Shitty Webcomics

Not that this is a surprise, but I totally called this.

One thing that confuses me is this is a gif (because it’s animated) but why does it look more colorful than sinfest’s color pages?

I’ve been avoiding making posts about this comic lately, just out of a vague sense of pity for a good artist who is stuck drawing substandard writing of his own making.  (That and, full disclosure, I’ve commissioned a couple drawings from him lately, they were on sale.)  If you’ve been keeping up with our blog, you know how common that is.  I don’t blame the artist, because becoming good at THE ART DRAWINGS is a lot of long years of work and passion.  Becoming good at writing is the exact same thing, but good/bad writing is so much less noticeable than good/bad art.  Shit I’ll still give that Twokinds dork credit for putting work into his art, even if his comic is unintentionally hilarious dipshittery.

I just wanted to say that I thought this specific page of My Life With Fel was actually sort of decent, because it’s not about the fake ass catgirl girlfriend mary sue wish fulfillment.  For this one singular page, it looks like it’s just a vaguely quaint self deprecating autobio webcomic about a furry artist who does a webcomic and works at a print shop.  It looks like the artist here is saying something legitimately honest about his life, and I find that more fascinating than all the boring flights of generic fancy that most webcomics go into.  Autobio comics are seen as “too easy” these days and rightfully so, the indie comics world is about 90% autobio comics.  But still, when someone decides to sit down and make a comic where they pick themselves apart, I think that’s really cool, and I think it’s good for the artist.

I’m sure it’ll go back into boring catgirl hijinx soon though.

(PS this is our 2,000th post, yay.)

se: this almost could have been a great commentary on how introverts are ostracized in our culture.

Dear Kenno Arkkan, we will cease posting about any of your comics forever if you send me one of those hug pillow cases with the naked raccoon girl on it.

We will stop saying things like this:

It’s already evident that this comic isn’t being written anymore, it’s just a few continuing ideas thrown together, either just before he starts sketching the pages, or some time during.

However, what’s now becoming evident is that his art is regressing.  He’s got talent and (more important than talent) skill, but you can see the passion fading.  Look at the last couple of panels, just plain odd facial structures that are simple, for him.  The figures throughout this page look cheap, not simple, not minimalistic, but cheap, done quickly and gotten over with.  It’s probably because the “story” is stuck in a rut, where he’s trying to exposit some shit happening, but either it’s to build up to future stuff that he will hope is more interesting to him, or he has no idea where the story is going and is simply hoping on a whim that it will go somewhere that sparks his interest in his own comic.

Here’s the thing, for people making comics and feeling they’re going nowhere.  If this is happening to you, webcomic author, quit immediately.  It’s a webcomic, indulge yourself.  You’re making a webcomic, there are no real expectations for you.  Make the exact comic you want, not the one that you think will maintain your followers and fanbase.  Drop your comic immediately, or find a way to end it quick, and go make the comic you REALLY feel like making.

Although I’m quite certain the comic he wants to be making is just more porn comics with the catgirl.  This is where it would be legitimately worthwhile to live in Japan, where an artist could probably still make a modest living making porn comics for the rest of his life.  Then again, the market for that in Japan would be a lot more competitive, so this guy’s comics would be too tame for them.

I almost ignored this one and didn’t bother posting it, until I got to the end.

Does a lack of social contract and gender roles just make everyone gay?

And what when that world meets this one?  I dunno, nothing probably?

Oh yeah, also?

Don’t just reference something as your joke.

“HEY REMEMBER THIS POPULAR THING?”

Yeah, we do.  Come up with something original.

One of the most important things about making a comedy webcomic:

Do not use a meme as your joke.  Don’t use it as your setup, don’t use it as your punchline.  Do not memespew.  It is lazy, it’s a sad attempt at jumping on a bandwagon, and it will be painfully unfunny in a matter of months, if not weeks, if not days.

So I thought, what’s a good comic that perfectly illustrates this rule in effect?

http://mylifewithfel.smackjeeves.com/comics/1646599/night-by-night/

My Life With Fel is taking a little break from comics about the webcomic author and his sexy catgirl girlfriend and how she milks his nut sack for hot cum on a daily basis.

Right now, they are uncovering the MYSTERIOUS CONSPIRACY about how catgirls are government experimental assassins, and the sexy lizard girl wants to go to some secret hiding place with Webcomic Author and sexy catgirl.

Also haha look a reference to a Team Fortress 2 video for no reason!  It is pretty funny to reference things without context lol sorandum spork.

This guy’s art is usually the only good thing about this, but the first several panels of this are really confusing, both in layout and composition.  I can give him a pass though, it’s still better than twokinds.

http://mylifewithfel.smackjeeves.com/comics/1632768/children/

“They’ve already reached central dogma.”

You know, it was a mistake when they did it in Eva, it’s WORSE here.

http://mylifewithfel.smackjeeves.com/comics/1591274/last-word/

Man this catgirl is a bitch.