tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28103455.post967813996980157080..comments2024-03-09T05:53:59.542-05:00Comments on Oz and Ends: Shifts in Shifting Point of ViewUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28103455.post-72777364675124420102011-03-31T15:43:00.021-05:002011-03-31T15:43:00.021-05:00Indeed! :) And taking over from fellow comic scrib...Indeed! :) And taking over from fellow comic scribe <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Lobdell#Bibliography" rel="nofollow">Scott Lobdell</a>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28103455.post-21958526928566559492011-03-31T13:50:09.423-05:002011-03-31T13:50:09.423-05:00So that’s what Gerry Conway’s been working on, huh...So that’s what <a href="http://ozandends.blogspot.com/search/label/AUTHOR%20Gerry%20Conway" rel="nofollow">Gerry Conway</a>’s been working on, huh?J. L. Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405157000473731801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28103455.post-36407935513686575252011-03-31T13:07:37.849-05:002011-03-31T13:07:37.849-05:00I believe one of the main intents behind the curre...I believe one of the main intents behind the current Hardy Boys series (novels and graphic novles) is to highlight an actual difference between the two, who up until then could basically be viewed as a two-headed, eight-limbed, adventuring teenage... entity (Even their parents are aware that they tend to thing of them as "The Hardy Boys", not "Frank and Joe" at some level. <br /><br />Frank is now the more thoughtful one, the planner. Joe is the more impulsive, risk-taking one. Judging by the current GN covers, they seem to be working on developing an actual (doubtless temporary) <a href="http://www.papercutz.com/hb/hb_case2.html" rel="nofollow">conflict between them</a>.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28103455.post-46446873018912495722011-03-30T20:58:47.316-05:002011-03-30T20:58:47.316-05:00The Hardy Boys Undercover Brothers series indeed u...The <i>Hardy Boys Undercover Brothers</i> series indeed uses first-person narration, alternating between Frank and Joe. According to <a href="http://hardyboys.wikia.com/wiki/The_Hardy_Boys_Undercover_Brothers" rel="nofollow">this wiki page</a>, each chapter heading includes the name of its narrator just so’s we don’t get confused. That’s more elaborate than the original books, of course, but less free-form than the sort of shift this posting described. <br /><br />Remembering the old Hardy Boys books that I read as a boy, I’d have a hard time distinguishing Frank’s narrative voice from Joe’s. Maybe Joe would sound a little blonder. But the same wiki page says that in these books they make fun of each other and disagree, which I don’t recall them doing in the original and blue-spine books.J. L. Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405157000473731801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28103455.post-384238900544385172011-03-30T18:57:51.161-05:002011-03-30T18:57:51.161-05:00I believe the current version of the Hardy Boys al...I believe the current version of the Hardy Boys alternate between Frank and Joe as first person narrators on a chapter by chapter basis.<br /><br />Back in the late 90's the "Animorphs" series had a rotating narrator appraoch, with each of the five (six?) main characters taking turns to narrate a novel from their own viewpoint.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28103455.post-57283450524881451802011-03-30T14:27:14.042-05:002011-03-30T14:27:14.042-05:00Great post! I wrote my first story from a close 3r...Great post! I wrote my first story from a close 3rd person POV, but the 2nd is from 2 characters' POV so I've been wondering about what is acceptable. Great to see the variety.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12093495142545698084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28103455.post-78472303632509937922011-03-30T13:15:46.325-05:002011-03-30T13:15:46.325-05:00I think the most important step is to establish th...I think the most important step is to establish the pattern you’ll use in the first chapter so that readers will be ready for any shifts later. <br /><br />The <i>Tell-All Club</i> changes narrative strategies from part one to part two, and although the author provided some indications of that change it still felt jumpy.J. L. Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405157000473731801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28103455.post-88195818091754144852011-03-30T12:39:29.929-05:002011-03-30T12:39:29.929-05:00Thanks for the article. I am struggling with this...Thanks for the article. I am struggling with this issue myself right now, I have a novel with 4 main characters and shifted the point of view without thinking about it. I am now working on making it consistent. Nice to see I am not alone!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04989197620565202133noreply@blogger.com