Readthrough Poll

[elf]

Several people like the idea of a readthrough of the original series (available to read at the official EQ comics archive), and I'd thought "one per week," until blnchflr pointed out that that meant five months to get through them, which might be a long time to keep people's interest levels up. Especially given how much other EQ content there is.

I plan on starting a readthrough soon. I don't guarantee to follow the votes here exactly (I'll be balancing votes with comments, which might offer more compelling insight than straight numbers), but I don't want to pick a method that'll make everyone but me unhappy.

With "original series readthrough" as our first community activity--how would you like to do that? Quickly to get everyone caught up, or slowly to use each issue as a starting-point for discussions or fic? Point-by-point commentary on the issues, or an overview post that says "OQ, issue X, Title--go!"

Poll #1442 Readthrough Options

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 11

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Original Quest (issues 1-21) readthrough should be:

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1 issue per week
4 (40.0%)

2 issues per week
4 (40.0%)

1 issue every other day
1 (10.0%)

Mixed: post next issue prompt 24 or 48 hours after comments stop
4 (40.0%)

Some other pace, which I shall discuss in comments
0 (0.0%)

If not one of the above, how should the readthrough be paced?

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After the initial Original Quest, we should:

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Readthrough the rest of the sets, in some order to be established later
5 (62.5%)

Re-do the OQ readthrough at a different pace (faster or slower)
1 (12.5%)

Not do readthroughs, but post prompts regularly
1 (12.5%)

Start a fic and/or art fest
1 (12.5%)

More than one of the above, about which I shall comment
0 (0.0%)

Something else, about which I shall comment
0 (0.0%)

Comments

[dancing_serpent]

I like the general pacing of 1 issue per week with the option of moving forward when comments stop coming.

[elf]

I like that--and I also like the idea of much quicker, like every other day, to get entrenched in it enough to kick off more community activity.

Maybe "1 day after 2nd-to-last commenter" would be quick enough. That means a single straggler doesn't slow down the pacing.

[dancing_serpent]

Maybe with a little extra time bonus to compensate for different time zones? I remember being late to the party every time when I was still in QaF fandom and we did a marathon of "one episode per week".

[wembley]

Just wanted to voice that I really like the idea of reading through the post-OQ stories (Siege, Kings) and the spin-off series, because I feel like there's less discussion on the later series, especially the non-Wendy-drawn ones, and it'd be nice to see what people's takes on those would be. (Would fans hate New Blood as violently today? More violently? (Also, I actually LIKE a lot of the non-Wendy-drawn stuff, so it'd be nice to fangirl/discuss it with others for a change. :))

[elf]

I'd like a readthrough of the other series, not least because that's all new to me; I read and re-read OQ as a teen & later, and have only read the later series in the last couple of years. (I'd seen the random issue here & there, so I had some vague ideas about them, but that was all.)

Acme Acres needs fanfic. Lots of fanfic.
I don't like most of the non-Wendy artwork, but I can't tell if that's because I don't like it, or because it's just not Wendy, and I find it jarring.

And I haven't worked through the "new quests" series at all, although I have sorted out the different quests so I can read them.

[anke]

Me, too.

I like a lot of the later stories (The Rebels for instance is great fun to read).

[ex_moondancer561]

In connectino with my poll responses, I'd love to see a fic/art fest following each series, pertaining to that series.

[elf]

So would I, but I have no idea who'd run it.

Especially for the first series, which is going to end just before Yuletide stories get posted.

[dancing_serpent]

I could run the fest, I guess. Would poll about it before, though - should it be a gift exchange, should people leave prompts and everybody can pick - things like that.