Originally Posted by
TinkerSpider
I’ll give you the Robbie and gang war stuff
But the rest is the stupid version of mystery box. The characters fully know well what happened and why they are in the situations they are in. It’s not suspenseful to them. The only ones in the dark are the readers.
It’s dishonest storytelling, IMO. It’s wholly manufactured artificial tension because the actual story doesn’t have much. It’s the sign of a creative team who aren’t confident that the story they want to tell is strong enough to stand on its own without dangling “oh noes what happened?!??!” in front of the reader to get them to buy the next issue.