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Forum Name: Bubblegum Crisis: The Iron Age
Topic ID: 25
Message ID: 39
#39, RE: Issue 2
Posted by RedOtakuKeith on Mar-16-06 at 06:13 PM
In response to message #36
A note on style:
To me, there's a noticably style difference in TIA than other EPU works. Its hard to put my finger on the exact term I want, but its seems more, well I don't want to say "in your face" because I'm not a marketing director for the G4 network, but its more... Hmmm. Agressive? Active? It'll bug me till I think of the right word, but the gist of it is that TIA comes off the page diffently then say, a SoS or Bacon Comics piece. Was this a conscious choice? Is it a result of the setting? Or am I reading too much into it? I'm liking it though.

Less 'domestic', perhaps? People in UF (outside of, say, the Exile stories or parts of Warriors of the Outer Rim) tend to live in comfortable, homey places, cook their own dinners, shovel the snow off the garden path, banter with their housemates, etc. In TIA, Gryphon and Zoner are 'in transit', as it were, and while the Knight Sabres presumably have places to go home to, I'd guess they pretty much just sleep there (or hack there all night long, in Nene's case). This adds to the 'cyberpunk' feel alluded to above by Gryphon (I tend to find parallels to Shadowrun, because it's my main experience of cyberpunk).