Since I've been behind on my reading, it's time to once again sacrifice
quality of C&C in favor of quantity. ^_^ As always, everything herein is
my opinion only.


A CHALLENGE!
By Ben Walker <benwalkr@udel.edu>
Archive number 881

The author wants someone to tell him how to do a "convincing"
Shampoo/Tsubasa fic. Or Shampoo/Konatsu.

If you don't even know how you want to do the matchup, how do you know
it'll work in your story (whatever it is)?


An Awakening of Demons, Chapter 1
by Phil Kagami <kagami@jeack.com.au>
Archive number 845

P-chan is attacked by a demon and helped by an unlikely rescuer, while
Nodoka reveals a secret about Ranma.

I don't usually care for "Ranma becomes super-powerful" fics, which this
seems like it might be turning into, but this was one of the best I've
seen. The plot seems quite imaginitive, the characters are well-handled,
and the writing has some excellent descriptive work. Looking forward to
seeing where this goes.


Crimson Dawn Chapter 8
By Jed Bidwell <Jedediah@tri-countynet.net>
Archive number 754

In order to save Akane's life, Ranma has had to make a bargain with some
mysterious stranger, the price of which is only just becoming evident.

This continues to be an interesting and well thought out storyline, with
good writing. I think most of the typos have been spotted already, but
one I noticed several times is "it's" (meaning "it is") in place of
"its" ("belonging to it). Anyhow, hope to see more of this soon.


Oscar, the Immortal
Meagen - SailorM <meagen@fcmail.com>
Archive number 886

The author shares her thoughts on everybody's favorite self-inserting
cat-loving hermaphrodite.

If there was a point to this, I must've missed it.


Sasuga wa Onii-sama
By "Dot Warner" <dot_warner17@my-deja.com>
Archive number 819

An apprentice goddess takes pity on Ryoga, and does something she thinks
will help him out.

There's a good story to be told here somewhere, I think, but I'm kinda
confused overall. Why is what Falora did for Ryoga a problem? If Mara's
supposed to be the main threat, she should probably show up earlier, and
we need to better understand her objectives and how Falora is able to
defeat her. Falora herself has good potential, but you really need to
write out Bell, who always seems to prevent Fal from screwing up in
interesting ways.


Wet the Bronze Axle
By Lei <elenalei@geocities.com>
Archive number 905

Kasumi and Ranma have a talk about Tofu, and other things.

Both Ranma and Kasumi seem too open with each other. In general, the
story was too short for the amount of character development that the
author was trying to do; suggest slowing down and either being less
ambitious or writing a longer story.


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