>>90396806>How is it different?Pacing and overall storytelling.
Chapters 1, 2, 3 have solid chapter construction to them. Like a good chapter should, they introduce, execute, and wrap up a discrete piece of the story. After that, however, the storytelling goes off the rails with the train chapter.
Look at the archive page:
http://www.paranatural.net/archive-250 pages each for three chapters, then a Chapter 4 that's bloated to be longer than the rest of the comic before it, in which we'd see awful storytelling like flashbacks within sidecuts and over-dramatic deaths for characters introduced only pages before. It also began the cast bloating, which Zack himself acknowledged a few weeks ago with that student council joke.
Chapter 5 is even worse. Remember when the kids were looking for a spirit called Hijack? I don't. Instead, we've had hitball, the school store, introducing the new tool spirit, the lesbian coffee date, and god knows what else I can't even remember. Each of these should have their own focus instead of this nightmare of scene shuffling and piling on more and more characters and story threads.
It honestly exhausting to follow and it's obvious the art has suffered due to Zack's inability to manage the comic well - just look at how backgrounds have all but disappeared.
