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^pretty much all of this.
The characters have become so boring that they fail to make a good story anymore, mainly because Eric refuses to confront the issues they have. He failed to do it here with Endora and ZigZag, and he's failed to do it in the past. Maybe he's afraid of addressing ZigZag flaws because she's his favorite and he doesn't want to paint her in a bad light with any seriousness, or maybe he just doesn't know what to really do with her outside of funny sex stuff. Either, as pointed out, he's not good at serious stories. But he could make good or interesting ones. The problem is that he's pretty much tossed all of his other characters out the window except ZigZag, Sabrina and Endora, and just kept the characters closest to them: Richard, Danielle, Warren, Tabitha, and a few of the porn studio characters. The problem is that apart from Tabitha's story there's nothing interesting about these characters left. Atleast not without going places Eric has already shown he's not willing to go.
I don't see why he doesn't just take the focus off of Sabrina, ZigZag, Endora or the porn characters, and switch it to other characters that he could make funny, lighthearted, or dramatic stories with. Sure it would be taking the focus off of Sabrina who is SUPPOSED to be the main character of this universe, but let's face it: Eric has done that a LONG time ago. ZigZag has pretty much completely over showed Sabrina in Eric's works, pushing her out of the spotlight more and more until the stories pretty much just become the ZigZag show. And his work has greatly suffer for it IMO.
Hell if he can't really think come up with anything for the characters anymore then why not just shift the timeline ahead and create a new stories with the future generation. The one interesting story Eric has written has demonstrated he could do more with them than he could dragging out the same tired tropes or attempting to take the his comics in a serious direction only to backpedal when the story actually starts to push back on the character's flaws. I think the brother was the most disappointing part of the story for me since since he appeared to be the one point where something ZigZag did would be held to some actual standard of accountability, but as usual that turned to shit so that Eric could maintain the status que of "best girl ZigZag can't do nuffin wrong". This whole story was a huge waste of time.
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