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Author Topic: Webcomics that aren't MSPA  (Read 115900 times)

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Re: Webcomicry
« Reply #820 on: March 04, 2010, 02:24:45 AM »

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Re: Webcomicry
« Reply #821 on: March 04, 2010, 03:51:01 AM »

A book of Anime Club?

I am intrigued.
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Re: Webcomicry
« Reply #822 on: March 04, 2010, 09:17:09 AM »

Part 4 of Anime Club really blew me away.  Before I found it amusing and fun, but with four it suddenly jumped into that territory of earnest, deep storytelling.  Suddenly the characters were becoming more than just goofy stereotypes and were fleshing out how they felt and how their various histories.  And it's still fucking hilarious.

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Re: Webcomicry
« Reply #823 on: March 04, 2010, 07:55:52 PM »

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Re: Webcomicry
« Reply #824 on: March 04, 2010, 08:35:30 PM »

I love that first one to death.  Also Kate Beaton is making statues of the fat pony.

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Re: Webcomicry
« Reply #825 on: March 04, 2010, 10:05:01 PM »

Oh finally THAT'S what she really looks like.

I was beginning to think she was a crude drawing in real life.
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Re: Webcomicry
« Reply #826 on: March 08, 2010, 04:09:05 PM »

So Achewood has more or less become a premium comic. As far as I can tell, Onstad updates every other week and then spends the rest of his time updating in his premium section. I understand that this is like, his job now, but his comic is only good enough to have a premium section in the first place because of the audience he built from a free comic. I hate it when webcomic authors do this.
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Re: Webcomicry
« Reply #827 on: March 08, 2010, 04:39:18 PM »

If you like the comic, go ahead and pay for it.  If you don't, don't.  It's business.  Just don't bitch about it or try to claim that 1/5 of a monthly WoW subscription is too much money.
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Re: Webcomicry
« Reply #828 on: March 08, 2010, 04:45:21 PM »

Well, if any webcomic's worth paying for, it's Achewood.
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Re: Webcomicry
« Reply #829 on: March 08, 2010, 05:13:33 PM »

So Achewood has more or less become a premium comic. As far as I can tell, Onstad updates every other week and then spends the rest of his time updating in his premium section. I understand that this is like, his job now, but his comic is only good enough to have a premium section in the first place because of the audience he built from a free comic. I hate it when webcomic authors do this.

No, it really hasn't. The Achewood fanflow gets updated just about as often as the actual strip does; it's just that he usually posts two or three things more or less simultaneously whenever he updates, and half of those are just previews of upcoming strips or merchandise that's going to be appearing in the store soon.

You might think I'm joking. Let's compare the month of February: he posted five comic strips. 02/02, 02/06, 02/16, 02/22, 02/28.

Here are the fanflow updates for February.
02/02—New Strip: Two Hearts Beat As One
02/06—New Strip: Doppelganger
02/06—Round up of loose ends! (miscellaneous drawings and text; maybe consider this Half A Comic)
02/11—a powerpoint slideshow he presented at some talk somewhere
02/16—New Strip: Phillipe, Entrepreneur
02/16—a depiction of Ray wearing Shiatsu Donkey Weights
02/16—planning sketches for the construction of the 02/16 strip
02/22—New Strip: Shirley Temple
02/22—oblique joke revolving around an altered screenshot of Twitter's adspace
02/22—what basically amounts to a Roast Beef blog entry
02/23—You know those jumbles in newspapers that are offensively easy? That involve, like, six individual words, which (when solved) will give you the six letters to a seventh word? Ray made one, and that's what premium members are paying for today.
02/28—New Strip: Find Something You Like and Copy It
02/28—what basically amounts to a Ray blog entry

Cut the new strips (which were posted simultaneously to their appearance on the main site), and that's 8 updates. Four of the remainder are almost contemptuously vacuous. Of the remaining four, two are basically just some stuff Onstad had lying around. That leaves two entries of actual substance, but are actually just blog updates behind a pay wall.

Yeah, so I don't know what the fuck Onstad's up to, either. Some of the subscribers are kind of hoping he's secretly putting his animation plans that he'd mentioned about a year ago into effect. Otherwise I think we're all starting to feel a bit like rubes.
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Re: Webcomicry
« Reply #830 on: March 08, 2010, 05:41:08 PM »

This reminds me that I meant to figure out why I had an 8$ yearly recurring paypal payment to Achewater Publishing that just went off. I guess that's from when I subscribed to the subscriber-only archive (why the hell does that even still exist anyway now that the fanflow's there?), but that thing is actually 12$.

I gotta e-mail the 'stad and figure out what exactly that eight bucks bought me.
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Re: Webcomicry
« Reply #831 on: March 08, 2010, 06:43:59 PM »

I forget where I got the link (I think from The Meek), but Sailor Twain has proved to be surprisingly excellent.
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Re: Webcomicry
« Reply #832 on: March 08, 2010, 06:56:32 PM »

Aww.  I was expecting something completely different.
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Re: Webcomicry
« Reply #833 on: March 08, 2010, 07:41:53 PM »

Yeah I don't begrudge anybody for doing a full-premium webcomic.  Those guys don't owe you shit.

Charging a premium and not delivering is pretty :whoops: of course though.  I wouldn't put it over Onstad's general sense of humor to be doing it on purpose too.
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Re: Webcomicry
« Reply #834 on: March 08, 2010, 08:25:32 PM »

Aww.  I was expecting something completely different.

I probably expected the same thing!
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Re: Webcomicry
« Reply #835 on: March 08, 2010, 09:31:08 PM »

The internet has conditioned me to expect something very specific when "Sailor" is capitalized and followed by an identifier as part of a name of something, okay
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Re: Webcomicry
« Reply #836 on: March 08, 2010, 11:48:54 PM »

Aww.  I was expecting something completely different.

I probably expected the same thing!

Was it Mark Twain dressed as Sailor Moon being silly as well as clever?
Because I'd read the shit out of that and was severely disappointed when I clicked the link.
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Re: Webcomicry
« Reply #837 on: March 09, 2010, 04:06:13 AM »

When I was in high school, I made a comic about the founders of Bolshevism as Sailor Scouts. Imagine a sailor scout with Lenin's or Trotsky's face. 

No, I was not one of those high school socialists.
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Re: Webcomicry
« Reply #838 on: March 13, 2010, 05:47:31 AM »

I'm sorry, Dr. McNinja, but this is the worst panel layout imaginable. 15 perfectly aligned tiny little drawings? That's almost too much work to read. Not to mention that the previous page only had two panels. You could easily stuck the first four panels onto the ass end of page 39, which would balance things out and also would've created a sense of suspense.

ADDENDUM: Oh Bartholomew!
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Re: Webcomicry
« Reply #839 on: March 23, 2010, 09:21:35 AM »

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