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)
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)