Bad webcomics

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My brief list of Bad webcomic traits i see way too much:

-art and speech that will be dated in 3 months
-no plot beyond soapboxing
-if you remove the speech bubbles the illustrations make no sense aka the panels are there just to look pretty and yknow, not convey actual story
-author takes themselves too seriously
-i can excuse bad art especially from newbies but some take it too far (this does not apply for sonic themed cartoons because.. reasons)
-poor paneling that either makes no sense or the gutter itself just looks bad. Idk why but this bothers me
-over dramatica
-that one 2000s webcomic style that involves busty women with strange hair dye, a cliche fantasy setting and fantastic plastic esque rendering with unharmonized, clashy colors
-furry but its either just anime girls with whiskers and ears or the jarring semi cartoon style that somehow always ends up having a sideblog for obscure fetish content
-being floraverse or assigned male
-“I have depression and all my gags revolve around Life beating me haha” the comic
-relateable
-gamer humor
-please for the love of god use an actual comic font. You cant go wrong with Backissues, you cant go right with helvetica. If thats too mainstream then make your own font, its basically free
-people who dont announce their hiatus, and they dont spend their hiatus actually creating new content. Like if you vanish for 5 months at least toss a little bonus content at the audience when they get back
-people who pride themselves in being a webcomic guru because they have a Patreon and get views, but the actual comic is 4 panels a week, hack garbage that anyone could make
- and then they complain that it is such hard work while if you look at publisher standards many people make far more complex pages once a day without whining

Sorry I’m passionate about comics and this little niche industry is filled with hot messes
 
Benine Bovine said:
My brief list of Bad webcomic traits i see way too much:

-art and speech that will be dated in 3 months
-no plot beyond soapboxing
-if you remove the speech bubbles the illustrations make no sense aka the panels are there just to look pretty and yknow, not convey actual story
-author takes themselves too seriously
-i can excuse bad art especially from newbies but some take it too far (this does not apply for sonic themed cartoons because.. reasons)
-poor paneling that either makes no sense or the gutter itself just looks bad. Idk why but this bothers me
-over dramatica
-that one 2000s webcomic style that involves busty women with strange hair dye, a cliche fantasy setting and fantastic plastic esque rendering with unharmonized, clashy colors
-furry but its either just anime girls with whiskers and ears or the jarring semi cartoon style that somehow always ends up having a sideblog for obscure fetish content
-being floraverse or assigned male
-“I have depression and all my gags revolve around Life beating me haha” the comic
-relateable
-gamer humor
-please for the love of god use an actual comic font. You cant go wrong with Backissues, you cant go right with helvetica. If thats too mainstream then make your own font, its basically free
-people who dont announce their hiatus, and they dont spend their hiatus actually creating new content. Like if you vanish for 5 months at least toss a little bonus content at the audience when they get back
-people who pride themselves in being a webcomic guru because they have a Patreon and get views, but the actual comic is 4 panels a week, hack garbage that anyone could make
- and then they complain that it is such hard work while if you look at publisher standards many people make far more complex pages once a day without whining

Sorry I’m passionate about comics and this little niche industry is filled with hot messes
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God, I remember when the worst trope in webcomics was the "two-guys-sitting-on-a-couch-playing-video-games" thing. Didn't know how good we had it back then.
 
By The Book. It's kind of like Order Of The Stick but with a cast of naked furries and Chris Chan tier textwalls obscuring two thirds of each panel.
 
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kill me
 
Tailypo said:
No mention of Teahouse yet?

This shit falls into every yaoi cliche and then some. The characters are obnoxious manchildren with no likable qualities, the writing is on a par with that of a terrible soap opera, and one of the main characters has a creepy incest obsession with his twin sister. The story is apparently set during the Victorian period, yet has a character who wears piercings and punk attire.

The art is actually pretty good, especially compared to some of the other examples shown here. However, it's often too saturated and can be eye-straining to some people.

My absolute favorite moment in this comic is the unintentional hilarity of this scene. What could be more romantic than butt plugs?

Also, one of the creators has worked on the Adventure Time comics.
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Didn't like this from the start because human trafficking is not kawaii, and inconsistent human trafficking doesn't even make for a good story. They were trying too hard to be Japanese-But-Not, with the obvious incest stuff and other heavy handed cliches. But the art is decent enough, and sexual slavery is a lot of yaoi fans' kink, so there was room for improvement within the genre. Their mistake was engaging with their readers. Once they got drowned in complaints about muh representation and muh not enough oppressed minorities (how sex slaves aren't oppressed enough for them idk, but maybe they're British), getting attacked and feeling the need to defend themselves, that must have been exhausting and leeched valuable time and effort they could have used to think of future, better stories. The sooner that authors and artists of escapist fantasy and fiction in general learn that it's counterproductive to try and reason with their SJW readers, or any readers usually, the better. The loudest fans are always the craziest, banking on the casual readers who don't engage is wiser.

The last yaoi one I saw was refreshingly naive and straight-forward, a juvenile delinquent emo gets fucked by a one-eyed cowboy. It's nostalgic, because where do you still find emos and Broke Back Mountain references these days? I wouldn't call it good, but it's not on the bad webcomics list yet: Spurs and Stripes
 
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bitchtitsdontcount said:
Didn't like this from the start because human trafficking is not kawaii, and inconsistent human trafficking doesn't even make for a good story. They were trying too hard to be Japanese-But-Not, with the obvious incest stuff and other heavy handed cliches. But the art is decent enough, and sexual slavery is a lot of yaoi fans' kink, so there was room for improvement within the genre. Their mistake was engaging with their readers. Once they got drowned in complaints about muh representation and muh not enough oppressed minorities (how sex slaves aren't oppressed enough for them idk, but maybe they're British), getting attacked and feeling the need to defend themselves, that must have been exhausting and leeched valuable time and effort they could have used to think of future, better stories. The sooner that authors and artists of escapist fantasy and fiction in general learn that it's counterproductive to try and reason with their SJW readers, or any readers usually, the better. The loudest fans are always the craziest, banking on the casual readers who don't engage is wiser.

The last yaoi one I saw was refreshingly naive and straight-forward, a juvenile delinquent emo gets fucked by a one-eyed cowboy. It's nostalgic, because where do you still find emos and Broke Back Mountain references these days? I wouldn't call it good, but it's not on the bad webcomics list yet: Spurs and Stripes
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I really enjoyed the art in it's earlier days and the flashbacks with Linius were cute. I think if it was about a legal brothel where the prostitutes were free to go about their lives, it would be less creepy.
 
http://rainlgbt.smackjeeves.com/

I've been wondering if I should make a post on this one for a while. It manages to (for the most part) avoid strawmanning. But it has a massive show vs tell issue, characters will frequently go into wall of text speeches, and so often I found myself thinking 'People don't talk like this!' Most of the story is just endless walls of exposition, and scenes that could have been interesting to see aren't shown to us, we're just told about them after the fact. Beyond the initial few characters, everyone else is pretty devoid of personality and could be described just by which LGBT identity they have.

Everyone has the same face (which is a personal pet peeve of mine), and here's how much the art has improved in the 7+ years the comic's been posted:
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If anything, it's gotten worse. In the beginning, there were different angles and poses, even a background occasionally, but now it's basically just a bunch of talking heads that spew out walls of text.
 
Is the characters not having noses intentional?
 
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