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How Not To Do A Flashback #5

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Contributed by War of

Phalanx Says:

This one makes my head spin. It's the flashback of a flashback of a flahs's flashback. This, folks, is the reason I hate stories with time-travel (Enterprise, for one).

Terotrous says:

I'm not sure how this example is bad, but it cracks me up so
I'll let it slide. It's like that thing where there's two mirrors
on opposite walls... it just keeps going and going and going...

mcDuffies says:

I don't like the end. It contains an actual punchline. But first four panels give reasons at why I was bored by Elf Life. Those flashbacks just went on and on and on. Still, Carson Fire never forgot any level of flashback, so technically they were correct.
It's recursion; those things have to stop at some moment. Well, they do, but that's why it is mainly a programming technique, because computers can process a recursion while human brain can't (except if it's very simple).
It's almost a rule in comics, flashbacks always come in moment when I'm actually more interested in what will happen next in present. Normally, then I wish them to be over sooner, not to drag themselves for months.