Candi

It’s easy to write sympathetic protagonists in a story. What’s not so easy is to create an interesting and realistic antagonist you sympathize with. This last storyline in the college webcomic Candi with Linda and Alex and her realization that she’d better stop screwing around and be faithful to him? That helped redeem her, if only a little bit. Mind you, Linda has a lot to make up for (seeing that several years back (though only one semester due to the vagaries of webcomic-time) she broke Alex and Candi up and in the process fell for him and started dating him herself) and she was cheating on him… but at least she realizes it and isn’t proud of it. Before this story, I was rooting for Alex to see Linda for who and what she is and dump her on the curb. But now? It might be interesting to watch Linda try to reform herself. And it doesn’t matter if her relationship with Alex lasts; no, what I’m interested in seeing is for Linda to start down the road of redemption… if only for her own peace of mind.