Hey, you, don’t uncheck my “display sig” option when I preview. :smack:
Or if they make sense, won’t be funny. I don’t get the subtleties of most yiffy humor, I confess. Oh, wait, that’s because there aren’t any! Ha, I kill me!
I’ll confess, with no disrespect intended jin, that Crap doesn’t do it for me much. It’s feast or famine for me–either I go “ok, whatever,” or I’m on the floor. So I keep reading it for the “on the floor” moments. The enjoyment to yawn ratio is high enough for me to keep up with. With most comix, that isn’t the case.
I dunno. It’s not like I have a limited sense of humor. I guess it’s just that I have unreasonable and elitist expectations.
Thanks, audreyayn. I’ll see if I can get to them in a couple days.
I consider Wapsisquare to be a good chaser to other web comics. It is a slice of life comic with a touch of weirdness and nothing that makes me cringe. All in all it doesn’t do anything different it just does the typical stuff better.
What I’d love for web comics to do is something like partial issues of comic books or things that look web native instead of being stuck in “scan a normal strip” mode. There are a few that do this, but not nearly enough. Right now web comics are in the “Hey, I could do this too” mode where major modifications are character particulars or the lines the writer is willing to cross (though between ghastly, sexylosers, and S*P I’m not sure there are any uncrossed lines left). The terrible hand of selection will strike soon and what is left will be “teh awsem” or whatever the fuck kids will be saying then.
Works for me, thanks.
I agree. It’s one of the reasons I still read Sluggy, since Pete’s shown willing to get creative in his layout and formatting in recent years.
Although the storyline for Sluggy is currently in the toilet. Not to mention the completely unrelated weekend strips by guest comics. And the weird video-game screen-captures with added word balloons.
I miss the old Sluggy, frankly. I miss Torg and Kiki and Aylie and Gwynn and Zoe and Riff. Seriously. This time-pirate shit with Bun-Bun is just…awful.
andros, I wish you pointed out how elitist you are in the beginning of the thread. If you had done that in the first place that I would not have been so upset over you image of comic strips being a “shit sandwich”. Unless you are an obsessive compulsive, then you are not forced to consume the comics you have mention as being horrible. Being free, you are free to turn away from comics you don’t like. Comics which I believe to have wonderful plots and heroes that I want to know what happens to. But I guess that that’s just me.
Now, if you like Sluggy so much, then have you tried asking sluggites which comics they prefer and why?
Agreed in spades. Even more so because I was really stoked to see the Return of the Bun.
Ian isn’t doing Saturdays anymore at least. This past Saturday was his last one.
I think it’ll get a lot better once we have some idea as to how it fits into the Sluggyverse as a whole. Right now, we have no idea what’s going on, and there’s not much happening either–it’s a bad combination.
Still, after Holiday Wars and That Which Redeems, I’m willing to cut Pete a little slack.
btw, last Saturday was the last Ian McDonald strip. Not sure what’s up next, but it has to be better.
Hey, that’s cool. It isn’t for everyone. It’s basically an inner monologue in comic form. It started out on my LiveJournal, then migrated over to its own page, then I had enough readers asking for a book that I cleaned up the site and made it what it is now. I’ve asked people in the past what they liked/didn’t like about it, and the answers varied so widely and were so diverse that there isn’t really a way to change it from anything other than what it is, without just scrapping it and doing a totally different comic instead. In its current form it tends to have a little something that most people like, except the occasional nasty letter I get from tightey-righties mad because I poke fun at Bush or disgruntled Creationists writing to tell me to eat shit because I made a joke at their expense. (Gotta love someone calling me anti-Christian and a horrible human being, then telling me to eat shit and die!)
I have another comic called Asylum on 5th Street that I haven’t updated in forever. Mostly because the pages take about eight hours each to draw, and I’m pretty much just working on commissions these days to pay the rent. It’s written by someone else though, and it’s more story-based. That one I take much more seriously as far as the art and layout goes. I’m trying to make more time for it, but comics is just something I kinda do on the side of my other stuff.
I think one of the good things about webcomics is that, depsite the signal to noise ratio, it gives a lot of comics and graphic ideas a venue they never had before. You can literally do a comic about anything you want, and the people that are interesting in whatever subject you are drawing/writing about can easily find you.
You don’t find a lot of the Garfieldesque, bland appeal-to-everybody comics on the web that you do in the newspapers. Hell, S*P is one of the most popular webcomics out there, but you should see the hate mail Randy gets. Oh, the hate mail. No matter what you do, someone is going to dislike it or think it’s crap. C’est la vie.
You also have to remember that for all these webcomics out there, most of them are done out of just love and the desire to make comics. You can’t expect newspaper or Marvel quality out of some guy just doing it as a hobby while working a full-time job.
Most webcomics stay fairly close to a printable/“scan normal strip” mode because once a strip reaches a certain amount of readership, said readers will usually start demanding a book. And book == income.
Amen, alleluia and thank Og! The only thing worse than the real Steve Irwin is a demonic version in a story that has no real story.
I think it’ll get a lot better once we have some idea as to how it fits into the Sluggyverse as a whole. Right now, we have no idea what’s going on, and there’s not much happening either–it’s a bad combination.
Still, after Holiday Wars and That Which Redeems, I’m willing to cut Pete a little slack.
btw, last Saturday was the last Ian McDonald strip. Not sure what’s up next, but it has to be better.
Pay attention, Sparky.
If it squishes and stinks, it’s not likely a duck.
I’m not sitting around reading strips that I think suck donkey. I do try to give a new strip some attention (frex, I’m going back to Wapsi b/c The Tim has convinced me I didn’t give it a fair shake the first time).
But if you’re seriously going to assert that Keenspace has more good comix than utter garbage, I’m going to have to assume you have laughably low standards.
I suppose I could do that. Or I could ask here. Which I have done.
Oh, one other thing. Just because someone works had doesn’t mean I have to enjoy or respect their work. Thomas Kinkade works hard. Keanu Reeves works hard. People who write Kirk/Elrond/Chewbacca slash work hard. Doesn’t mean their work doesn’t blow.
Amen, alleluia and thank Og! The only thing worse than the real Steve Irwin is a demonic version in a story that has no real story.
jinwicked, thanks. You’re absolutely right, and I’ve often lost sight of the good things about having a venue like the web for artists of all sorts. And I do respect the love and drive that makes people draw. Even if they do write like William hung sings.
You think that’s why? I think it’s because it’s hard to find comics that used unconvential layouts and work. I’ve seen a comic flash story where you click on part of an image to get to the next one, where there is no order. Didn’t like it. It might be very interesting to do a Choose Your Own Adventure comic, but it’d also be a whole lot of effort, coding, etc. So, like all new territory, it’s difficult and may not even work.
Unless you’re just talking about the tendancy to use same-size four panel layouts all the time, which is odd.
I’d just ike to offer a harty “Fuck You” to andros.
My sister has a webcomic on keespace which she does for fun in her free time, she’s an art student and it’s a great opertunity for her to practice and imporve her skills.
Guess what, she doesn’t give a flying monkey butt what you think of it.
Well, I know Scott McCloud did some comics about webcomics that were done like a flow-chart on a webpage, and I know quite a few that use vertical and other formats, but I don’t know how much experimentation the original poster is referring to. Most of the other webcomicers I know intend to publish their work in some form or another eventually, even if it’s just indie/zines. Some have 1 or 4 panel format, some use a more comic-book style of panels drawn and arranged to fit the action. I’m not sure what else you can do with it short of using Flash or starting to animate things, probably needlessly (I hate Flash 99% of the time.)
Here, here. Well said.
If you want to skip past all the haters, slinkydink, here:
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=5895863&postcount=3
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=5895881&postcount=5
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=5895935&postcount=6
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=5895988&postcount=8
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=5896672&postcount=14
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=5898089&postcount=27
and finally an explination for why he said this:
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=5897873&postcount=22