So, since "Schlock Mercenary" ended ... does anyone often feel that there is something weird about the climax of that webcomic's stories? Often the story builds to a peak of tension and that is suddenly erased by something in the background which is not fully explained and we move on to the denoument.
A lot of writing about plotting today is weirdly proscriptive on the basis of a very narrow selection of model stories and a very narrow selection of people's responses to those stories, but I often felt let down at the end of a book.