"Alan Harnum" <harnums@hotmail.com> wrote:

Desire is what I wrote about.  Perhaps you didn't pick up on the fact 
that Nabiki is not exactly Nabiki, but the framework for this story is 
as old as the New Testament, and has been used in everything from the 
worst B-grade Hollywood horror films to Goethe's "Faust".  

Ryoga is offered the achievement of all his mortal desires; the 
possesion of both Akane and Akari, the defeat of Ranma, and even the 
basest temptations of the flesh in the form of "Nabiki" herself.  He is 
offered physical desire at the price of spiritual damnation.  

I certainly understood what this story was about... and I'd hazard a
guess that most everyone else did as well.

Overall, it was well-written and I liked it... If there's a weakness in
it, I'd say it's that there's not enough in it that's uniquely Ryoga.
I'm not saying that it was OOC, but with a very small amount of
adjustment it could have been about Ukyo, or about any of a lot of
different "hard luck" characters.


Gary Kleppe
http://www.execpc.com/~kleppe/comics