>webcomics are a sea of amateur-hour oddities
>no popular channels have dove into the depths of bizarre webcomics that float in the ether of the internet
>most remain unnoticed
Which one is it for you?
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Frick of and talk about real comics, shill.
Webcomics were taking off a decade ago but this was ruined by Homestuck as a shitty leader. I will fix this
>Projecting shill
The only way you could reasonably make a web video series on webcomics is if you go around shitting on all of them. It would be like Josh Strife Hayes but for webcomics rather than MMOs. The problem is that Josh Strife Hayes is amusing because we're talking about big corporations trying to milk money out of people with the laziest production and maintenance possible. Webcomics aren't produced by corporations and aren't full of DLC trying to take your money. They're typically done by one person who draws/writes in their free time, and it just feels mean-spirited to shit all over them for entertaining people as a hobby. It comes off as very troll-like. I've seen some forums which try to catalog all the webcomics, and unsurprisingly, they tend to be troll forums who are dedicated to just shitting over as many as they can find.
You could try to highlight the good webcomics, but you'll find that there are very few of them, and most already get physical print media.
>it would be mean spirited
Putting something online means you have to be ready for the internet to see it, and that includes critique. I agree the troll ones go too far. They act like that shit shouldn't exist when it's fine it does. Just need to take the piss out of it.
The problem is that, if you're making Youtube videos, you want to make them entertaining. Saying "I found this random webcomic at URL and here's what it looks like" isn't going to be entertaining. Nobody is going to care.
That means you either need to make it entertaining. One way is to look around and only make videos of the interesting webcomics. But you're going to find that there are only a few webcomics which are actually interesting, meaning you basically never get to put out videos since you're always busy diving through Las Lindas-style archives only to realize the end result is pretty junk. The other option is to just shit on the bad webcomics you run across, which will give you content, but it's effectively the same as the trolls shitting all over every bad piece of content on the internet.
It would be good if people could just be amused by a Youtube video and then just look through the comic on their own terms, but we know that people will instead just head over to the comic and troll the frick out of it just because that's what they saw the Youtube video doing. They'll figure that's a fine way to treat the webcomic artist. Which is pretty much the same result as a Something Awful forum thread, back when they were relevant (and still alive).
Reminds me this is basically how the your webcomic is bad and you should feel bad blog fell apart. At some point it became more of a way to point out targets for trolling and stirring up drama over petty shit, basically another early strain of lolcow farming. Shitting on mostly amateurs messing around in their free time for not reaching some insane pro standards also sucks once you stop and think about it.
A lot of people don't understand good critique takes effort and instead fall back on the excuse of "I'm just being brutally honest" to justify being an asshat with a tvtropes checklist level of analysis.
Webcomics tend to be so niche that you either are the target reader for that kind of story or you just drop it and find something catered to you.
Or you find something that's as weird as Jack or Kit n Kay Boodle that you share for shock value. But that well has dried.
That well is full who going to drink from a poisoned well
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Nicktoons: Return of the Robots is an example I recall besides Bleedman's stuff.
Never heard of it. This it?
That's the one. It was written in Spanish, and the creator got scammed by English translators who weren't even fluent in English. It sometimes give hilarious dialogue.
Are you asking for bad webcomics or good ones?
One man's bad webcomic is another's bookmark. I don't know just weird shit no one talks about but would turn heads. Good or bad.
Guess It Hurts!! fits then. There's definitely a whole lot of weird shit in it, though I mean that in a good way.
Bad, obviously. There's no such thing as a good webcomic.
I remember reading this. Looks like the site is completely borked and most chapters are missing. But it's available for some kindle subscription. Kind of a shame, I remember it being pretty decent. Except I wouldn't call an anthro tiger with a big schnozz a "catgirl". It's honestly kind of saw how older webcomics have this tendency to completely disappear, though that's also down to how independent webcomics are. Which, in turn, is probably why they're incredibly niche. People are used to aggregator sites these days. Webcomics seem to have peaked far too early to truly grow into the internet mass market, especially when we consider how well Webtoons is doing. Then again, most stuff on Webtoons is more moronic than even the edgiest of early 2000's webcomics were.
I've occasionally considered making a webcomic YouTube channel. But that would take effort and skill, which I lack.
Why do you consider webtoon seperate from webcomics? Webtoon is simply webcomics in a format designed to be read on phones. The huge success of webtoon shows we are in the golden age of webcomics right now.
I don't and I do. Let me explain. The comics on Webtoons are webcomics. But Webtoons as a site, most of the comics on there, and most of its audience stem from a different culture than what I'd call "traditional" webcomics. So they're not exactly an aggregator site for all webcomics. But I do suppose we're in somewhat of a Golden Age for webcomics, considering that there are more talented artists on the internet than ever before, and I'm sure there are more people actually making webcomics full time. Way back when that was basically only Penny Arcade, which I guess also shows how things developed. Webcomics used to be so firmly a nerd space that a huge amount of webcomics were either gamer comics or furry comics. Meanwhile Webtoons grew big on romance.
El Goonish Shive. 4 hour essay out of it, easy.