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Just Offscreen
Jun 29, 2006

We must hope that our current selves will one day step aside to make room for better versions of us.
Webcomics are fun and good until they arent.

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Just Offscreen
Jun 29, 2006

We must hope that our current selves will one day step aside to make room for better versions of us.

the old ceremony posted:

stylistic fads happen across all art forms, the stephen universe style is just the art nouveau of the 21st century

What I wouldn't give for art nouveau to be the current style.

Just Offscreen
Jun 29, 2006

We must hope that our current selves will one day step aside to make room for better versions of us.
I used to print them off and tuck them away in my high school binder to re-read during study hall.

That and Bob and George. And Real Life.

gently caress.

Just Offscreen
Jun 29, 2006

We must hope that our current selves will one day step aside to make room for better versions of us.
I know it doesn't get a whole lot of attention because it updates fairly slowly, but I have to give Stonebreaker props for being consistently good.

Just Offscreen
Jun 29, 2006

We must hope that our current selves will one day step aside to make room for better versions of us.
I think Spike is my favorite webcomics person- shes likable and ultra competent, and I wish we had more people from whatever bizarro version of the webcomics industry she came from.

Just Offscreen fucked around with this message at 19:30 on Oct 5, 2017

Just Offscreen
Jun 29, 2006

We must hope that our current selves will one day step aside to make room for better versions of us.
That's why he has to ruin it. He is a ruiner.

Just Offscreen
Jun 29, 2006

We must hope that our current selves will one day step aside to make room for better versions of us.

Cat Mattress posted:

Tim Jones travel in the distant past, accidentally causes the invasion of the British Islands by the Finno-Korean empire in 1066, Tackleford is never founded and all the Bobbins/SGR/BM characters are retconned out of existence.

Except for Tim Jones himself of course. It's all pretty pointless if he's not made to wallow in the terribleness he has wrought.

Just Offscreen
Jun 29, 2006

We must hope that our current selves will one day step aside to make room for better versions of us.

Yeah that... Could have been handled better. It's such a shame because legitimate critique of lack of diversity is now completely mired in pointless and useless drama that's going to do nothing good for anyone.

Just Offscreen
Jun 29, 2006

We must hope that our current selves will one day step aside to make room for better versions of us.
This is asinine- doesn't he still have the doctor McNinja website? I realize this is a new set of series but it seems like a waste to not utilize it

Just Offscreen
Jun 29, 2006

We must hope that our current selves will one day step aside to make room for better versions of us.

Synthbuttrange posted:

Yeah he was also the guy running slipshine.

Was? Did they give him the boot? Come to think of it i have no idea who actually runs the place.

Just Offscreen
Jun 29, 2006

We must hope that our current selves will one day step aside to make room for better versions of us.

TwoPair posted:

Or am I wrong and Slipshine was some entirely other gross endeavor?

Slipshine owns get over yourself.

Just Offscreen
Jun 29, 2006

We must hope that our current selves will one day step aside to make room for better versions of us.

TwoPair posted:

To each their own I guess but drawn porn just always seems gross to me. Perhaps I am the prude in the wrong.

See I often feel the opposite- live action stuff too often is exploitive, demeaning, and skeevy. With comics if you find good authors or groups of authors (specifically like the ones that rejected Josh's submissions) it's much more enjoyable.

Just Offscreen
Jun 29, 2006

We must hope that our current selves will one day step aside to make room for better versions of us.

Xarbala posted:

People find Oglaf erotic?

I mean some folks will get off to anything, but the sex is definitely in service of the jokes as opposed to something like Alfie.

Just Offscreen
Jun 29, 2006

We must hope that our current selves will one day step aside to make room for better versions of us.

Wrist Watch posted:

I can see people enjoying it during an archive binge or something but that sounds miserable to sit through, especially given that the comic appears to have an actual story it's trying to tell that apparently constantly gets put on hold for a month or two so people can gently caress.

Well I mean you could use the same argument for any action heavy scene lasting longer than four pages or so.

Just Offscreen
Jun 29, 2006

We must hope that our current selves will one day step aside to make room for better versions of us.
Same. Which is a real shame because Willis seems like a nice guy. I do wish you would just start from scratch.

Just Offscreen
Jun 29, 2006

We must hope that our current selves will one day step aside to make room for better versions of us.
Jess Fink won an Ignatz award- good for her! It's nice to see web based creators getting recognition.

Just Offscreen
Jun 29, 2006

We must hope that our current selves will one day step aside to make room for better versions of us.
Or post something really loving stupid that you knew was going to get you perma'd.

Again.

Just Offscreen
Jun 29, 2006

We must hope that our current selves will one day step aside to make room for better versions of us.
Oglaf what the gently caress

Just Offscreen
Jun 29, 2006

We must hope that our current selves will one day step aside to make room for better versions of us.

Pistol_Pete posted:

Oh hey, after yesterday's cliffhanger the one thing I really wanted was a segue into Desmond loving Fishman.

http://www.scarygoround.com/?date=20171201

Fotheringay loving despairs in panel four.

Just Offscreen
Jun 29, 2006

We must hope that our current selves will one day step aside to make room for better versions of us.

punk rebel ecks posted:

So I want an adventure type webcomic with continuity. What would you all recommend?

Kill six billion demons
Rice boy/vattu
The property of hate
Cassiopea quinn
Mare inturnum
Stonebreaker
Cucumber quest

Just Offscreen fucked around with this message at 23:44 on Dec 24, 2017

Just Offscreen
Jun 29, 2006

We must hope that our current selves will one day step aside to make room for better versions of us.

World Famous W posted:

Digger

Best of all its finished.

gently caress yes read digger.

Just Offscreen
Jun 29, 2006

We must hope that our current selves will one day step aside to make room for better versions of us.

wiegieman posted:

On the internet, just like everywhere else, the worst people have all the money.

That's being overly harsh. Jeph is hardly the worst- not by a long shot.

At worst, he is like, the Denny's of webcomics. And I mean that as no insult. For most it's perfectly serviceable but never exactly push the format forward.

Also Mods please change my name to The Denny's of Webcomics.

Just Offscreen
Jun 29, 2006

We must hope that our current selves will one day step aside to make room for better versions of us.

Typical Pubbie posted:

Questionable Content isn't good for webcomics. People make it out to be this easily accessible, mellow read when it's actually terrible as an introduction to the format. It's nearly 4000 pages long and counting, the art is abysmal, the archive exists only in name (just a scrolling numerical list of pages), the website is ugly and partially broken on mobile. The writing is never better than mediocre. The comic isn't part of a 'hive' so it doesn't drive traffic to other comics. It sucks up enormous amounts of money and reader time. It doesn't expand the industry, it crowds it out.

You need to calm down- a lot of people including myself have read it at one point or another, and it was a fairly good intro the the slice of life sorta stuff that I was into at the time...fourteen years ago. It's ancient as far as the industry is concerned, and I don't see it going anywhere or aspiring to more than "milquetoast." I can't really fault Jeph for falling into a groove of making content for people willing the give him cash for it.

I think webcomics are doing just fine with old fairly boring comics like that on the playing field. If it wasn't QC it would be some other inoffensive long run comic- it's how things work in pretty much any media. They make not promote creativity in the medium, but you might as well complain that trees crowd out saplings.

Emrikol posted:

I think they're lamenting that mediocre things make good money, while good things make mediocre money.

So like...human nature, then?

Just Offscreen fucked around with this message at 21:59 on Dec 29, 2017

Just Offscreen
Jun 29, 2006

We must hope that our current selves will one day step aside to make room for better versions of us.

Regy Rusty posted:

My first webcomic was Megatokyo

:shepicide:

Gotcha beat- I had a couple of the books for awhile.

Anyone else remember Real Life?

Just Offscreen
Jun 29, 2006

We must hope that our current selves will one day step aside to make room for better versions of us.

FunkyAl posted:

i thought the best thing you can do with zombies and other horrors is chase them around an abandoned castle with a giant butterfly net

So you have played Bloodborne then

Just Offscreen
Jun 29, 2006

We must hope that our current selves will one day step aside to make room for better versions of us.

poo poo I came in here to post this too. Its well worth a watch if you like Sonic 2.

Just Offscreen
Jun 29, 2006

We must hope that our current selves will one day step aside to make room for better versions of us.

AriadneThread posted:

subscribe to them via PayPal for $20 a month for the project of 'being alive' if you thought they were valuable enough person to keep alive.

No that doesn't sound emotionally manipulative at all.

In equal measure I hope that they were able to get the help they needed and that we never hear from them again.

Just Offscreen
Jun 29, 2006

We must hope that our current selves will one day step aside to make room for better versions of us.
Can anybody tell me the name of a webcomic short story I ran across some years back? It was all in shades of blue and it was a short story about a man who crashed in the mountains and used a zombie as an allegory for cannibalism.

Just Offscreen
Jun 29, 2006

We must hope that our current selves will one day step aside to make room for better versions of us.

Yaaay thank you

Just Offscreen
Jun 29, 2006

We must hope that our current selves will one day step aside to make room for better versions of us.

nimby posted:

Agatha is going to turn out to be her own mother after a time travel gently caress-up.

How the gently caress would that even work- she donates an egg through steampunk wizardry or some poo poo like that? I don't read GG.

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Just Offscreen
Jun 29, 2006

We must hope that our current selves will one day step aside to make room for better versions of us.
Nah its still going but I just can't generate the give-a-shits about the characters to keep reading.

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