Comments on: Save Our Erin (Winters)

By: The Webcomic Overlook #116: Bad Machinery « The Webcomic Overlook

The Webcomic Overlook #116: Bad Machinery « The Webcomic Overlook — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 08:02:36 +0000

[...] characters, I can only hope that Erin here is Erin Winters, back from the depths of hell, and my “Save our Erin” campaign was a resounding [...]

By: Unsurprising news of the day: the end of Scary Go Round « The Webcomic Overlook

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:10:01 +0000

[...] And give a decent resolution to Erin Winters already, John Allison! If you’ve thought I’ve forgotten, I can assure you that I have not! [...]

By: El Santo

El Santo — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:12:03 +0000

Nicolas: I don’t mean to suggest she hated writing, she just grew to hate her Hercule Poirot character. She still wrote a lot of other mysteries featuring characters she loved (like Miss Marple) and stand-alone classics (Ten Little Indians).

However, she kept writing stories about Hercule primarily because she knew her fans loved him. (Or, as Wikipedia puts more succinctly, “She saw herself as an entertainer whose job was to produce what the public liked, and what the public liked was Poirot.”) She reached some sort of work around; Hercule became more and more of a background character in his own stories while the other characters gained more prominence.

Frankly, I don’t know why she hated poor Hercule. He was like an early version of Dr. House.

By: Nicolas Papaconstantinou

Nicolas Papaconstantinou — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 08:41:20 +0000

Well, that’s a bit depressing… I loved Erin, but you didn’t sell me on petitioning Allison by informing me that a similar movement forced Agatha Christie into doing something that she hated UNTIL SHE DIED!

At the very least, I now feel retroactively sorry for Christie. Dammit.