Comments on: The Webcomic Overlook #70: Anders Loves Maria

By: Josh

Josh — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:40:33 +0000

I got sucked in yesterday and read the comic from beginning to end. I think it’s a lot better that way. If I was reading it every day/every other day, waiting for a new one to be posted, etc., I’m sure I would’ve lost interest, but I really enjoyed the story reading it all the way through.

By: El Santo

El Santo — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:19:47 +0000

I haven’t read it much since reviewing it, but the spoilers have been trickling in. Knowing where the comic was headed, and not being a fan of the latter-day ALV, I’d probably be right up there with you on the disappointment scale.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 02:23:25 +0000

I so glad it’s over. I’m pretty sure that if she hadn’t taken so long to end it , I might of like it more. But because she took 6 months to end the story I was very disappointed, and plus I feel like i was strung along, I really believed it would have a complete ending but it fell so damn short of what I was expecting.

By: Metal Queen

Metal Queen — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:51:58 +0000

What’s so funny about this review and the description of it as “ineffably Swedish” is that it is the creation of a Canadian who moved to Sweden. I don’t know if her Swedish accent is real or fake, but I do know it’s very new. What the reviewer sees as an ability to “play with the medium” is actually inconsistency from an artistic standpoint. The Emperor’s new clothes come from Ikea.

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Digital Strips: The Webcomics Podcast — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 13:12:38 +0000

[...] to be a good citizen and contribute some updates to Comixpedia. He also has new reviews up of Anders Loves Maria and Nedroid’s Picture Diary, as well as an interesting interview with T Campbell, writer of [...]

By: El Santo

El Santo — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 03:30:57 +0000

I’m almost certain Anders mentioned them being in an open relationship at least once. And doesn’t Maria reinforce that when she said she would’ve been OK with Anders sleeping with anyone if it wasn’t with Tina? I dunno, I might be wrong.

By: Irrevenant

Irrevenant — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 20:00:17 +0000

The “repetitiveness” is kind of the point – Anders is on a downward spiral, and it’s not likely it’ll end well.

P.S. What makes you think they were (oficially) in an open relationship?

P.P.S. Bengo, it’s not odd that French is a smaller language than English. As a result of its history, English is a fusion of anglo-frisian (“original english”), saxon (germanic), Latin and Norman (French). This complexity is in no small part what makes it such a great language for poets and such a difficult language to learn.

By: Quijotesca

Quijotesca — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 01:08:35 +0000

I was recently trying to figure out what I liked about this comic and I don’t know anymore. I guess the good news is that it’s actually going to end soon. I hardly hate this comic, but its almost soap operatic nature kind of makes it hard for me to keep track of all the characters.

By: El Santo

El Santo — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:33:17 +0000

As for the comic under discussion, who does Maria love? That’s what always puts me off: a whiff of narcissism. Perhaps that is unfair, but it’s a barrier.

You know… that’s a really valid question. One that hadn’t occurred to me until you commented on it.

I wondering if Rene titled the comic “Anders Loves Maria” intentionally. The only reason she ever goes back to Anders is because he makes her feel guilty about the baby. But does she love him? There’s very little evidence she does, and there’s a whole lot of evidence that she’d be much happier if she ended up with Anders’ rival, Bjorn.

Also, I think Europe, in general, is not really a barrier communication-wise. I’ve only been to Germany, mind you, but I managed to communicate rather well not knowing a lick of German. Of course, we could both be living in a bubble. Maybe everyone I encountered in Germany knew English because I was in a touristy spot, and that would be sort of a job requirement. And maybe the cartoonists you speak to know English because the ones who only speak Polish wouldn’t since they’d have difficulty with communication.

By: Bengo

Bengo — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 23:37:25 +0000

I’ve been reaching out to cartoonists in countries where our readership is high, like Poland and Norway, to discuss translation swaps. Lo, they all speak English!

The odd thing about French is it’s a smaller language than English: much less vocabulary, for example. This explains why it’s so darn hard to express yourself in French!

As for the comic under discussion, who does Maria love? That’s what always puts me off: a whiff of narcissism. Perhaps that is unfair, but it’s a barrier.

Bloody love. Always an ending, never a story.