“Somewhere in here there’s a BIG time jump between volumes, which…I thought I’d just forgotten what the fuck was going on.
It happens a couple times in the series, and in some ways, I can dig it. We don’t need every excruciating detail.
In other ways, I’m not into it because if there’s something worth showing, I’d rather just see it as opposed to having it referred to, some character is all like, “I DON’T want to talk about it!” for a couple issues until I can finally find out what’s going on.
Sometimes it works, but sometimes it feels like a way to add intrigue to an event that’s not super intriguing: drop me in the middle and I have to figure out how I got there, which distracts me from events being less interesting.
I should try this on a date sometime. Tell the person I’m dating that they just got back from the restroom, and the date is in-progress, and something big just happened, but I don’t want to talk about it.
I guess that seems cruel. But memorable?”