Quote Originally Posted by Anteros View Post
Somewhere along the way Rob forgot about "show, don't tell" rule of writing and the comic has been suffering greatly for it ever since. He doesn't trust his readers to infer obvious plot points and wants to spell them all out in painful detail.
Isn't his problem the exact opposite, then? Rather than forgetting it, he's taking 'show, don't tell' to an unreasonable extreme by showing everything in exacting bit-by-bit detail, even stuff that could be shown more concisely or just inferred.