Somewhere down the line we replaced gags and jokes with “relatability” as a stand-in for humor
Do webcomics need to have gags? I’m very much enjoying Runaway to The Stars, a Sci-Fi story with a non-humanoid protagonist and a TON of world building. There are parallels to Worf, who is both the Son of Mogh, and alsothe son of Nikolai and Helena Rozhenko.
20 years ago had a daily list of comics to check, now I just load xkcd once or twice a year to catch up and that’s it.
Almost exactly ditto, except add Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal and the Perry Bible Fellowship to the check a couple times a year list for me.
Hey, valid take, I’ll give you that.
It’s a gif that works so well for this sub.
It’s relevant to so many posts here.
The proliferation of computer tools has allowed many more people to do things they otherwise wouldn’t. I don’t think it’s just children or young people churning out cringe.
I find so many of them simply aren’t clever or inspired. It’s like there’s a hidden punchline of “Amirite??” and they’ll get laughs by attempting to be relatable.
Yep, exactly. The “AMIRITE!?!?” is exactly what I mean by “relatability” as a stand-in for humor.
IMO, the average quality of webcomics was always low.
Fr there were very few “good” ones back in the day.
Case in point: early SMBC
Sure, but I feel like what floated to the top wasn’t. XKCD, PBF, SMBC, even the narrative ongoings like Penny Arcade, 8bit Theater, Checkboard Nightmare and the like were never 100%, but regularly at least made strong attempts at humor, a noticeable difference to what floats to the top of the internet comic culture of today.
I agree that for every Penny-Arcade there were 2 Ctrl+Alt+Deletes. But now it feels like there are 100 CADs, 1000 comics somehow even worse in quality than that, and nobody is acknowledging the modern Penny-Arcades. (I’m not a huge PA fan actually I’m just using them as a useful instrument for the metaphor, please don’t get too hung up on the specific title named)
try this https://pirahxcx.neocities.org/comic-dump (click the image for more)
Every single one of you wankers, from the OP to the people talking shite, just please…
This is genuinely super awesome and I appreciate you sharing this.
Having said that, I don’t understand piefed at all, I thought it was supposed to be like comparable to Lemmy; any idea why can’t I find this post to save to my Lemmy? I can’t locate it in either !eurographicnovels@piefed.social or your user post history.
Ugh, that’s sad.
It works on desktop. Are you using an app to hit the Fediverse, perhaps?
Desktop, firefox.
Oh. Same!
I tried to ping you just now from a Monty Python song post.
Did you get that?
Yes, but as I said there, I can reach that community fine, but I can’t see the “WEBCOMIX!” post specifically
‘pandering’ is the word that comes to mind for me
There are great webcomics out there (try Ten Earth Shattering Blows, Dust ‘N’ Dread and Atomic Robo), but I think it’s the relateable ones that are easiest to find because people tend to share them more.
I don’t/didn’t really read webcomics when I was growing up, but there are a few artists I follow on Instagram who basically make webcomics as their posts on that app. They usually publish some kind of physical collection or book about them too.
There’s one I follow called @m_snail_art that has a long-running story going on about frog- and snail-people in a fantasy world.
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