Bad webcomics

[Ghostse]

From the webcomic that brought you "Joe Biden has a nice middle name" (s), XKCD continues its endorsement of the Democratic Party with "Kamala Harris likes Venn diagrams" (s). How lovely.

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Hard to imagine political rhetoric more microtargeted at me than 'I love Venn diagrams. I really do, I love Venn diagrams. It's just something about those three circles.'

(Yes, she really did say that.)

"Would be a good president ... of the local Dick Suckers Union #782"

Jesus fucking christ. You're voting blue no matter who and learning zero lessons about what that gets you but seriously what has she done that would make you even remotely believe she'd not be utterly fucking abymsal.

 

[Coolio55]

From the webcomic that brought you "Joe Biden has a nice middle name" (s), XKCD continues its endorsement of the Democratic Party with "Kamala Harris likes Venn diagrams" (s). How lovely.

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Hard to imagine political rhetoric more microtargeted at me than 'I love Venn diagrams. I really do, I love Venn diagrams. It's just something about those three circles.'

(Yes, she really did say that.)

Just realized that goatkcd hasn't updated in a while. Fuck.

 

[Friendly Primarina]

From the webcomic that brought you "Joe Biden has a nice middle name" (s), XKCD continues its endorsement of the Democratic Party with "Kamala Harris likes Venn diagrams" (s). How lovely.

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Hard to imagine political rhetoric more microtargeted at me than 'I love Venn diagrams. I really do, I love Venn diagrams. It's just something about those three circles.'

(Yes, she really did say that.)

The more things change, the more they stay the same

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We can do this.

 

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From the webcomic that brought you "Joe Biden has a nice middle name" (s), XKCD continues its endorsement of the Democratic Party with "Kamala Harris likes Venn diagrams" (s). How lovely.

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Hard to imagine political rhetoric more microtargeted at me than 'I love Venn diagrams. I really do, I love Venn diagrams. It's just something about those three circles.'

(Yes, she really did say that.)

"Oh, it's like one of your 'post-irony' comics! You want us to laugh because it's unfunny."



"No. Viewer. This comic is not post-ironic."



"I want you to vote for my specific politics. Now."

 

[Meriasek]

I mostly read bad webcomics, and mostly out of habit. Just sticking with them until they finally die, part of the morning routine.
Questionable Content. Probably started reading that one like 20 years ago and it was a big deal for many years. I used to love it, but it took a pretty hard nosedive in quality some years ago. Now I just want to see it finish.
Dumbing of Age. Also going on forever, following up on It's Walky! and Shortpacked, all of which I read and I don't even know why.
Misfile. I really don't know why I'm still reading this shit.
The only good webcomic I read is Gunnerkrigg Court. That's good shit.

 

[Carl Smallwang]

The more things change, the more they stay the same
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We can do this.

I really do wish Trump was as based as people made him out to be.
Then we could have brought IQ tests back to the voting booths. SHIT!

 

[The Un-Clit]

I mostly read bad webcomics, and mostly out of habit. Just sticking with them until they finally die, part of the morning routine.
Questionable Content. Probably started reading that one like 20 years ago and it was a big deal for many years. I used to love it, but it took a pretty hard nosedive in quality some years ago. Now I just want to see it finish.
Dumbing of Age. Also going on forever, following up on It's Walky! and Shortpacked, all of which I read and I don't even know why.
Misfile. I really don't know why I'm still reading this shit.
The only good webcomic I read is Gunnerkrigg Court. That's good shit.

Shortpacked! was good in the beginning before it went turbo-woke. 'I'm Batman, and I can breathe in space' is still a live meme somehow. But the porn was so god-awful I ended up roasting it on the forum and the artist got a red ass over it and banned me. (Of course, I'm far from alone there.) Didn't much care for the rest of the Walky-verse comics but I am not surprised he's dragging Dumbing of Age out.

 

[Ghostse]

The only good webcomic I read is Gunnerkrigg Court. That's good shit.

Is it? I soft dropped it when they made Kat a lesbian out of no where for proto-wokie brownie points, and then realized the plot was going nowhere very slowly and dropped it completely. Then I saw shit was going full off the rails a few years ago with her dad coming back and then there's like a clone of Antimony or something.

Shortpacked! was good in the beginning before it went turbo-woke. 'I'm Batman, and I can breathe in space' is still a live meme somehow. But the porn was so god-awful I ended up roasting it on the forum and the artist got a red ass over it and banned me. (Of course, I'm far from alone there.) Didn't much care for the rest of the Walky-verse comics but I am not surprised he's dragging Dumbing of Age out.

Shortpacked was dumb fun until willis got a chapped ass and tried to do insightful commentary (and tried to tie wacky highjinx shit back to Walky icing nearly every side character via martian tentacle rape in the final arc). Ironically him making the Male Main gay out of no where was one of the few times that's happened and I didn't immediately hate it, but it was the shark-jumping event.
And it had nothing on when he took the pie-throwing talking car he came up with when he was 6 and made it become a girl through a ham-fisted Tranny allegory.

Dumbing of age was too retarded for me really bother except for hate reading for a while to see how he was going to twist his characters for maximum Queer Ally Points. Then deciding that was stupid and a waste of time.

I am still shocked that he hasn't come out as Trans or a fag.

 

[UtopiaGuy]

QC still fills me with disgust and rage. I fucking hate that comic and it's hack creator. I haven't seen it in like five years, and have not missed not seeing it. Apparently, like cockroaches, it endures.

 

[Cave Fisher]

I've never really gotten into QC, all I know about it is its artstyle is lame as shit and it has extremely human looking robots.

 

[Meriasek]

Dunno, I like Gunnerkrigg. The Kat-lesbian part was a bit out of left field, but it was never really played for woke points. Not like how everyone in QC or Dumbing of Age is queer.
The story is picking up atm and it seems like Tom is rumbling towards the end.
Unlike QC or Dumbing of Age, which will continue forever.
Particularly QC is just not going anywhere and in the past years the pacing has gone from glacial to tectonical. The past like four in-universe days have taken place over real world years at this point, and nothing happens.
New characters are introduced from time to time, only to be dropped when Jorf loses interest in them, and every character becomes queer or disappears, no exceptions. Juff might say Marten is still straight because Claire is an honest to God woman, but yeah nah.
The past months just have been introducing a few highly annoying and terrible new characters that all worship Claire like a god, and introducing them to all the old cast members.
I'm just sticking with it out of habit and spite. And the funnier comic edits on the reddit.
Gotta hand it to Willis, he has the most realistic depiction of a trans character in Dumbing of Age. Carla is extremely narcissistic, trust fund kid, and just incredibly obnoxious, and tries to get into the pants of an obviously autistic and barely responsive girl.

 

[Arthur Morgan]

QC feels like Jeph is long since done with it, but is too scared to try anything else because that Alice Grove thing crashed and burned.

Dumbing of Age is kind of similar, this is Willis' most successful comic and he actually got praise from his audience for inserting politics into it, but now things are petering out and his art is getting lazier as he cuts more corners. I don't begrudge pre-drawn backgrounds, but have some full body shots now and again.

There are plenty of comics I quit because they had a story that was being dragged out. Misfile was one of the worst because it was Hazelton's most successful and he had three kids born during its run. What was worse was he had some side characters who had their own shit happening, but he was insistent on it being all Ash all the time, and Ash was never able to grow and change as a character, so nothing ever happened. And he made shit up as he went along, one character reveals she's pregnant, then a week later goes into labor but we find out she's so far along there's no danger of the baby being a premie. That's about where I ducked out. I mostly stuck around because I liked the forum.

I'm still reading Gunnerkrigg but I've forgotten so much about it that there'll be plot twists based on shit that happened ten years ago and I'll have no idea where it came from.

 

[Ghostse]

I'm still reading Gunnerkrigg but I've forgotten so much about it that there'll be plot twists based on shit that happened ten years ago and I'll have no idea where it came from.

This is modern Sluggy Freelance, except its 20 years.

 

[Meriasek]

QC feels like Jeph is long since done with it, but is too scared to try anything else because that Alice Grove thing crashed and burned.

Dumbing of Age is kind of similar, this is Willis' most successful comic and he actually got praise from his audience for inserting politics into it, but now things are petering out and his art is getting lazier as he cuts more corners. I don't begrudge pre-drawn backgrounds, but have some full body shots now and again.

There are plenty of comics I quit because they had a story that was being dragged out. Misfile was one of the worst because it was Hazelton's most successful and he had three kids born during its run. What was worse was he had some side characters who had their own shit happening, but he was insistent on it being all Ash all the time, and Ash was never able to grow and change as a character, so nothing ever happened. And he made shit up as he went along, one character reveals she's pregnant, then a week later goes into labor but we find out she's so far along there's no danger of the baby being a premie. That's about where I ducked out. I mostly stuck around because I liked the forum.

I'm still reading Gunnerkrigg but I've forgotten so much about it that there'll be plot twists based on shit that happened ten years ago and I'll have no idea where it came from.

Yeah, Jurf has checked out long ago. I liked Alice Grove, too bad he dropped it. But it was generally during a phase where it seemed he had proper passion. Now he's trying to add scifi elements into QC but since he's not very good at scifi it's basically just the same neurotic twenty-somethings but pastel-skinned and in athleisurewear with the occasional hint at something more going on (which is never explored in favour of more Claire worship).
Misfile, I don't even remember what was going on in the original story. At some point he just ended it and it was all fixed. And then he continued it, and I don't know why I'm reading it because absolutely nothing happens. QC moves at a glacial pace, but Misfile is even worse. And where QC evolves in artstyle (sadly in the wrong direction for a few thousand strips now where Jorph got lazy), Misfile has always had the exact same bad style.
Gunnerkrigg is easy binge to get up to speed again, at least. There is little filler and stuff happens. Also, it has good art and an interesting story. I'd probably recommend reading it once ends.

A webcomic that actually made it to printed publishing that I enjoyed was Space Mullet. Sad there was never a follow up. It had an interesting world and great art. Daniel Warren Johnson is a Marvel artist now.

 

[Arthur Morgan]

Misfile, I don't even remember what was going on in the original story. At some point he just ended it and it was all fixed. And then he continued it, and I don't know why I'm reading it because absolutely nothing happens. QC moves at a glacial pace, but Misfile is even worse. And where QC evolves in artstyle (sadly in the wrong direction for a few thousand strips now where Jorph got lazy), Misfile has always had the exact same bad style.

It wasn't bad in the early days, around volume four to six he had improved and while it could have been better, it felt like he was trying. Then his wife got pregnant and he started half assing it, with some pages being full of photoshopped transition shots, more and more space being given to the borders, and a lot of easy close ups.

This was especially bad with his other comic, 6 Gun Mage. A fantasy western. Would a page like this really make you want to read this comic? And this is in the first chapter.

 

[UtopiaGuy]

It wasn't bad in the early days, around volume four to six he had improved and while it could have been better, it felt like he was trying. Then his wife got pregnant and he started half assing it, with some pages being full of photoshopped transition shots, more and more space being given to the borders, and a lot of easy close ups.

This was especially bad with his other comic, 6 Gun Mage. A fantasy western. Would a page like this really make you want to read this comic? And this is in the first chapter.

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Damn. That's... pretty rough.

The page, I mean.

 

[Ghostse]

Gunnerkrigg is easy binge to get up to speed again, at least. There is little filler and stuff happens. Also, it has good art and an interesting story. I'd probably recommend reading it once ends.

Now that is patently untrue front to back and you know it.

Yes, nearly every arc gets a call back but tons of pages/ink is wasted teasing mysteries. (though unlike a certain Mystery-Box obsessed hack director, there's a plan to deliver on them. But when you are archive binging (or combing through for a comic) there is a lot of blah blah blah between the important parts.

Stuff happens, but it happens glacially. Its a bit like (though not as bad as ) Dragon Ball Z where you could cliff notes the comic down to 1/2 or 1/4 by just removing the future references. This is very frog-boily when you are reading, but archive binges... good god son is there a lot of faffing about.

Plus it is a very wordy comic. And as mentioned, lots of stuff gets callbacks or referenced later so you can't really just skim.

At least when Abrams does this in Sluggy now he includes links to the referenced comics/events.

 

[Conspiracy Mawile]

Even at its worst, Gunnerkrigg is still one of the best webcomics out there.
It got a little of the rails with the whole sudden twin plot and its resolution, but it's one of the few series out there that introduced a character deeply loathed by the majority of the fanbase (Antmonys father), and not only keeping him, but doubling-down with his story.
the chapter where he is introduced (51) is one of the best of the series imo.
Dont know any other webcomic who wouldve treated a character like him this way, for most webtoons there wouldve been some "fuck u dad smash the patriarchy" resolution.

 

[UtopiaGuy]

Is there any hope for webcomics? I took a peek at the webcomic world recently after having walked away five years or more ago, and it looks like it's all vertical scrolling bullshit today. No room for panel art or layout, and the only composition to speak of is just spacing in a vertical format. Obviously, some people are able to make that work, but I don't think I'd care for it. It just goes along with the dumbing down of society from social media and the like. Phones, phones, phones. I guess doomscrolling a comic is better than doomscrolling Facebook or Twitter, but seriously, what the hell? So much for the "endless canvas" they used to talk about.

 

[Whatevermancer]

Is there any hope for webcomics? I took a peek at the webcomic world recently after having walked away five years or more ago, and it looks like it's all vertical scrolling bullshit today. No room for panel art or layout, and the only composition to speak of is just spacing in a vertical format. Obviously, some people are able to make that work, but I don't think I'd care for it. It just goes along with the dumbing down of society from social media and the like. Phones, phones, phones. I guess doomscrolling a comic is better than doomscrolling Facebook or Twitter, but seriously, what the hell? So much for the "endless canvas" they used to talk about.

Is it even viable to draw webcomics anymore, if you're planning to do it as a career? The competition is fierce, not only from other webcomic artists, but also everything else that demands readers' attention on the web. Have there been any new webcomics that have become household names like XKCD or Cyanide & Happiness?