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== Dealing with cliffhangers == | == Dealing with cliffhangers == | ||
Multi-issue comic stories are a [[serial]] | Multi-issue comic stories are a [[serial]] art form. [[Cliffhanger]]s are employed to keep the reader interested from one instalment to the next. Most cliffhangers work by ''misdirecting'' the reader. | ||
That's why taking early parts of a comic story at face value is often a very unwise idea, as comic writers delight in telling lies that will sell issues. You must be ''very'' careful. Think about most of the good televised cliffhangers. If this wiki had been going when ''[[The Caves of Androzani (TV story)|The Caves of Androzani]]'' premiered, we could potentially have written that the Fifth Doctor and Peri got shot by a firing squad — something that never actually happened. This sort of ''total'' misdirection happens at the conclusion of almost every instalment of modern comic stories. | |||
For this reason, it's probably best if you do not ascribe ''any'' certainty to ''anything'' contained in a comic ''cliffhanger'' until the story is completely published. | For this reason, it's probably best if you do not ascribe ''any'' certainty to ''anything'' contained in a comic ''cliffhanger'' until the story is completely published. | ||
