having pictures. Also I don’t think the stigma is necessarily about “childishness” (depending on WHAT comic you;re reading), but more about literary merit. Comics are generally viewed as being at the bottom of the cesspit as far as literary merit is concerned, and it can be difficult to convince people that graphic novels have literary merit too (but thanks to serious, influential works such as Neil Gaiman’s “Sandman”, graphic novels have gotten their foot in the literary door).

Also there is a verbal slight-of-hand that people use to denote their feelings on certain comics. Comics like batman, or spiderman, and other superhero stuff, people will just call graphic novels instead to try and have them be perceived more seriously.

Also the history of comics (even in the name: “comic”) comes from a place of pleasure (making people laugh), rather than serious subject matter. Comedy being taken as an artform as a very recent thing. There’s still a lot of left over condescension towards it though.

These points and a whole lot more should have been mentioned in your article. And an actual clear and coherent argument AGAINST the modern stigma against comics.

It’s all about that beginning momentum, especially with marketing. Like you said, if an essential feature, like battery life, is reported as lackluster, it will absolutely trample any of their marketing attempts. But if they have the essential features, I think Nintendo might actually pull it off marketing-wise this time. In the past year their efforts in that department have seen an upward trend.
I mean, just look at that reveal trailer for the switch. The tone of it, it’s far surpassing in general appeal than anything they put out for the wiiu.

Great article!

Great article.
I think the literary aficionado’s understanding of genre fiction is as equally misconceived and erroneous as the mainstream’s disdain for “Literary fiction.” Both perceive the others as wrong in a way. Lit Fic is snobby and pointless, Genre Fic is mundane and pointless.

I think some of these viewpoints can be attributed to the bitterness arising from the opposite party insulting their fiction of choice, continuing a vicious cycle.
Some of the most well-known and reknowned was produced as a marriage of both, fostering qualities of genre-wide appeal and literary intellectual-ness.

Some writing programs have certainly gone in the write (heh) direction by taking a step back in commanding what should be written, and instead focusing on helping the students elevate the type of work they wish to create. Other programs need to follow suit!

I’m not sure if Parallel necessarily demands that the universe be similar though fundamentally different from the Prime Universe. A parallel, definitively speaking, is simply something that runs beside and never intersects, it does not comment on the quality of each of the two things running in parallel. For example:
PPPPPPPPPP
LLLLLLLLLL
Those rows of P’s and L’s are running parallel to each other but bear no relation to each other apart from direction and the fact both rows consist of symbols from the alphabet. To convert the conceptual relation to spacial: two parallels don’t even need to be CLOSE to each other, they can be miles apart, but so long as they are consistent in direction and never intersect, they are parallel.
In terms of events happening in the two different universes, what actually takes place within them does not matter to whether it’s parallel or not, the fact that the events contained in each universe are held in their own timeLINES running parallel to each other is what makes it parallel.

So that being said, would a parallel universe necessarily need to be similar to the Prime? Would a parallel universe have to have a world war 2, whether it’s fought by dragons or whether it takes place in a different century?
By definition of ‘Parallel’, I don’t think so.
But I guess Parallel being appropriated into the more specific term, ‘Parallel Universe’, maybe? In that case, though, what word is given to a reality that never intersects with the Prime but also holds little to no similarities?