Redcloak's failed characterization, and what it means for the comic as a whole.

[B. Dandelion]

I disagree that a writer changing horses in mid-stream necessarily results in a flawed work, whether or not Rich did so in any particular case. Sometimes the best path to follow doesn't reveal itself until you're deep into the story.

The Giant's said he mostly sticks to the formula he worked out way back when he first started seriously plotting out the story, at least as far as the major plot points go.

A lot of people leapt to the conclusion that he killed off Kubota for getting sick of the related plotline, but in the commentary he says it was meant for to be as shocking as possible, as part of the setup for Vaarsuvius' decent into darkness -- which he couldn't complain about, since it meant he had indeed succeeded in catching people off guard, he just did it so thoroughly people assumed he outright changed his mind.