An Experiment: Parallel Reviews
Submitted by kjc on November 22, 2005 - 03:23
We're going to try a little experiment here... We're running two reviews (independently submitted, as it happens) of the same comic, Will Eisner's John Law by Gary Chaloner.
Compare. Contrast. Discuss.
Re: An Experiment: Parallel Reviews
by The_Sando - 11/22/2005 - 23:01
So, did this "experiment," start when two people some how thought they were doing the same story?
(Still, this is a cool thing. There should be more dueling reveiwers.)
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Re: An Experiment: Parallel Reviews
by kjc - 11/23/2005 - 01:46
So, did this "experiment," start when two people some how thought they were doing the same story?
Pretty much.
(Still, this is a cool thing. There should be more dueling reveiwers.)
Do you really think I should give reviewers swords? That sounds dangerous.
I was kind of hoping it'd lead to some discussion of what people like to see in reviews and what they hate...
Re: An Experiment: Parallel Reviews
by Xaviar Xerexes - 11/22/2005 - 15:22
A big difference is that Andrew does a great job of looking at Chaloner's treatment of John Law in the greater context of Will Eisner's work on the Spirit and other characters. I have only read a scattering of Eisner's work and so could look at Chaloner's John Law only in the context of what I read on my computer screen.
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Re: An Experiment: Parallel Reviews
by The_Sando - 11/26/2005 - 10:20
I like to see reveiwers with swords being used in reveiws.
But in seriousness, I found both the reveiws interesting and engaging, Xaviar Xerexes more so because of the deeper analysis. However, I found Gary Chaloner's reveiw to be more helpful at first as it had the broader and (slightly,) lighter tone. So, they were both good. I like hyperlinking used as in text referencing, it's definitly one of the best features about online essays. In non electronic essays I perfer the Horrocksian method, so I was also impressed by Xerexes use of images as well as hyperlinking.
So, yeah, maybe give the reveiwers pistols?
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