Bad webcomics

[Anonitolia]

Not entirely sure if this webcomic has been mentioned. Found the whole concept just overbearingly stupid and confusing. Not to mention, It has BOOKS and possibly a show in the works.

this looks like really bad furry art and like the product of a transformation fetish
can you elaborate or is none necessary

 

[conodont]

Userpage of botulism_bunny -- Fur Affinity [dot] net

Fur Affinity | For all things fluff, scaled, and feathered!

www.furaffinity.net

This guy does not deserve to share a birthday with Clyde Cash.
Also, if you don't want a furry website in your search history:

Spoiler: CHEESECAKE

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Bridgette's Belly - The Bad Webcomics Wiki

Before we get to the review, a bit of history. This review is actually a new version of an old review that we had for this comic that was tragically lost when the site was vandalized back in 2011. Since then we have been procrastinating regarding writing the review again. And in that time the...

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This guy graduated from college at the age of 24.
Sound familiar?

 

[Stuckinatoaster]

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this looks like really bad furry art and like the product of a transformation fetish
can you elaborate or is none necessary

Buddy, if I could I would but I just cannot. I have 0 fucking clue what is even happening in this shithole of a comic.

 

[Ghostse]

When will we as a society wake up and stop suffering the furry to live?

 

[Hummingbird]

Not entirely sure if this webcomic has been mentioned. Found the whole concept just overbearingly stupid and confusing. Not to mention, It has BOOKS and possibly a show in the works.

I've only read the latest page and, God, I can feel the angst dripping from every pore.

 

[CoolFool]

Decided to look at Questionable Content, which I used to read, and it looks like Marten, the main character, is moving away and leaving the comic to live with his dick girl. I abandoned the strip when it became all about robot girls lezzing out together and it sounds like nothing has changed since then.

I think Jeph just wants to stop doing QC and move onto something else, which is understandable considering he's been doing this for twenty years and 5000 pages, but after his Angel Grove comic failed (If you're going to do a webcomic that works better for print, you need to draw it like the genre and post more than two pages a week) he just changed QC into it and made it suck... worse than it used to.

Oh, and of course, the news that the protagonist is leaving is brushed over pretty quickly.


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I haven't read this comic in years. It looks like his art has actually gotten worse over time. I used to read this comic daily for years but stopped after the troon was introduce. Not even because I hate troons (I was actually very supportive at the time), but because that troon character sucked. Like troons do in real life, Claire sucked all the fun out of the comic and was beyond criticism or fault.

Tbh it was getting bad before the troon was introduced, but the troon nonsense really sped up the demise. That and making everyone gay. The only good thing about Claire being introduced was the funny memes 4chan created when Martin and the troon finally had sex.

 

[Hummingbird]

I haven't read this comic in years. It looks like his art has actually gotten worse over time.

Speaking of bad art, who do you guys think is one of the worst webcomic artists out there? I'd put Starline X Hodge's Candi comic as one of the worst I've seen. While the art was ok at first, it degraded to this...

I've had run ins with her before and I once gave her a guide to drawing better heads and she ignored it. The reason I'm being hard on her is that she's an art school graduate and she draws this horribly and refuses to improve her craft. The art in her new comic hasn't improved.

Even the creator of Dominic Deegan's art improved. I can't believe I'm complementing that comic. Now there's a classic bad webcomic.

 

[Owls Owls Owls]

Speaking of bad art, who do you guys think is one of the worst webcomic artists out there? I'd put Starline X Hodge's Candi comic as one of the worst I've seen. While the art was ok at first, it degraded to this...
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I've had run ins with her before and I once gave her a guide to drawing better heads and she ignored it. The reason I'm being hard on her is that she's an art school graduate and she draws this horribly and refuses to improve her craft. The art in her new comic hasn't improved.

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Even the creator of Dominic Deegan's art improved. I can't believe I'm complementing that comic. Now there's a classic bad webcomic.

There's a bunch whose horrible art never ceases to amaze, like woever is behind Moon Over June. More recently I was surprised to read "Numb to This" by Kindra Neely, since the art is garbage yet still was professionally published.

But if I had to choose it'd have to be the Megatokyo guy, simply because his art has not improved in the 23 years this thing has been going on. At least Neely's comic is her first one, so she has a chance to improve. Even Moon Over June looks very different than it did when it started. But this...

 

[Peru oso donas]

Speaking of bad art, who do you guys think is one of the worst webcomic artists out there?

Easy, this piece of garbage:

TRUMPed (Resist) - The Bad Webcomics Wiki

It's an "Orange Man Bad" webcomic... if you can even call it that. This is basically a comic version of The Resistance™ against Trump, AKA some random SJW whining that the orange man is bad and you need to know that he's bad. It was only a matter of time before TRUMPed (Resist) was discovered by...

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The absolute laziest Trump Derangement Syndrome case i have ever witnessed. Dude couldn't go the extra centimeter and draw his own trump bad comic, he was so fucking lazy he just took images from google and slapped some text in paint. Literally anyone can do this, even i can do it.

 

[Hummingbird]

There's a bunch whose horrible art never ceases to amaze, like woever is behind Moon Over June. More recently I was surprised to read "Numb to This" by Kindra Neely, since the art is garbage yet still was professionally published.

But if I had to choose it'd have to be the Megatokyo guy, simply because his art has not improved in the 23 years this thing has been going on. At least Neely's comic is her first one, so she has a chance to improve. Even Moon Over June looks very different than it did when it started. But this...

There's a joke I've heard about Megatokyo: "The women of Megatokyo have three expressions: boredom, apathy and the NyQuil is kicking in."

As for Moon Over June, man, the facial expressions were hideous and the sex scenes were just unappealing.

 

[Owls Owls Owls]

As for Moon Over June, man, the facial expressions were hideous and the sex scenes were just unappealing.

Shockingly, modern day Moon Over June has way better art than when it started. That is literally the only good thing I can say about that comic. It's still not good art, but an improvement.

The tranny flag on WocGirl's twitter does not surprise me, since the whole thing reads like a Kevin Gibes-level-oversexed tranny fantasy of what lesbian marriage is like.

 

[Ghostse]

Even the creator of Dominic Deegan's art improved. I can't believe I'm complementing that comic. Now there's a classic bad webcomic.

Tim Buckley's redemption arc is still the one I never saw coming.

There's a bunch whose horrible art never ceases to amaze, like woever is behind Moon Over June. More recently I was surprised to read "Numb to This" by Kindra Neely, since the art is garbage yet still was professionally published.

But if I had to choose it'd have to be the Megatokyo guy, simply because his art has not improved in the 23 years this thing has been going on. At least Neely's comic is her first one, so she has a chance to improve. Even Moon Over June looks very different than it did when it started. But this...

The art has improved ever so marginally. I mean when you spend two years making one page it better look ok.

 

[Anonitolia]

gonna shout out Sad 90s Adult here because all it is is the author winging about her own bad life choices and calling it humor (or "drama", according to the tags? sure, I guess if you consider your own personal pity party to be that)

It's very short, at only 7 comics so far, but I bring it up because it seems to be part of an entire genre of "journal" comics that are literally just the author (almost always a middle-aged female) winging about their personal life, often complaining about their parents like they're 15 year olds in the process.

Some notable examples:
Doom, Gloom, and Hot Balloons is exactly what it sounds like. (archived). The "art" on display is also exactly what you'd expect.

It hasn't updated since 2016 and is also rather short; i'm mainly including it because it's a good encapsulation of the genre. Atrocious art depicting an ugly person complaining about their life often with pretentious narration about their feelings. Funnily enough, this one actually started somewhat webcomic-y in tone before devolving into pure whining only 15 comics in... chronological order here is left to right so you can see what I mean lol. Also notable- that fat acceptance comic is from 2012! JANUARY 2012, no less. How has this shit been around for a decade already...

Life with Jitters (archived to the best of my abilities; the stupid login wall is cutting a lot off) is a particularly strange one, cataloguing the life of a 32 year-old trans-male Whovian brony. This is a partial archive- up until about a week or two ago there were more original comics on a comicfury site (this seems to be the only remnant of it, and unfortunately none of the outlinks are saved) that I was following, but that was deleted without warning and I only found out today when I went looking for this comic. Checking all the social medias of the author's main comic for an explanation as to why only netted me this tweet (archived) which is infuriatingly vague and answers nothing. I assume there was some stupid forum drama, but I can't imagine what it'd be since the site is extremely social-justice friendly and probably wouldn't have any issues with her identity or whatever. That, and her most recent forum posts are completely normal. I'm sure it was probably nothing major.
I don't have many comics to show here since they were all deleted, but from what I remember of some of the deleted comicfury ones, they involved:

• the author detailing how they acted like a dog for an entire year straight (wearing a collar, sleeping on a dog bed, chewing a bone, etc) and how their mom was okay with it
• several gross food habits such as drinking canned veggie water, eating frozen corndogs, sucking lemons and eating the peel (later found these on the tumblr)
• generally weird shit like sneezing when exposed to the sun or patting hot burritos
• constant discussion of inane details like how the author drinks milk, has bursts of hyperactive energy, or how she used to say spaghetti when she was little

but, you will notice that none of these ever mention the author being trans or a brony
this is because most of that content is on her DeviantArt (archived), which is about as lulzy as you'd expect (those groups lol). The reason I say she's trans is because of her YouTube channel, which has videos going back to 11 years ago and involve her attempting to voice act. Some highlights of that. I don't understand how some of these videos have broken the 10k mark and beyond. Brony dedication, I guess.
Anyways, to wrap this up, Jitters is a pretty interesting person that could probably make for interesting thread material if whatever caused the site shift ever comes to light/she starts acting more cowish later down the line. If anyone wants to do further research and/or might know this guy, her name is supposedly "Jack Wilkinson" (although that seems to be very common and searching it turns up tons of different results), and she lives in Portland I think. Shame she had to DFE right before I could archive all of the craziness that comic had in store lol.
Here's a selfie from her TikTok to end this post off.


(Was also going to include Bloody Fine Wake here as part of this, but it's not nearly as remarkable as the other comics so I'll just leave it here as an honorable mention. Revolves around a different trans man talking to herself about being trans (and an art school graduate with identity issues while shitting on their parents, go figure) via 4 versions of her past and 1 of her present. A bit weird.)

EDIT: if the selfie didn't tip you off to it already, Jitters follows the typical sona rule of "the prettier the sona looks, the worse the author irl does". Literally the only reason Jitters can pass for male (aside from the facial hair) is because she's too fat to differentiate by means of shoulder width or facial structure. Also lol @ dem legs.
EDIT 2: She's got a thread, apparently! It's been dead for years so I had no idea, and it's only 3 pages long, but I guess she makes decent-enough cow material after all

 

[Owls Owls Owls]

it seems to be part of an entire genre of "journal" comics that are literally just the author (almost always a middle-aged female) winging about their personal life, often complaining about their parents like they're 15 year olds in the process.

Agree. This is something I've become more aware of in the last couple of years: There's a boom of "biographical" comics that are far too long for how little they say.

Maia Kobabe, Lucy Kniesly, Jamila Rowser -- they all have popular books that leave no impression beyond "whiny American woman writing". Kniesly at least has nice, if boring, art. The other two, not even that.

At least Kate Beaton's Ducks doubled as a critique of the oil industry in Canada, so it's not just "I once broke down crying in Starbucks because a song made me homesick". But it really toed the line with the "whiny woman lamenting her life choices" that's become so fucking popular in the indie world.

(Not that I'm any fan of Beaton's after seeing her defend "I am Jazz", that one tranny picture book. She has two small kids who do not need that shit in their lives).

 

[fishercat]

generally weird shit like sneezing when exposed to the sun

Ok gonna pull a stage 5 autism here but that's real and it's not uncommon. I have it. One theory is that it's caused by your optic nerves reacting to bright light accidentally setting off your sneeze reflex. Weird, but real.

Not exactly something I'd consider noteworthy but judging by the rest of that person's comics they consider the most inane shit to be worth talking about.

 

[Anonitolia]

Ok gonna pull a stage 5 autism here but that's real and it's not uncommon. I have it. One theory is that it's caused by your optic nerves reacting to bright light accidentally setting off your sneeze reflex. Weird, but real.

Not exactly something I'd consider noteworthy but judging by the rest of that person's comics they consider the most inane shit to be worth talking about.

Nah, I'm not bashing it as a concept, I just think it's pretty weird to publicly announce something like that in a journal. Granted, it's weird to publicly announce a journal in the first place, but w/ever I thought it added to my point about the comic being weirdly fixated on boring minutiae lol.

Like, c'mon man, you have a much more interesting life outside of the color of your eyes and the fact that you run around sometimes. Why not talk to your audience about all the cub porn you made or the plethora of abuse you defended and depicted? That's way more engaging!

 

[Arthur Morgan]

I haven't read this comic in years. It looks like his art has actually gotten worse over time.

Looking over some comics it's insane how many popular ones really don't improve. Maybe over the first couple of years, but then the artist gets to a point of 'meh, close enough' and just moves on.

There's this now finished comic I used to read call Living with Insanity that never really took off. Compare the early strips to the last few and you can see the artist put way more effort into it after ten years. Meanwhile, Penny Arcade has regressed to the point where the early stuff looks better than what Gabe is putting out now.

 

[Hummingbird]

Meanwhile, Penny Arcade has regressed to the point where the early stuff looks better than what Gabe is putting out now.

What's with the buck teeth he gave the black-haired one?

 

[CoolFool]

Megatokyo was one webcomic I could never understand why it was so popular. Back in the day when I was really into webcomics (Seriously, I had like 30 webcomics I checked daily, and I was always looking for new stuff to read), I couldn't get into Megatokyo, and I really tried. It was popular, everyone said it was great, and it was always in the top spots on webcomic ratings. The thing is, there were a few really popular webcomics I could never get into, but I could still understand why they were popular to other people. Kind of like how I can see why people like Taylor Swift even though I don't care for her.

But Megatokyo? Nah. Even now, I don't get it. The art is shit, the page layouts are terrible, and the author still to this day dumps paragraphs of texts into tiny panels. Someone explain how that comic got popular because the only theory I have is that they were spamming and manipulating rating websites at a time when it was easier to do.

Speaking of old popular webcomics, does anyone remember the (Now defunct?) once popular webcomic, Kagerou? I remember when I found this comic years ago, it started out pretty good. The art was kind of meh at first but it was fun to see the author get better and better every chapter. Like they were clearly passionate about it, the story line started out really interesting. Here's an archive: http://www.kagerou.org/archive.html

But then, I don't know what happened. The art got worse, and the story started making zero sense. Also, I seem to recall the author trooning out or doing something that pissed off troons. Either way, sucks how many webcomics I used to really like ended up turning to shit after a few years.

 

[Mayor Cody Travers]

Megatokyo was one webcomic I could never understand why it was so popular. Back in the day when I was really into webcomics (Seriously, I had like 30 webcomics I checked daily, and I was always looking for new stuff to read), I couldn't get into Megatokyo, and I really tried. It was popular, everyone said it was great, and it was always in the top spots on webcomic ratings. The thing is, there were a few really popular webcomics I could never get into, but I could still understand why they were popular to other people. Kind of like how I can see why people like Taylor Swift even though I don't care for her.

But Megatokyo? Nah. Even now, I don't get it. The art is shit, the page layouts are terrible, and the author still to this day dumps paragraphs of texts into tiny panels. Someone explain how that comic got popular because the only theory I have is that they were spamming and manipulating rating websites at a time when it was easier to do.

It was around in the late 90s and early 00s if I remember right... and that was when millennials were young, optimistic, and most of all, weebs. And the artist was living the dream being a young 20 something dude in Japan just as it became cool to be a weeaboo. It was basically living vicariously through him via the webcomic. That and if I also remember right, webcomics were hitting their golden age and it got to ride that wave just as hard.