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Post by omega on Jul 14, 2017 11:37:06 GMT
Its just annoying that you have to have read a book to know who the characters are and where it picks up And that this prerequisite is mentioned nowhere in the marketing. It feels like Titan mentioned the Big Finish stuff in the marketing to try draw in those Torchwood fans, but the range is a terrible jumping on point unless you have read Exodus Code. If you're going for cross-promotion then actually promote it. If you have read the novel and like the new characters, I guess you'll like the Titan comic range, but otherwise give it a miss. Having a main cast of five or six characters, all but two of which have only appeared in a single novel before, does poor things for the pacing of the plot. The four issue arcs don't help with the massive character list, and by the end of the second arc hardly anything has actually happened. I wish Titan had gone for the gap between Series 2 and Children of Earth. That's somewhere loose with continuity, only three core characters (four if you count Rhys) and is a set up familiar to almost anyone who knows Torchwood.
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Post by whiskeybrewer on Jul 14, 2017 11:41:29 GMT
Its just annoying that you have to have read a book to know who the characters are and where it picks up And that this prerequisite is mentioned nowhere in the marketing. It feels like Titan mentioned the Big Finish stuff in the marketing to try draw in those Torchwood fans, but the range is a terrible jumping on point unless you have read Exodus Code. If you're going for cross-promotion then actually promote it. If you have read the novel and like the new characters, I guess you'll like the Titan comic range, but otherwise give it a miss. Having a main cast of five or six characters, all but two of which have only appeared in a single novel before, does poor things for the pacing of the plot. The four issue arcs don't help with the massive character list, and by the end of the second arc hardly anything has actually happened. I wish Titan had gone for the gap between Series 2 and Children of Earth. That's somewhere loose with continuity, only three core characters (four if you count Rhys) and is a set up familiar to almost anyone who knows Torchwood. That would have actually worked a lot better. I got the comics not knowing this. So they are just gonna sit there until I get round to reading the book
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Post by Zagreus on Jul 15, 2017 1:41:44 GMT
Reading up on these, I kind of wonder if the Barrowmans weren't intending these to be more novels. It is kind of odd that Exodus Code was released by itself, instead in a set of three, like all other releases in the series.
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Post by omega on Jul 15, 2017 1:49:02 GMT
Reading up on these, I kind of wonder if the Barrowmans weren't intending these to be more novels. It is kind of odd that Exodus Code was released by itself, instead in a set of three, like all other releases in the series. I wonder if the Barrowmans' involvement stopped Titan from asking them to choose a setting within the Torchwood chronology that would have been better for readers. The pacing seems more like a novel as well. Normally I'd be happy just for new Torchwood, but we have the far superior audios which have a far more reliable and regular release schedule.
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Post by Zagreus on Jul 16, 2017 16:56:12 GMT
Speaking of, was just listening to Forgotten Lives again (again again). Do the comics address how Jack apparently escaped from The Evolved?
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Post by omega on Jul 16, 2017 20:21:24 GMT
Speaking of, was just listening to Forgotten Lives again (again again). Do the comics address how Jack apparently escaped from The Evolved? Short answer, nope. Long answer, rant about poor product and marketing campaign.
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Post by Zagreus on Jul 17, 2017 0:55:38 GMT
Having had an opportunity to flip through the first issue, I don't actually see anything to suggest it takes place in 2015/16/17. I'm tempted to take it at its word on the "previously on" page and state that it takes place after the events of Exodus Code... back in 2012.
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