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I know after growing up reading webcomics, I'm quite reluctant to pick up a new serialized one unless the author has a history of finishing projects or moves it along fairly fast- I've invested my time and energy into reading so many that just never finished or stopped. No hard feelings to the authors, webcomics are usually a side gig or hobby and people move on, but it's really hard to start reading something unfinished that I know will take years to tell it's story, or likely never finish. That doesn't mean you need to not write a serialized work, but there may be a segment of readers, similar to me, who are really hard to convince to pick up a slow burn story comic, regardless of quality and it's not a judgement on your comic. Also it sucks to feel like you are putting a creative labor of love out into the void, my sympathy.
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Yeah. For example, I don't regret my time reading Cucumber Quest, but I don't think I would start reading it if I knew it would peter out 2/3 of the way through, even knowing how much fun it was along the way. Comics that updated every MWF like clockwork are the ones that managed to keep going to a planned resolution, whether that took 3 years or 12. That's not to say that I'm happy with something consistent-but-mediocre. But it's super reassuring to know that, say, Gunnerkrigg Court will probably be completed. It has the update schedule that Dr. McNinja kept as opposed to Broodhollow. I strongly miss both of those, but missing Broodhollow has a lot more disappointment mixed in, y'know?
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May 3, 2020 23:40
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capitaldelendaest posted:I know after growing up reading webcomics, I'm quite reluctant to pick up a new serialized one unless the author has a history of finishing projects or moves it along fairly fast- I've invested my time and energy into reading so many that just never finished or stopped. No hard feelings to the authors, webcomics are usually a side gig or hobby and people move on, but it's really hard to start reading something unfinished that I know will take years to tell it's story, or likely never finish. That doesn't mean you need to not write a serialized work, but there may be a segment of readers, similar to me, who are really hard to convince to pick up a slow burn story comic, regardless of quality and it's not a judgement on your comic. More people should really do serial shorts, it's a format that you can kinda pick up or drop as time allows and still expect to get some kind of satisfactorily completed work out of it. I feel like at some point there was a terrible transition from 90% of webcomics being basically Garfield if Garfield was one of two couchbound gamers to 90% of webcomics being the permanently on-hiatus expository prelude to somebody's 1200000-page epic about a world... where videogames are real life A Wizard of Goatse fucked around with this message at 07:32 on May 4, 2020 |
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May 4, 2020 07:13
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The ability to tell a story and keep it short is a skill all on its own. A lot of webcomics try to kick off a big long epic with no real plans to ever bring it to a close, which means stopping abruptly whenever their enthusiasm for the project runs dry. It's much safer to do a gag-a-day webcomic that could plausibly be stopped at any time, but when narratives start leaking into the jokes, all bets are off.
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May 4, 2020 17:08
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don't start with a 500 page comic that's my recommendation
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May 4, 2020 18:47
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I think someone might be trying to deceptively soft reboot comicsgate on webcomic host website comicfury starting here I'm not real sure where to bring that up at, but it's on a webcomic site and I found out about it because I make webcomics, so
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May 4, 2020 20:26
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Operant posted:don't start with a 500 page comic that's my recommendation poo poo
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May 4, 2020 20:46
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gonna emergency retool ADS into gag-a-day i guess
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May 4, 2020 20:46
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Lunatic Sledge posted:I think someone might be trying to deceptively soft reboot comicsgate on webcomic host website comicfury I can barely parse this dude’s posts
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May 4, 2020 21:01
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your comic should be 7000 pages minimum and you should redraw old pages you dislike and you should work by candlelight applying gold leaf to the pages in a monastery in southern france
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May 4, 2020 22:13
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fun hater posted:your comic should be 7000 pages minimum and you should redraw old pages you dislike and you should work by candlelight applying gold leaf to the pages in a monastery in southern france Start a kickstarter to fund your monastery move, and make sure to promise expansive backer rewards!
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May 4, 2020 22:22
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Tenebrais posted:Start a kickstarter to fund your monastery move, and make sure to promise expansive backer rewards! Especially t-shirts. Lots of t-shirts. T-shirts at every level!
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May 4, 2020 23:25
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Tenebrais posted:Start a kickstarter to fund your monastery move, and make sure to promise expansive backer rewards! I want cheese and beer.
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May 4, 2020 23:40
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SlothfulCobra posted:The ability to tell a story and keep it short is a skill all on its own. I'd suggest to pretend it's a print comic and you have to keep your story in self-contained chapters of 64 pages maximum -- aim for 32 or 48. I figure the way to do that is to thumbnail the comic with super-rough stick figures, then prune relentlessly through that draft until you get it under the page quota. Then you can start drawing for real.
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May 5, 2020 00:36
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fun hater posted:your comic should be 7000 pages minimum and you should redraw old pages you dislike and you should work by candlelight applying gold leaf to the pages in a monastery in southern france
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fun hater posted:your comic should be 7000 pages minimum and you should redraw old pages you dislike and you should work by candlelight applying gold leaf to the pages in a monastery in southern france Some of those monastery illustrations are loving wild, you might be onto something here.
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May 5, 2020 00:59
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Hostile V posted:I'm a pretty big fan of Geoff Jacques' QUEFTIONABLE CONTENT when the priest reads it for us when mass is over on Sundays. Long shall I remember the Parable of the Second Faye.
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May 5, 2020 01:01
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3 posted:gonna emergency retool ADS into gag-a-day i guess
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3 posted:gonna emergency retool ADS into gag-a-day i guess You could go the other way and keep expanding the scope and eventually try to turn it into an animated series.
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Cat Mattress posted:I'd suggest to pretend it's a print comic and you have to keep your story in self-contained chapters of 64 pages maximum -- aim for 32 or 48. A good strategy because by the time you start drawing for real you already gave up and moved on 39 pages ago, sparing the world from yet another abandoned webcomic
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May 5, 2020 09:57
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Cup Runneth Over posted:A good strategy because by the time you start drawing for real you already gave up and moved on 39 pages ago, sparing the world from yet another abandoned webcomic Some of my favourite stuff on Tapas are either the “here’s a featured webcomic with like a billion likes and is super popular... oh it updated twice 4 years ago and its author dropped off the face of the internet” or “here’s a comic with a really colourful and good looking header image that draws your eye and makes you want to read it... aaaand it’s basically just black and white stick figures on empty panel pages, you have wasted everyone’s time and should have just wrote a book instead” type comics. That place is LOADED with them.
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May 5, 2020 10:24
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Sleepless Domain: Really don't think excluding Cassidy is going to help matters. She already thinks they're conspiring against her, making her right probably isn't going to be good for the dynamic. Even if she totally deserves it.
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Tenebrais posted:Sleepless Domain: Really don't think excluding Cassidy is going to help matters. She already thinks they're conspiring against her, making her right probably isn't going to be good for the dynamic. Even if she totally deserves it. Rather depends on whether or not Cassidy survives the night. She's alone, distracted, and Goopy already decided that her problem is that "there are too many magical girls." I'd say Cass's chances to make it to 2am is fifty-fifty at best.
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May 7, 2020 22:21
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A fifty/fifty chance isn't half bad when there's two of you. Arbitrarily keeping secrets from the paranoid who's willing to hurt people to find out the truth doesn't seem like a great idea.
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May 7, 2020 22:26
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Letting the abusive paranoid maniac into your support group is a much worse idea though.
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May 7, 2020 23:40
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this chapter's secret title is The Problem With Cassidy
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May 8, 2020 00:39
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rannum posted:this chapter's secret title is We Need to Talk About Cassidy
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Tenebrais posted:Sleepless Domain: Really don't think excluding Cassidy is going to help matters. She already thinks they're conspiring against her, making her right probably isn't going to be good for the dynamic. Even if she totally deserves it. oh no, it's absolutely not going to help matters, and I can't wait 
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May 8, 2020 09:04
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Every magical girl protagonist needs a dark magical girl antagonist she can blame herself for creating (even/especially when it's not actually her fault). Cassidy is gonna flip poo poo, and it's gonna be great.
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May 8, 2020 09:10
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Sleepless Domain, Monster Pulse, and Never Satisfied seem to have decided it's time for drama all at once. Bad times for everyone! 
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FronzelNeekburm posted:Sleepless Domain, Monster Pulse, and Never Satisfied seem to have decided it's time for drama all at once. Bad times for everyone! I appreciate that Ray has been sufficient redeemed away from "weird creep" down to "hopless flirt", at the very least. Nancy doesn't come up with plans beyond "smash poo poo and scream," so whatever she's cooking up has gotta be a doozy. Also speaking of creepy, Bina has kind of ominously stopped acknowledging Abel and is speaking directly to Rixis like Abel's just an afterthought now.
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nine-gear crow posted:I appreciate that Ray has been sufficient redeemed away from "weird creep" down to "hopless flirt", at the very least. Nancy doesn't come up with plans beyond "smash poo poo and scream," so whatever she's cooking up has gotta be a doozy. Also speaking of creepy, Bina has kind of ominously stopped acknowledging Abel and is speaking directly to Rixis like Abel's just an afterthought now. She definitely is no longer expending mental energy trying to not be creepy right now, though.
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May 9, 2020 13:56
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If Cass isn't within earshot I'd be surprised and I will eat my hat that I definately have if she doesn't jump them having gone full Stan.
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ConanThe3rd posted:If Cass isn't within earshot I'd be surprised and I will eat my hat that I definately have if she doesn't jump them having gone full Stan. Nah, I reckon they're going to officially form a team together. Then Cass will see how their relationship has developed and get mad.
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ConanThe3rd posted:If Cass isn't within earshot I'd be surprised and I will eat my hat that I definately have if she doesn't jump them having gone full Stan. Hah even HP's eyes have little hearts in them.
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I very much appreciate how Devil's Candy is allowing this chapter's protagonist to remember that she has absolutely no stake in this conflict except pleasing people who dumped their problems on her, and just walk away.
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May 9, 2020 17:32
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There's one heck of a caboose on that new dress Agatha's got in Girl Genius.
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May 9, 2020 17:51
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She is super into Udine
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Julius CSAR posted:She is super into Udine "I see. So that was your type." "Can we not talk about that right now?" e. Now with proper links second e.: "So... Do you think you like her?" "It's only been a few days! Jeez!" Kokoro is 100% a disaster lesbian and I'm here for this 
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Shows how far out of touch I was with Girl Genius. I thought the little smoke knight girl was dead when I last read. Time for an archive binge.
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