Though having an overall narrative of a sort, Applegeeks additionally has several running subplots that appear frequently throughout the comic.

As a result, the overall narrative provided by the prosecutor, the context if you will, is extremely important.

Instead there has to be a "travel" scene, full of sound and fury and signifying absolutely nothing in the overall narrative.

Clever directorial touches are welcome, but the overall narrative is paramount.

But each author wove these prophecies into an overall narrative in a different way.

In addition, each of their personal stories can be considered important to the overall narrative while at the same time being background or color.

The passages that have been taken from previously published stories fit uneasily within the overall narrative.

However, another writer states "the overall narrative is flawed, distorted by its weight of undeserved loss and inaccessible healing."

At the most basic level, that may be because the overall narratives of those conflicts don't seem particularly heroic or vindicating.

GameSpy noted the lack of an overall narrative between the campaigns was disappointing.