Talk:9 Chickweed Lane

Style and Theme

In the article there is this piece of text that says "Even reviewers who dislike the comic for other reasons have applauded its design qualities" and actually that's not true because the layout is lazy and bad, seems like an oversight.

Should there not be any mentioning of the frequent breakage of the 4th wall? For instance when the cat pulled out the roll of toilet paper the paper curled itself around some of the parts separating the panels in the strip. Other times it is Edda who stretches out, gripping the same separators for support.

Secondly many of the strips are without text and many of these seem like worshipping of Edda. I wonder if the author, who shares many aspects with Amos, married someone who is thinly disguised as Edda. --12:06, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

This is a little late but since there's low traffic on the talk page, I'll continue. I don't think we need to mention breaking the fourth wall. There's a weird trend on WP where people feel the need to mention that, especially in articles about TV shows, but it's not new or unique, lots of media does that.

I've seen a few of these comics but not without words. They do have a good number of "beauty" drawings of the characters, but I thought the author was a woman, not an Amos-like man. Squidfryerchef (talk) 14:17, 28 August 2009 (UTC)

I don't know if that's true, but since this entire strip is now mostly about impossibly beautiful women lusting after sophisticated dorks, it's clear that this entire strip has devolved into the author's own self-gratification. Khmer stooge (talk) 19:21, 14 August 2020 (UTC)

The earlier poster is using "breaking the 4th wall" in an odd way. It doesn't mean when a character talks to the audience, as in a TV show, but rather, the walls between the panels being ignored, or actually breaking, or being used as actual objects in the comic strip.

It's an interesting artistic device, but it isn't unique to 9CW. Carlo (talk) 17:24, 28 August 2009 (UTC)

B-Class Assesment required

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comics.com

For quite a while the servers for 9 Chickweed Lane's main online venue, comics.com, have been slow and sluggish. As of September 6, they have completely disappeared, and their name can't even be resolved by DNS. This isn't yet something that should be reflected on this page, but at some point it probably should. -- Dan Griscom (talk) 12:30, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

As far as I can tell, all online newspapers that have 9CW use a live link, and every single one had no image of the comic yesterday (Sunday). In addition, for months, comics.com has frozen my computer by trying to run a script, and I have to stop the script. Carlo (talk) 12:48, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

comics.com has been working consistently for me for over a year. I propose this topic be closed unless someone reports consistent problems with comics.com. DWorley (talk) 15:31, 13 October 2010 (UTC)

Juliette Sibling?

Aug 9, 2010 comic has Gran say that she had a second child after Juliette. I find no reference to Juliette's half sibling on the WP page; is this character known?

With the help of a fan community searching the archives he has been identified as Roger. There are a handful of references to him, generally Juliette speaking of "Your uncle Roger". The general impression is that the family avoids him. I've added a brief note to his father's entry.Saxophobia (talk) 10:05, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

someone updated him, as November 22nd he made his first appearance? and he might be gay but hiding that even from himself, but did not add it, as it is not officially confirmed Verdad1963 (talk) 16:24, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

Spelling of Elliot's name

The article spells Elliot Greene's name with one T, but the strip of 2010-10-13 http://comics.com/9_chickweed_lane/2010-10-13/ gives it with two T's. DWorley (talk) 15:33, 13 October 2010 (UTC)

Should we add Fernanda to character's list?

as she is becoming now an important character Verdad1963 (talk) 16:26, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

Encyclopedic time

When writing about events in a work of fiction (even an on-going work of fiction), write as though the reader is reading in "encyclopedic time" - that is, some years from now. For example, don't use the word "recent" and always use the past tense, even to describe events taking place "that day" in the work of fiction.Tobeprecise (talk) 16:03, 26 December 2010 (UTC)

More details in regards to Martine..

There was a story arc that played out over Jan 2015, until sometime in February, or April which went into more details in regards to Martine. It covers her and Bill's story with some detail, and ends with the revelation that Martine was not just "mortally wounded," but rather shot/murdered by a soldier who was with Bill. He in turn had been shot in the back by the same soldier, with the bullet passing through him to strike and kill her. I propose adding the information from this story arc to the article, giving more details in regards to it.

Reference Errors

Just a minor note here, but the majority of the reference links which lead to various strips that supposedly explain the item which are being referenced (god that's a mouthful), point to incorrect strips. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.190.254.108 (talk) 06:24, 4 April 2015 (UTC)

Cancellation of 9 Chickweed Lane by the Los Angeles Times

In private discussions with the author of the strip, he told me that he has been advised that the LA Times' explanation for cancellation can be considered libelous in more than one way. As a result, I deleted the comment itself and links to other instances of it. The chips will fall where they will, but I think it best for Wikipedia to keep themselves out of the fray if things become legally contentious. ccdesan (talk) 21:46, 14 January 2022 (UTC)

• I agree that in articles like this it is important to take care. While this article isn't a biography of a living person, it is the ongoing major work of one and as such those principles apply here. However, the latest edit left the paragraph on this event without any citations at all, which is even more risky. As such I've rolled back some of the latest changes. I've also made sure that any statements are clearly attributed eg the Wikipedia article does not say that a strip used an ethnic slur, but only reports that the LA Times considered it an ethnic slur. HenryCrun15 (talk) 03:59, 16 January 2022 (UTC)

Criticisms

It would be nice to find some positive reviews, instead of that review by some nattering nabob of negativism. --←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 13:18, 7 July 2022 (UTC)